Eastern Europe: Ukraine's Doomsday Bay
For a place scripted for a starring role in the end of the world, Balaklava Bay puts on a pretty face. With its string of seafood restaurants and cafes along the waterfront looking out at prim...
View ArticleHot Shots Overtime: Friday's soccer, water polo
Check out OCVarsity's Hot Shots Overtime slideshow of the high school boys and girls soccer and girls water polo on Friday (Jan. 25, 2013).
View ArticleHot Shots Overtime: Friday's basketball
Check out OCVarsity's Hot Shots Overtime slideshow from the high school boys and girls basketball games around the county Friday.
View ArticleThe Blasters, X, parts of Los Lobos fire away for Phil Alvin
Phil Alvin walked on stage by himself, and after a heartfelt thanks to the sold-out crowd at the Observatory opened his set with a solo take on the standard “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” – the...
View ArticleLouis Lortie takes on Wagner, shines at Soka
Louis Lortie, the French-Canadian wonder who played an astonishing piano recital at the Soka Performing Arts Center on Saturday night, is a virtuoso of the highest rank and maybe an even better...
View ArticleDodgers Ethier "entertained" by trade rumors
LOS ANGELES – Say this about the off-season rumors that had the Dodgers shopping outfielder Andre Ethier – they were persistent. Ethier called them more "entertaining" than unsettling. He said his mind...
View ArticleLakers find new identity as they cruise past Thunder
LOS ANGELES – When the Lakers' offense would get in a rut, Phil Jackson would move Kobe Bryant from the wing to the backcourt in the triangle offense and essentially force Bryant to shift his mentality...
View ArticleWoods distances himself from the field
SAN DIEGO – The last time Tiger Woods played golf on a Monday at Torrey Pines, it worked out pretty well for him. That was in 2008, when Woods battled – and beat – Rocco Mediate in a classic U.S. Open...
View ArticleFasth gains rave reviews after strong debut in net
ANAHEIM – Either because of injuries or their lack of confidence in an alternative, the Ducks thought so little of their backup goalies last season that Jonas Hiller played in a club-record 73 games....
View ArticleWhicker: Tiger on top, so the show goes on
SAN DIEGO – The circus has already begun to leave town, even though the Tiger hasn't. There is hardly anything more desolate than a Monday finish to a PGA Tour event. On TV you only see pastoral...
View Article'Argo,' Lawrence, Day-Lewis take top SAG honors
LOS ANGELES – The CIA thriller "Argo" continues to steamroll through awards season, winning the top honor for overall cast performance at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. SAG's lead-acting honors Sunday...
View ArticleClippers weathering storm without Paul
LOS ANGELES – The Clippers took the court Sunday for the fourth consecutive game and seventh overall without their floor leader, Chris Paul. In their previous three games, they lost without Paul, the...
View Article'Rite of Spring': Dance reconstruction a 'complicated detective story'
Piecing together "The Rite of Spring" was "a great and complicated detective story," says Millicent Hodson, a choreographer and artist, who with historian and scenic consultant Kenneth Archer...
View Article'Rite of Spring': A rule-changing musical masterpiece
The first time I heard "The Rite of Spring" I was 13 or 14. As I remember it, the record was lying around the house, in a sleeve but without a jacket. I guess it was my mother's, though she didn't...
View ArticleToday's cartoons: Going to bat for women in combat
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View ArticleWhiting: Trail closures are needed rain's downside
The recent rains mean more water, and that's a good thing in the middle of a drought. But despite the mostly gentle rains that fell several days late last week, there's some bad news and good news....
View ArticleState, county in court over millions annually
Oral arguments are set for Tuesday afternoon in a lawsuit in which the state is demanding that Orange County pay an annual amount in the neighborhood of $73.5 million. Judge Robert Moss of Orange...
View ArticleH.B. to take another look at alternate senior center sites
HUNTINGTON BEACH – When it comes to building a new senior center, everybody seems to agree on one thing: a new facility in Huntington Beach is much-needed. On the other hand, the question of where it...
View ArticleDekraai reportedly pepper-sprayed in jail disruption
SANTA ANA – The Huntington Beach man accused of murdering eight people at a Seal Beach beauty salon had to be pepper-sprayed and restrained when he became disruptive in the Theo Lacy branch jail. Scott...
View ArticleRacers tear up pinewood derby track
Racers put the pedal to the wood in heat after heat of the Indian 500 last weekend.The pinewood derby is a highlight of the year for the YMCA of Orange's Indian Guides and Princesses program.Children...
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