By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune Debra Newell’s life has taken a long, wide and sensational course. It started growing up in Garden Grove and moving on to a successful career as an […]
Rise, fall, death of “Dirty John”
A welcome to our Little Kyiv
“Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes.” – Walt Whitman Our cities here in Orange County have sometimes been imagined as strongholds of white middle class folks, as homogenized as Wonder […]
Retorts: The clock is running out
The last time an Orange County city tried something this reckless, it was almost never heard from again. Back in 1911 the residents of a community then called Benedict incorporated as the […]
Vlad’s mystical “superpower”
What’s your superpower? I mean, short of being a strange visitor from another planet or coming in possession of a magic ring, hammer or sword, what would give you powers and abilities […]
Grove battles into semifinals
By Jim Tortolano Garden Grove High’s boys’ basketball team made the free throws in the clutch and made history as well Friday night as the Argonauts defeated University High of Irvine 69-66 […]
The grass is green here, too…
Don’t leave! This is the time of year, it seems, when a lot of leaders in our communities are moving on to – or at least trying to – what I call […]
A title for hard-working Cavs
By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune In the split-second world of sports, there are good bounces and bad ones, and luck is about 50-50. So why do some teams do so well, year-in […]
Irish rally to turn back Mariners
By Jim Tortolano It’s a measure of how competitive the Empire League is that a team with 12 wins going into the league opener was bested Friday night by a team with […]
Retorts: Speak softly, or don’t
There’s only a short time until the end of the year, so it’s time for a short column with some short quotes about the issues of the day. Coronavirus “When you wrestle […]
Didn’t quite become “Ricardos”
By Jim Tortolano Here’s the problem with “Becoming the Ricardos,” the otherwise admirable new film from Amazon Studios by Aaron Sorkin. The people most likely to appreciate a movie about the making […]
