By Jim Tortolano Many are calling it a flop because of its early box office performance, but “Solo: A Star Wars Story” deserves a better description. As someone who thrilled to the […]
“Solo” revives the spirit of “Star Wars”
Retorts: Love among the game booths
Garden Grove owes a lot to the Strawberry Festival. I owe it my wife. The 60th annual event, to be held for four days over this Memorial Day weekend at the Village […]
Argos win to advance to CIF v-ball finals
By Jim Tortolano Overcoming a stubborn Redlands High squad, the Garden Grove High boys’ volleyball team won its CIF-SS Division 5 semifinal contest Wednesday at GGHS, prevailing 3-1 to advance to the […]
Retorts: Skating on the edge of theater
When I was a kid, I was fascinated by a “sport” called roller derby. The illegitimate cousin of professional “wrestling,” this cheesy enterprise was broadcast on Channel 13 and involved a bunch […]
Retorts: Many great GG neighborhoods
No good deed goes unpunished. That’s clear from this week’s reaction to Garden Grove City Councilman (and mayor pro tem) Kris Beard’s latest initiative. He wrote a proposed resolution to declare that […]
Retorts: Sift SB 54 facts from rumor
At every public meeting of city councils in Orange County, whenever the subject of sanctuary cities comes up, there seems to be a lot more heat than light. As I write this, […]
“A Quiet Place” makes a great sound
By Jim Tortolano For the last generation or two, the horror movie business has been stuck in a nightmare of its own making: a “Groundhog Day” of clueless people hanging out in […]
Retorts: An early season election primer
It’s only March, but the political season is already underway. Huge signs are popping up at every street corner advertising the two-word platform of the candidate: MY NAME. A little later in […]
Retorts: Missing snowballs in the spring
The coming of baseball season always leads to a singing of that most popular of sporting songs, “Take Me Out To the Ball Game.” Estimated to be the third most-commonly sung tune […]
Retorts: Blaming past is easy, but in vain
The Americans took California from the Mexicans. The Mexicans took it from the Spanish. The Spanish took it from the natives. Those natives took it from … does it matter? America used […]
