Jul 7 2010

The best SoCal food in Twitter pictures

Want to find the best eats and drinks in Southern California? Forget all those contests and competitions. Twitter is full of photo-shooting culinary connoisseurs. I took a second to telepathically ask those tweeting foodies to identify the ultimate SoCal consumables. Here is how they responded. Let’s start with the purest beverage, as posted by Aaryn Costello (@shaycostello) of Los Angeles. She calls it the “Best water ever.”

LOS ANGELES CA
@sexydionboo: the best JUICE in the world cuh offtops (Jul 6, 1:48pm)

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@iPiistol: Best mac n cheese ever.. N dnt get me started on the chiken!!! (Jul 6, 2:40pm)

BURBANK, CA
@PhotoLynch: I'm at Gary Brica best burgers in Burbank supposedly. #burgers #Burbank #food (Jul 6, 3:56pm)

LOS ANGELES
@TylerLogan:
The best frappé ever from the Cornerstone Cafe here down at Cornerstone Church San Diego! (Jul 6, 4:52pm)

LA HABRA
@Mishapalooza: My grandpa came to visit from japan today and made me the best fried rice of my life!
(Jul 6, 5:58pm)

LOS ANGELES
@KirstinLorin: Whole Foods Cafeteria is the best #ifanyonewantsanautograph (Jul 6, 6:06pm)

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Jul 6 2010

The crowd caught #smdayoc in pictures

If you bring people together to celebrate social media, you can expect a stream of event-related tweets, videos and images. That’s exactly what came out of #smdayoc. It was a meetup organized and hosted last week by my employer, The Orange County Register, as part of Mashable’s global Social Media Day event. Disclosures: I helped to pull this event together and the Register is not affiliated with this blog. With that, I present my own tweeted photo of Register Publisher Terry Horne. Please excuse him for blocking the view of the food trucks.

The guy blocking food trucks is Register publisher Terry Horne

Orange County, CA
@AngelsFanHolls: Original printing press @OCReggie used until 1976! #smdayoc (Jun 30, 4:46pm)

IRVINE, CALIF.
@IrvineChamber: 4th largest gathering! Go #oc! #smdayoc. (Jun 30, 3:31pm)

Orange County, CA
@deanhopkins: Registration line for #SMDAYOC at @OCReggie - (Jun 30, 3:17pm)

FULLERTON, THE ORANGE COUNTY
@roxannima: this is for @suzbroughton #smdayoc (Jun 30, 4:08pm)

Orange, CA
@tomarthur: #smdayOC exciting for everyone but the fire marshal. Overflow crowd! (Jun 30, 3:23pm)

Newport Beach, CA
@DanielaBolzmann: @markgundlach thanks for being such a great @Symbaloo fan! #smdayoc (Jun 30, 3:20pm)

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Jul 5 2010

Twitter captures unique SoCal fireworks

On Independenc Day, it’s hard to beat Southern California for its diversity of locations for fireworks shows. For example, take a look at this image of fireworks by the Queen Mary from T-Bone Durfee (@ErinGoBORO) of Los Angeles. According to T-Bone’s tweet, the viewing experienced was accompanied by “a toothless salesman spinning a CCR CD.”

Los Angeles
@mikekochansky: Fireworks over Marina Del Ray were pretty incredible. Happy 4th! (Jul 4, 9:27pm)

Long Beach, CA
@MissTrang17: Fireworks are awesome.. Vet stadium @ lbcc (Jul 4, 9:26pm)

Los Angeles, CA
@paulsantiago: Fireworks, the LA Phil, and Vince Gill at The Hollywood Bowl. (Jul 4, 11:03pm)

Burbank, CA
@bratmix: Fireworks!!! (Jul 4, 9:20pm)

San Diego
@rockstarjen: Fireworks over the bay. What a fantastic 4th! (Jul 4, 9:23pm)

San Diego, CA
@Josh_RiveraSD: Ok 4rth of July saw some fireworks.. (Jul 4, 10:37pm)

Los Angeles
@camerografo: An OK view of the Rose Bowl fireworks, Pasadena. Happy 4th everyone! (Jul 4, 9:18pm)

Los Angeles, CA
@sunshinebliss24: Fireworks over! (Jul 4, 9:21pm)

Palm Springs!
@theshawnmoore: Looking down on fireworks. You don't see the city like me. (Jul 4, 9:22pm)

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