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Feeling French?

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By Greer Wylder
September 09, 2016

By Asma Mohammed La Creperie Cafe in Long Beach offers one of the most expansive crepe menus in the area! The cafe offers 10 types of savory breakfast crepes, 12 dinner crepes, and 15 different dessert crepes, for which they are most famous. The dessert crepes include tiramisu which is a vanilla crepe filled with a slice of tiramisu and topped with a sweet creme anglaise, chocolate powder, whipped cream, chocolate drizzle, and vanilla ice cream. Another popular flavor is red velvet which is a strawberry crepe filled with a slice of red velvet cake, strawberries, chocolate syrup, creamed cheese…

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Juice it Up! Tasty Treat Combos

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By Greer Wylder
September 08, 2016

Juice It Up!, a popular raw juice bar and hand-crafted smoothie chain just launched Tasty Treat Combos featuring three new, kid-friendly smoothies paired with a bag of chips or pretzel bites, along with a glow in the dark wrist band. Designed with kids 12 and under in mind, the three new smoothies, served in 12 oz. portions, are both dairy and gluten free. Perfect as an after-school snack or a sports practice, all three new Tasty Treat smoothies fulfill nearly two servings of fruits, while the Green Monster Smoothie also features a full serving of veggies. The new smoothie options…

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Festival Of Children Celebrates 15 Years

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By Greer Wylder
September 07, 2016

For the past 15 years in September, Festival of Children has celebrated children with a charity outreach event held every weekend, in conjunction with National Child Awareness Month, at South Coast Plaza. The month-long Festival offers free family activities and events, including live music and dance performances, a grand scale back-to-school fashion show by South Coast Plaza retailers, including Macy’s, arts and crafts, animal shows, face painting, and more, while showcasing over 75 youth-serving organizations. Ongoing activities include: Canstruction OC: Now through Sept. 26 – You can view 16 amazing structures made entirely out of canned goods. At the conclusion of…

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The MOBILE ESCAPE room – THE ESCAPE BUS

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By Greer Wylder
September 07, 2016

The Escape Bus, Orange County’s first mobile escape room, is launching this weekend on Sept. 10-11 in front of 4th Street Market in Downtown Santa Ana. The hacking-themed escape game "Firewall" will be ready to challenge its first teams. It’s giving gamers and thrill-seekers a new immersive, interactive experience. In the futuristic game, Firewall,  players are immersed into an elite hacker consortium – they have been captured into a maximum-security transport, and must work together to beat the bus, or spend the rest of their days in a tiny cell. To create The Escape Bus, a 30-foot Bluebird former passenger…

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Pop-singer Alessia Cara at Irvine Spectrum

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By Greer Wylder
September 06, 2016

By Asma Mohammed Everyone is excited for the upcoming school year, and Irvine Spectrum Center sent summer out with a bang! The Irvine Spectrum hosted a back to school shopping party, a three day event called Endless Summer Festival which featured an acoustic set from pop-singer Alessia Cara on the evening of August 19. The popstar released her first studio album, "Know-It-All" on November 2013 and has had her hit singles featured on multiple radio stations. More than 4,000 fans showed up to attend her free concert which was hosted by Irvine Spectrum as well as 102.7 KIIS-FM. Alessia warmed…

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