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Agree on Benjie's! Jerry's across from South Coast Plaza has actually gotten a lot better in the last few years - better service and food. Great matzo-ball soup. A bit expensive (although dirt cheap compared to all the places around it), but huge selection and open really late (unlike...

Looking again. Anyone? Also open to Northpark courts in evening, although those get pretty crowded. David

Thanks for the suggestions. Of course, the management company is closed today - and probably Friday. The openers work fine, but I'll definitely have them checked out just to be safe!

Hi all. I need some help with a home repair for a Northpark 2000 Huntington Plan 3C (Richmond American). This being the beginning of a long, holiday weekend, of course part of our house decided to destroy itself. One of our garage doors has had a bit of a crack along the top for a few months...

Cool thing about Living Spaces: we're getting the furniture delivered today. In addition to calling us last night to give us a 2-hour window, I just got an email from them with a link to their delivery website. It shows all the scheduled deliveries for the truck with our stuff and shows the...

My wife and I were just looking for nice, but relatively inexpensive (better than Ikea, much cheaper than Ethan Allan) family-room furniture in the last week. Our favorites (Wickes, Krause's) were also gone. After lots of web browsing and walking around, we also ended up with Living Spaces. In...

I was wondering if anyone has gone to the day spa at the Orchard Hills plaza and could comment on it. I've sent my wife to Burke Williams a couple of times (Mission Viejo and Santa Monica), but Bellagio is a whole lot closer. It seems, just from the size, that it wouldn't have all the facilities...

Yeah - I think the front/side/courtyard of the plan 3 is the nicest of all the houses, but the back is just a big, flat, ugly thing.

Thanks for the reply. I know Smarthome very well! I do agree, though, that passive shade is the best, first step (and will actually let me see the TV in the family room during the day!). I've attached a picture of the back of the house. You can see the remains of a couple of broken sun shades...

Hi all. I wanted to start a discussion of issues related to home automation and heating and cooling. My house, built in 2000, in Northpark, has separate zones for AC/Heat for upstairs and downstairs. Unfortunately, we've been fighting constantly with thermostats and vents and window shades to...

I also thought this was bizarre. It should take 2/3 or 3/4 to change the Constitution! What the guy said yesterday morning on Handel was that it take 2/3 to modify the Constitution, but only simple majority to append it. He claimed that 8 didn't change anything in the existing Constitution, it...

Very eloquently put :^) Seriously, it is really bumming me out that this intolerance is still so widespread. I'm not gay, but I was going to be going to a gay wedding, which, I assume, is on hold. One, small bright spot, especially for people on this website, is that Prop 8 lost in...

Hi all. My wife and I live a couple of blocks from the Orchard Hills plaza, so I thought I'd start a topic about the food there. So far we've liked Zov's for breakfast, dinner, dessert, and drinks. I wish it was a little less expensive so we could go there more often. We've been pretty...

My wife and I were right near the new plaza on Sunday afternoon, so we tried to check it out. The place was totally mobbed. Not a single parking spot open! Also, the way you have to go in from Alton instead of Jamboree, you are forced to drive past the market, which took forever. Really bad...

That's where my wife went, too. Very happy with the place. She said there were people in the waiting room who had traveled from all over the country just to go there! This was almost 10 years ago. I can only imagine it's even better now. David