Focus on the environment: Decision day for at-risk species
The Interior Department is giving hundreds of at-risk animals a thumbs up or down for protection under the Endangered Species, after long waits -- some several decades long. See today's Focus on the...
View ArticleArtist of the Week: Angelica Jimenez
Last year, after narrowly missing out on the role of Anita in the musical "West Side Story" at Santa Ana High School because she could not dance, Angelica Jimenez realized that if she was ever going to...
View ArticleDIY mercury glass
I'm not going to pretend that the DIY mercury glass techniques floating around the Web look as good as the real thing. But for some treatments where you are using silver leaf and such, they come pretty...
View ArticleMarina seniors leave their legacy with ceramic mural
As the bell rings, students at Marina High School quickly file into Michelle Dziadkowicz's ceramics classroom and immediately begin to work on their current art assignment. Some start patting and...
View ArticleThe latest OCVarsity Arts
See Orange County high school students achieving in theater, music, visual arts and dance in OCVarsity Arts.
View ArticleStudents design trash into 3-D art
Broken glass, empty soup cans, and packaging foam. To many of us these items could be described in one simple word: trash. But to the Advance Placement (AP) 3-D design students at Buena Park High...
View ArticleScores of schools gather at Fullerton College Theatre Festival
Fullerton College has hosted a high school theater festival on their campus since 1981. Originally a small local event for area high schools, the festival now hosts approximately 2,000 students from 57...
View ArticleMarch 23 celebrity birthdays
These people of the present and past were born on this date: Comedian Marty Allen is 91. Former track star and physician Roger Bannister is 84. Writer-director Michael Haneke ("Amour," "The Piano...
View ArticleLetters: Sequester's impact on immigration
CORONA DEL MAR, Bill Cool: John Morton, director of Immigration and Custom Enforcement, claims that his agency had to release 2,228 illegal immigrants because of a budget gap. More than 600 of those...
View ArticleLetters: Past and present - Lessons from Afghanistan
ANAHEIM, Ed Howarth: In 1608, the British took over India as part of its empire-building. This was when the English East India Company established a settlement at Surat in India. A portrait of U.S....
View ArticleFloral fling with Clover Chadwick
Food and flowers are not so different if you think seasonally, as Clover Chadwick does for her popular florist shop, Dandelion Ranch in Los Angeles. Both grow from the ground, local is fresher and...
View ArticleBilly Goodnick demystifies landscape design
Yellow crime tape crosses a scene of a juniper sheared back to its ugly wooden insides. Crimes against horticulture happen even in the best neighborhoods. Trees topped to near death, hedges clipped...
View ArticleTustin High hosts its first drum line competition
Tustin High School hosted its first annual drum line competition March 16 in itsr new Sports Pavilion. Thirty-six high schools and junior high schools from San Diego to Santa Barbara competed...
View Article'Lifelike' explores the space between reality and artifice
Is it real, or is it art? That's the question you might ask yourself while viewing the latest exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, overlooking the majestic Pacific Ocean in La Jolla....
View ArticleGallery: 55 Allie and Beeler cartoons
Recent cartoons by Eric Allie and Nate Beeler, both of Cagle Cartoons
View ArticleRand Paul: Getting it right on immigration reform
I spoke Tuesday to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., and unveiled my ideas for real immigration reform. I am in favor of immigration reform. This issue is important and must be...
View ArticleOCVarsity Arts: Ovations
NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC ART & WRITING AWARDS Last week, the OC Register published the names of more than 100 Orange County students selected for awards on the Regional level for the National Scholastic...
View ArticleJohnson: She protects the elderly and becomes their friend
When I arrive at the skilled nursing facility on Harbor Boulevard in Anaheim, Lee Ann Orme is already there. She is going in unannounced, she has told me. She will be looking for odors, those bad...
View ArticleJoel Kotkin: Progessives, preservation & prosperity
Conservatives often fret that Barack Obama is leading the nation toward socialism. In my mind, that's an insult to socialism, which, in theory, at least, seeks to uplift the lower classes through...
View ArticleEditorial: GOP should embrace its inner libertarian
Speaking to the Sacramento Press Club this month, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R- Bakersfield, opined that "[t]he Republican Party should embrace a little bit of our libertarianism." If the GOP...
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