The Ferris wheel and carousels at Garden Grove’s annual Strawberry Festival are not just carnival devices to me. They’re more like colorful time machines. Every Memorial Day weekend the area in and […]
Festival as time travel device
Let’s fix those broken cliches
Will Rogers once said that “It’s not so much what people don’t know that’s the problem; it’s what they think that ain’t so.” Well, ain’t that the truth? There so much that’s […]
Six very early NFL questions
We were in Oggi’s at Chapman and Harbor on Monday for lunch and one of the 500 (slight exaggeration) or so TV screen announced that it was 115 more days until opening […]
Outstanding “outsourcing”
So the majority on the Huntington Beach City Council last week turned back an effort to place proposed privatization of its city library system on the ballot for voters to decide. The […]
The Halos’ homely home record
Of all the depressing statistics that define the Los Angeles Angels’ too-early descent into the lower recesses of the American League, the most head-scratching number is this one: 4-12. No, that’s not […]
Retorts: Which is your favorite local supermarket and why?
So, there I was in Aisle 17 trying to decide which dog food was best for Shadow, the flat-coated retriever, when it occurred to me that I was semi-consciously comparing the […]
Stay the course with coaches
The Lakers’ firing of Darvin Ham as head coach this week was about as predictable and short-sighted as such things come. The team has now had seven head coaches in 15 years, […]
It’s hard to forgive Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda was in the news this week – national as well as local – when the Westminster City Council held a special meeting on Friday to pass a resolution demanding that […]
My plan(s) to rescue the Angels
As promised, Jim’s second half of proposals for rescuing the Los Angeles Angels from perpetual exile in the Under .500 club. Remedy Four: Relocate or threaten to relocate. The Oakland A’s were […]
See future through the Smoke
The future has landed in Garden Grove’s Civic Center area. I’m not talking about the Civic Center Revitalization project; that undertaking – including a new police building with adjacent parking structure, as […]
