By Jim Tortolano Long a landmark in the civic center area, Donald R. Wash Memorial Auditorium on Stanford Avenue on the Garden Grove High School campus has – for more than six […]
Renovated Don Wash is open for business
Retorts: Wielding words as weapons
The events in Charlottesville, Virginia are still fresh in our minds and emotions are running high. A fear of rising escalation of anger, of steeper polarization seems to be taking hold. […]
Retorts: It’s one year for the OC Tribune
“Journalism,” Matthew Arnold said, “is literature in a hurry.” I can remember in my youth scrambling to write articles to meet some impending daily deadline, peering desperately at increasingly obscure notes, feeling […]
Longer hours for bars, eateries eased
By Jim Tortolano A plan to make it easier for some downtown businesses – primarily bars and restaurants – to stay open later was approved by the Huntington Beach City Council […]
Retorts: The two sides of gentrification
Here’s the good news. Get ready for your property values to rise. Here’s the not-quite-as-good news: your kids may have to move to East Overshoe in order to find an affordable house […]
Retorts: Stop, you’re killing me with jokes!
“What are you gonna do?” That’s a very common line from the now-venerable HBO series “The Sopranos,” about a mobster and his family, made unique by his visits to a psychiatrist. Marilyn […]
Retorts: Math requirements don’t add up
Let’s imagine a high school classroom, more than a few years ago. A group of students is working geometry problems. A pretty blonde in the front row turns to the boy behind […]
A simian “a-nap-ocalypse” war
By Jim Tortolano I have to be honest with you, I fell asleep for about 20 minutes during the first hour of “War for the Planet of the Apes” film, and according […]
Retorts: Keep your pot to yourself, please
Don’t smoke that dope. At least not around me. That sort of summarizes my whole attitude about the legalization in California for medicinal and recreational use of marijuana, also known as cannabis. […]
Retorts: Trader Joe’s? Amazon? BevMo?
Of all the amenities that a community needs and wants, among the most important are shopping and dining opportunities. That may sound shallow, but these days shopping is a sport and eating […]
