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Orange Coast magazine informs local community-ponderers on the newsworthy people, the time-and-space-altering businesses, and the spirited events happening in Southern California. The numerous features, profile pieces, and letters to the editor will provide a plethora of prose for literature buffs to absorb by pressing an issue against the forehead. Each month, magazine-flippers can browse to their cranial cortex's content with the magazine's various informative sections. Find a scintillating seafood restaurant by turning to the dining section, or check out the wardrobe wonderness of the O.C. Style section. The magazine can even provide friendship to homesick airplane passengers during the 28-hour around-the-world flight from San Diego to Sacramento.

Named one of the 2010 finalists for Best Metropolitan/Consumer Magazine by Western Publishing Association, Orange Coast magazine boasts an engaging editorial voice and bright, hi-res photography, with this month's Best of 2010 cover featuring a glowing graphic of candy-coated yogurt.