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Jamie White's nearly nine-year run as a morning host at KYSR-FM (98.7) came to an end Wednesday with the announcement that the "Jamie, Jack and Stench" show would not be returning. In a news release, the station said that "Star 98.7 management decided that the show is not a long-term fit with the music-intensive, artist-driven direction that began last April...." White had been teamed with Jack Hine and Mike Roberts on the talk and interview show since mid-2005.

Two years after a star-studded event launched the Newport Beach Walk of Fame, the cement handprints of cast members from "The O.C." have a new home -- leaning against an office wall inside an RV park. It isn't the fairy-tale ending planners had scripted. In October 2004, city bigwigs rolled out the red carpet for the Walk of Fame's first seven inductees. Surrounded by throngs of screaming girls and paparazzi, five actors and two executive producers from the TV series "The O.C.

"I don't do sarcasm anymore," Summer (Rachel Bilson) warns Seth (Adam Brody) on an impromptu trip home to tony Newport Beach from a tree-hugging first few weeks at Brown. "I'm post-ironic." "You mean earnest?" Seth replies in an exchange from the first episode of "The O.C.'s" fourth season (Fox, 9 p.m. Thursday). He's befuddled -- and why wouldn't he be?

On Saturday afternoon, Emma Murphy, a 16-year-old from Sydney, Australia, gazed at Newport Bay's choppy waters, gripping a Guess purse and a perception of Orange County gleaned solely from the small screen. Aboard "The O.C. Experience Tour" boat, Emma spotted something that tore her attention from the surrounding yachts to the Balboa Fun Zone. "Oh my God! That's the Ferris wheel that Ryan and Marissa had their first date on!" she yelled, referring to two main characters on the TV series "The O.

Labor Day commonly marks the end of summertime as most Americans think of it. Not over at Fox, though, where Thursday marks the beginning of a different kind of Summer time for fans of "The O.C." The surfside soap splashes into its third season with teen couple Summer Roberts and Seth Cohen (Rachel Bilson, Adam Brody) reunited after second-season romantic complications that were sometimes over the top even by soap standards. When "The O.C."

Who among us hasn't lost sleep wondering how to duplicate Marissa's "barely there nude lips" from the Fox-TV series "The O.C."? And what rational human hasn't yearned to decorate the bedroom with the same Victorian lamp that illuminated Summer during Season 2? At last, help has arrived. Thanks to the merchandising geniuses at Warner Bros., "The O.C." is no longer just a salacious suburban soap opera. It's a lifestyle that even someone in Chino can buy.

Citizens Here and Abroad, a 3-year-old alt-rock group from San Francisco, spent Thursday night mesmerized by the latest episode of "The O.C." They're not just ordinary fans. The band, whose "Appearances" was one of the featured songs, is hoping it'll be able to catch the wave of success that airplay on the hit Fox show had brought to so many groups before them.

Will there be trouble for Seth and Anna? Just how crazy is Oliver? And what was that song during the makeout scene? Fans of the Fox TV series "The O.C." are asking that last kind of question as much as the first two. At least that's the thinking at Warner Bros. Records, which has formed an alliance with Fox -- not just to release the standard tie-in soundtrack album, but an ongoing series of CDs to promote the show as a place to discover cool, unknown music.

For one of the very few times in her media-saturated life, Paris Hilton is turning down a chance to appear on television. What might be great news for the rest of the country proves mildly distressing to Josh Schwartz, the creator, producer and principal writer of Fox's exceedingly popular new drama series, "The O.C."