Celebrity watch: Rolling Stones release new single
The Rolling Stones (they’re old, ask your grandparents) released their first single in seven years on Thursday. E! News reports that “Doom and Gloom” (it’s tough getting old) had its debut on BBC Radio...
View ArticleLansner: Job math is poor for many
Our thrice weekly look at economic trends today ponders employment math. PLUS: Is California at the heart of the latest job count conspiracy? The U.S. government said Thursday that 339,000 initial...
View ArticleUSC's basketball 'rejects' ready to bounce back
LOS ANGELES – USC has pulled in basketball players from all corners, from Coto de Caza to Paterson, N.J., to Cairo. Despite geographical differences, most of them share a common trait. "Including...
View ArticleO.C. football: Live Week 7 updates all night
Week 7 promises to bring a lot of exciting high school football action, including important showdowns play in many Orange County leagues. And, of course, OCVarsity.com will be there with the latest....
View ArticleMiller: A-Rod's decline should worry Angels
If they squint real hard at the batter's box in New York right now, they can see what Alex Rodriguez once was. If we squint real hard from way out here on the West Coast, we can see what Albert Pujols...
View ArticleUCLA to unveil statue of Wooden
LOS ANGELES - UCLA will unveil a statue of the late basketball coach John Wooden outside newly renovated Pauley Pavilion on Oct. 26. Members of Wooden's family are expected to attend. The bronze statue...
View ArticleMexico airline starts Orange County service
John Wayne Airport, which had no service to Mexico just five months ago, saw a second airline enter the market Thursday when Interjet launched its inaugural daily flights to Mexico City and...
View ArticleBaby Brain: Should you buy a Halloween costume for a baby?
Last Halloween, I dressed up as an exhausted, swollen, uncomfortable pregnant lady. At more than eight and a half months pregnant, I didn't even need a costume. In fact, I was lucky to fit into any...
View ArticleToday's cartoons: Send the TSA to Benghazi
Also: Benghazi brushed under the rug; The Empty Chair
View ArticleCash is what presidential candidates really want in California
When Barack Obama and Mitt Romney swept through California in recent days, neither wasted any time at public rallies. Instead, in a state whose 55 electoral votes the GOP long ago conceded, the...
View ArticleYou and your soil
It's time to talk about your soil, because soil is what gardening is all about. The plants are only icing on the cake. It was a light bulb moment for me when I asked my friend Patty, a geologist, about...
View ArticleO.C. gas prices edge down to $4.66
The pain at the gas pump is easing for Orange County residents as the average price of gas dropped to $4.66 Friday. O.C. motorists are paying one cent less than Thursday, but still 13 cents more than...
View ArticleForum looks at altering O.C. views on migrants
IRVINE It was a moment of blind anger. At a Costa Mesa intersection, a driver pulled over and told three pedestrians to "go back to Mexico." One of them was Tim Celek, senior pastor of The Crossing...
View ArticleEditorial: Biden vs. Ryan no game-changer
No sooner did Vice President Joe Biden and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan conclude their vice presidential debate Thursday than the punditocracy weighed in on who won and who lost. But debates are not like...
View ArticleOCVarsity Hot Shots: Thursday's football games
Check out all of OCVarsity's photos of the high school football action on the field and the Fandemonium in the stands from the games on Thursday night.
View ArticleAfternoon letters: Ryan plans, Biden interrupts
NEWPORT BEACH, Thomas R. Damiani: In spite of America’s major economic problems, during the Vice Presidential Debate Joe Biden offered only the standard President Barack Obama/Biden excuses and...
View ArticleYankees edge Orioles to advance to ALCS
NEW YORK - Yankees-Orioles. Playoffs. Disputed home run to right field. Yankees win. Sound familiar? CC Sabathia and his New York teammates saw Nate McLouth's long drive called foul by the slimmest of...
View ArticleOct. 12 celebrity birthdays
Architect César Pelli, designer of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and other prominent O.C. buildings, is 86. Comedian-activist Dick Gregory is 80. Hall of Fame NASCAR driver Ned Jarrett is...
View Article'The Walking Dead' returns with more gore, surprises
"The Walking Dead" is the little zombie show that could The post-apocalyptic drama set in Atlanta, Ga., which begins its third season Sunday night, may not rack up Emmy nominations at the rate of its...
View Article'Rocky Horror' in Santa Ana still working out its kinks
With its horror/sci-fi film trappings, funny/weird characters dressed in bizarre costumes and its general emphasis on the strange, "The Rocky Horror Show" is tailor-made for the Halloween season....
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