By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune In the fall of 2021, while most of Orange County’s theater community were reeling from on-again, off-again safety regulations, Golden West College Theater director Tom Amen came […]
“Oedipus Rex” on the screen
A lean and modern “Hamlet”
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune From the once implacable darkness, the creeping melancholy tones of an indigo sky stir — casting down upon the uneasy scene below, unfolding beneath the spectral visage […]
A charming show of “Horrors”
By Thom deMartino In a season of ghosts and ghouls, tricks and treats, sometimes the scariest monsters are growing right in our very backyards… The day is long and unforgiving, in the […]
Schools, colleges reopen soon
“Back-to-school” is something that used to happen in September, but these days, things move faster and all but three of the school systems and colleges in the West Orange County area will […]
Regal plans Aug. 21 re-opening
Maybe we haven’t seen the Last Picture Show yet. Regal Cinemas, which operates a 16-screen cinema in Garden Grove, announced this week it was planning to reopen its theaters nationwide on Aug. […]
A head start in Early College
Garden Grove Unified School District is seeing success with its Early College Academy which gives students the opportunity to earn college credit for free and meet high school graduation requirements at the […]
School districts push back openings
UPDATE: State Superintendent of Schools Tony Thurmond on Tuesday said that California schools are likely to remain closed through the end of the academic year because of the coronavirus outbreak. He did […]
Closings and cancellations growing
UPDATE: The City of Westminster today (Friday) announced it was cancelling several events as a precaution against the possible spread of the coronavirus. Cancelled are: All Senior Center programs including the Senior […]
Engrossing “Lessons” at Golden West
By Thom deMartino In the darkness of the theater, be it live or cinematic, we lose ourselves in the lines and tales so those we never knew but somehow through the production […]
A worthwhile “dirty” on stage at GWC
By Thom deMartino “Men aren’t ALL bad,” muses Miss Mona, proprietor of a local women’s boarding-house — and house of ill-repute — to one of her newest tenants. “They’re just 92 percent […]
