Ben Wener

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Sleeping Beauty Castle Disneyland Resort
Eat
Apr 7, 2016

Every Single Restaurant at Disneyland, Ranked

OK, you’re gonna go to Disneyland for sure, but while you’re there, why suffer through cafeteria dreck aimed at families on budgets when you could be downing spiced-up lobster rolls and tonsil-slapping gumbo in the shade of the Haunted Mansion?

Lifestyle
Nov 3, 2015

An Idiot’s Guide to 39 OC Neighborhoods

From a distance, Orange County can easily seem like the world's largest Living Spaces outlet, an indistinguishable glob of climate-controlled suburbia inhabited by evangelical neocons whose not-so-rich kids in yesterday's fashions patrol not-so-mean streets on hands-free Segways.

Lifestyle
Oct 19, 2015

The Worst People at Disneyland

Maleficent. Cruella. Scar. Those are fake Disney villains.

Lifestyle
Sep 21, 2015

The Disneyland Bucket List: 40 Things You Need to Do Before You Die

You might think you've done Disneyland/California Adventure as well as anyone could possibly do it, from main gate to backstage -- but, well, you’d be wrong.

Lifestyle
Aug 3, 2015

31 Things You Need to Explain to Out-of-Towners About OC

At some point, you're going to have friends or family come in from other cities to visit, and they’re going to ask you to show them around “The OC.”