Dear Marilyn, I would like some advice. Do you think it is best to do things yourself, or to pay others to do them for you? For example, when the oil in […]
Dear Mari: Should you do it yourself?
Good look at a great movie: “Casablanca”
By Jim Tortolano When I was teaching a college mass communications course just a few years ago, I used to show my students a 1942 black-and-white dinosaur of a film they claimed […]
“Glass Castle,” concerts and Scouts
Uh-oh! Back-to-school is creeping up. Looking for the fun stuff to do before the routines of fall set in? Here are some ideas for the Garden Grove-Huntington Beach-Westminster area. Movies A light […]
Caught in the middle of divorced folks
Dear Marilyn, My parents have been divorced for almost eleven years. Neither one of them has been dating anyone else since that time. Recently, however, my mom has met a guy and has […]
“Dark Tower” film isn’t the book, but …
By Jim Tortolano If you read the Stephen King novel “The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger” you may be disappointed in the new film “The Dark Tower,” but only in the sense that […]
High and Mighty comes to downtown
It’s a big weekend for musical events in the Garden Grove-Huntington Beach-Westminster, topped by the High and Mighty Festival to be held Saturday and Sunday at the Village Green Park in downtown […]
Dear Mari: Sober lady, drinking boyfriend
Dear Marilyn, I am an alcoholic. I am six months sober. The problem is that my boyfriend has started to drink more and more frequently. When we first started dating, I was the […]
A classic baseball musical with heart
By Thom deMartino What would you sacrifice to fulfill your fondest wish? In “Damn Yankees”, now playing at the Rose Center Theater, it’s the middle of the 1950’s in Washington D.C., and […]
“Things” explores love, family at WCP
By Thom deMartino Looking back, what were the lessons from your mother that stuck with you? Look both ways before crossing the street? Don’t talk to strangers? Always buy a new toilet […]
Surfin’ USA comes to Huntington Beach
It will be a wet and wild weekend in the area as Huntington Beach hosts the Vans U.S. Open of Surfing starting on Saturday and continuing through Sunday, Aug. 6. The action […]
