Newport film fest ready to roll
Orange County's largest and longest-running film festival is getting ready to dim the lights and run the projectors once again. The Newport Beach Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 14th...
View ArticleGallery: 30 gay marriage and Easter cartoons
Also: Cartoonists poke fun at the same-sex marriage debate and usher in Easter.
View ArticleUCLA hires New Mexico's Alford
LOS ANGELES — Less than a week after Ben Howland’s firing had induced the first changing of the guard in a decade atop UCLA’s storied basketball program, UCLA has hired Steve Alford as its next...
View ArticleKoivu scores in shootout as Wild beat Kings
ST. PAUL, MINN. – Mikko Koivu scored in a shootout to give the Minnesota Wild a 4-3 victory over the Kings on Saturday night. Koivu also had two assists in regulation. Matt Cullen also had a goal, Zach...
View ArticleStudents learn and compete at Fullerton Jazz Festival
The Fullerton College High School Jazz Festival is one of the longest continuously running scholastic jazz festivals in the nation. In its 41st year, it featured two days of vocal and instrumental jazz...
View ArticleMarch 30 celebrity birthdays
These people of the present and past were born on this date: Former TV personality and game-show host Peter Marshall is 87. Actor Richard Dysart is 84. Actor John Astin ("The Addams Family," "Evil Roy...
View ArticleLetters: Greenhouse-gas law gores state businesses
BUENA PARK, Daniel A. Thurber: When Assembly Bill 32, which enabled the cap-and-trade bill, was introduced, public universities supported the act to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, despite the fact...
View ArticleWonderCon connects TV shows with fans
A panel on the TNT's sci-fi series "Falling Skies" kicks off at midday Saturday and, if everything goes as expected, a few minutes later the Internet will start to buzz with tweets and photos and...
View ArticleRegister to launch online paywall
The Orange County Register is launching an online paywall, which means that readers who want to browse the newspaper online must buy a subscription or pay a daily rate to have access to the website...
View ArticleSpring home and garden tours 2013
April 6 San Diego Horticultural Society Spring Garden Tour This self-guided tour covers seven gardens in the Poway region, from a native-plant paradise to a succulent sanctuary and more. 9 a.m. to 4...
View ArticleA stand-up salsa garden
Retired Santa Ana Police officer Rufus Tanksley grows what he calls his "Ghetto Garden." It's a small, weedy patch alongside the house he rents until he seriously retreats to Texas in a year or two....
View ArticleMark Landsbaum: 'The right to do what we ought'
If there's a universal truth that crosses party lines, this may be it: Parents shouldn't bury their children. Children should outlive their parents. Parents' pain is unimaginable when they are preceded...
View ArticleWhicker: UCLA's hiring of Alford not a slam dunk
The UCLA basketball fan base would consider Mike Krzyzewski too old, Tom Izzo too short, Jim Boeheim too tall, Rick Pitino too consumed with vanilla suits, and Roy Williams too weepy. So it doesn't...
View ArticleCSF basketball hires ASU assistant coach
Dedrique Taylor, Arizona State’s associate head coach, was selected as the new men’s basketball coach at Cal State Fullerton on Saturday. Taylor, 38, came to ASU when Herb Sendek became head coach...
View ArticleSyracuse moves on to Final Four
WASHINGTON — When played to perfection, there's nothing quite like Syracuse's aggressive, half-court 2-3 zone defense. It's 40 minutes of trapping and shot-challenging, of closing off angles, of...
View ArticleClassical recordings: Beethoven, Mahler, Messiaen
Last season, when Gustavo Dudamel undertook to conduct all nine Mahler symphonies with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela over the span of a few weeks, it...
View ArticleAgholor wows USC football coaches in scrimmage
LOS ANGELES – It's been an assumption that Nelson Agholor is next in line behind Robert Woods and Marqise Lee; next in the line of USC receivers to take a leap from their freshman year to their...
View ArticleSmith: Heat is on as Sciosia enters 14th season with Angels
ANAHEIM – We've asked him his take on new Angels slugger Josh Hamilton's humor, on three-time MVP Albert Pujols' repaired knee, on All-Star left-hander C.J. Wilson's scatter-armed spring, even on the...
View ArticleClippers fall to short-handed Rockets
HOUSTON – Even though the Clippers had dropped two of their previous three games on the road trip, there was still a feeling of optimism. While players acknowledged that it’s far too late in the...
View ArticleDucks wary of another letdown after beating Chicago
COLUMBUS, Ohio – An emotional, late-game victory over Chicago was what snapped the Ducks out of their first losing streak that came after an emotional late-game triumph over Chicago. Now comes the hard...
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