Recipe: Pimm's O'Clock Cocktail
Yield: 1 large cocktail or 2 smaller cocktails 2 ripe strawberries, halved 8 thin slices peeled hothouse cucumber 1/4 orange, cut into 3 or 4 pieces with the peel intact, seeds removed if present Ice 8...
View ArticleWill Cars Land fill up with holiday crowds?
ANAHEIM – Disneyland traditionally draws its biggest crowds of the year between Christmas and New Year's Day, sometimes forcing the park to send visitors next door to Disney California Adventure when...
View ArticleAliso Viejo church transports with 'greatest story'
BY MINDY SCHAUER The snow fell softly while people attended Coast Hills Community Church in Aliso Viejo Monday. Four Christmas Eve services featured live music, dance, videography and the...
View ArticleAmtrak train kills San Clemente pedestrian
SAN CLEMENTE – A pedestrian was struck and killed by an Amtrak train on Monday afternoon, authorities said.Deputies shortly before 4:30 p.m. responded to reports of a train striking a pedestrian on the...
View ArticleLetters: Paying it forward with holiday kindnesses
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Risé Krejci-Rodrigues: “Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.” – Leo Tolstoy Recently, I went shopping at our community...
View ArticleOCVarsity Hot Shots: Weekend basketball games
Slideshow: Check out all of OCVarsity's photos from the boys and girls high school basketball games over the weekend.
View ArticleLakers like their chances this time
EL SEGUNDO – The last time the Lakers played the New York Knicks it was two weeks ago at Madison Square Garden. The last time the teams met, Carmelo Anthony burned the Lakers for 30 points on 10-of-15...
View ArticleDec. 24 celebrity birthdays
These people of the present and past were born on this date. Songwriter-bandleader-producer Dave Bartholomew is 92. Author Mary Higgins Clark is 83. Record company owner and former California Lt. Gov....
View ArticleDing: Lakers still await Howard's inspiration
The way you view your mortality will be the same way you live your life. Romantic or matter-of-fact, defiant or defeatist, how you deal with the gifts and challenges you encounter every day will color...
View ArticleCelebrations Special Section
Check out recent marriages, engagements and life achievements from the Orange County community in this special December Celebrations section.
View ArticleColts' 'Christmas gift' arrives at team facility
INDIANAPOLIS – Chuck Pagano was back at work Monday morning. Three months after taking an indefinite leave to battle leukemia, the Colts' coach was scheduled to meet with players, coaches and reporters...
View ArticleOCVarsity Hot Shots 2: Weekend games
Slideshow: Check out all of OCVarsity's photos of the high school teams in action over the weekend in wrestling, boys and girls soccer and girls water polo.
View ArticleActor Jack Klugman dies at 90
Jack Klugman, the prolific, craggy-faced character actor and regular guy who was loved by millions as the messy one in TV's "The Odd Couple" and the crime-fighting coroner in "Quincy, M.E.," died...
View ArticleWhicker: Jones glad he stayed a Bruin
LOS ANGELES – It could have ended any which way. A diaspora of Bruins transfers, fleeing the infamous 80-yard practice field. No bowl game. Even worse, another bad bowl game. And another senior class,...
View ArticleUCLA's Goforth ready
SAN DIEGO – With UCLA's second-leading tackler and starting safety Tevin McDonald set to miss the Holiday Bowl because of an undisclosed violation of team rules, the Bruins' defense will have a hole to...
View ArticleUCLA's Franklin finally at peace with himself
SAN DIEGO – Johnathan Franklin's great redemption story begins in the scrawled-on pages of his old high school notebooks. For 10 minutes a day, every day, Franklin would pour his soul onto one of their...
View ArticlePaul: Clippers have more to come
PLAYA VISTA – A year ago, basketball fans eagerly awaited the debut of "Lob City" as the lockout-shortened season got under way. Last Christmas was opening day for the league, and the Clippers' capped...
View ArticleSmith: Trout home for the holidays
A 50-mile drive southeast from Philadelphia takes you to this former American glassmaking capital that has become revitalized by the lightning-strike rise of a humble, homegrown ballplayer. Near the...
View ArticleA pop music staging of 'Snow White' is worth the drive
The English theatrical form of pantomime, which later came to be known simply as "Panto," may not be familiar even to habitual theatergoers, but its concepts are certainly well known. With its mixture...
View ArticleMacabre 'Addams Family' values prove most indestructible
Think the Broadway musical "The Addams Family" is based on the various '90s films? Think again, and ditto the moderately popular '60s TV series. All three – television, movies, Broadway play – are...
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