By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune The latest iteration of the big lizard vs. big ape movies – “GodzillaXKong” – is in cinemas now, but to me a more interesting film concept is […]
Opinion: What ‘Godzilla’ meant
Opinion: Customer “service” can end up being quite elusiive
I have recently emerged – along with my brilliant bride – from the darkest depths of today’s modern most heartless society: customer “service.” In too many settings, the term is an oxymoron, […]
Opinion: Best baseball movies
We’re still in the “fantasy phase” of the 2024 Major League Baseball season in which everything – good or bad – is still possible. The Astros – as of Monday’s games – […]
Opinion: Parks deserves water
Back in Rhode Island, where I come from, water was for fishing, not for swimming. No one in my family ever learned to swim once we moved out to the Pacific Coast, […]
Opinion: Abe Rifule recalled
Monday is April Fool’s Day. Of course, you might remark that during an election year, every day is April Fool’s Day and you’re not far from wrong. Here are a few favorite […]
Opinion: Sho me the money, or at least just sho us some answers
There’s a scene in the TV series “Justified” in which Deputy U.S. Marshall Raylin Givens – at gunpoint – asks a bad guy to tell him what he knows about a certain […]
Opinion: The 49ers got dragged all the way down to The Beach
Probably the most interesting thing about Long Beach State’s opening round 85-65 loss to Arizona in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament isn’t the fact that it was the […]
Opinion: What will the Teamsters have to say?
Are you sure you want this fight? At Tuesday’s meeting of the Huntington Beach City Council, the majority voted in favor of establishing a parent-guardian committee to review the “sex content” of […]
Opinion: Sports Re-Animated
Shohei and the Blue Crew are lighting up Korea, every gambler and hoops fan in America is seized by March Madness and is feverishly filling out his or her brackets and Jimmy […]
Opinion: A new era of judging a book by its partisan cover
Of all the institutions I was involved with in my youth growing up in Orange County, the one that never disappointed or caused me grief was the local library. We lived about […]
