Adam Ant gets heavy at the Grove
When I last saw Adam Ant, he was wearing nothing but his underwear and thigh-high boots and writhing within a tank of water, having just reenacted Harry Houdini’s Chinese Water Torture Cell escape...
View ArticleBrad Paisley shines at Hollywood Bowl debut
Contemporary country music is a small-c conservative style, filled with songs that extol an Eden-like yesterday, where the little guy is king and small-town values rule. Brad Paisley certainly follows...
View ArticleParker Quartet opens season in Irvine
The string quartet has an odd reputation in America. It has become a symbol of elitism and upper crust mindlessness. In movies, well dressed, impeccably accented villains are always listening to them,...
View Article'Pumpkinmania' thumpers hit O.C. patches
IRVINE – The magic of a Halloween pumpkin, in the words of a 7-year-old: "I think they're all kind of special. They're all different in all kinds of ways. There's something unique about each." That was...
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View ArticleDebate: O.C. voters rate Romney, Obama
As with the previous presidential and vice presidential debates, we assembled an ideologically diverse quintet of Orange County voters to watch Monday's event. They then responded to the question,...
View ArticleWarriors put it all together against University
Woodbridge coach Rick Gibson had been looking for a solid four-quarter performance from his team all season. Friday night, Gibson got one. He watched his Warriors defeat University, 38-7, in a Pacific...
View ArticleGarden mazes offer fun and excitement
Originally used for ritual walking, mazes and labyrinths evolved in Renaissance Europe as a popular activity for royalty. Some puzzles were intended to confuse or disorient. Others were designed for...
View ArticleArts OC to offer discounted tickets through new partnership
Arts Orange County and Goldstar, a leading membership-based web retailer of half-price entertainment tickets, have announced a new partnership. Arts Orange County, the region's nonprofit arts council,...
View ArticleTrojans played numbers game to hoodwink Colorado
USC is one of the few Division I football teams that doesn't put player names on the back of its jerseys. Under Coach Lane Kiffin, that's unlikely to change. Kiffin and special-teams coach John Baxter...
View ArticleRested Bruins prepare
LOS ANGELES – College football won't have a playoff until 2014, but for Brett Hundley, the post-bye weeks feel similar. "It's almost like a new season. ... These last five games are basically...
View ArticleUni tennis phenom Gage Brymer picks UCLA
University High senior boys tennis player Gage Brymer has committed to UCLA, he announced on Thursday. Brymer, one of the top players in the nation and the defending two-time CIF individual singles...
View ArticleNot like he Drew it
LOS ANGELES – Larry Drew II already sounds like a sequel. Larry Drew, Part II, premieres Nov. 9, in a new Pauley Pavilion, with new and old teammates, with his personal screen cleared to etch whatever...
View ArticleGiants' resolve lands ticket to World Series
SAN FRANCISCO – In the end, the San Francisco Giants were like a bunch of kids who refused to come in from the rain. They stood on the wet field, getting drenched. At one point in the ninth inning,...
View ArticleSokol: Iraq veteran's rescue arrived on four legs
Luis Carlos Montalván couldn't sleep. He struggled to walk without losing his balance. In constant pain from multiple injuries incurred in Iraq -- including fractured vertebrae, a Traumatic Brain...
View ArticleRobert Samuelson: Obamacare stifles business
Just recently, the Internal Revenue Service issued an 18-page, single-spaced notice explaining how to distinguish between full-time and part-time workers under the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")....
View ArticleLessons in Longevity in Garden Grove
Each morning, David Zlaket and his father Leo cook hot entrees and each afternoon they hand-scoop sodas at the family's market that has been a fixture on Garden Grove's Main Street for 85 years....
View ArticleLess than quarter home selling as distressed properties
The following update on local real estate information is based on Multiple Listing Service data as of Monday. There are currently 50 available properties in Placentia of which 24 percent are listed...
View ArticleJohn Allison: Red tape is strangling recovery
For years politicians have bickered about the best prescriptions for the economy. From the right, it's lower taxes; from the left, the remedy is stimulus spending and government programs. Lost in the...
View ArticleEditorial: Newport may drop fee anchor on marinas
Some business owners in Newport Beach are strongly opposed to a proposed marina rent hike that aims to increase rates for the businesses that rent boat slips to boat owners. The City Council could...
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