By Thom deMartino “Go back where you came from!” shout members of the local Jets gang, at the members of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks. It’s a rallying cry of anger: […]
“West Side Story” explored at the Gem
U.S. women are winners, not victims
The women of the U.S. national soccer team are famous for being extraordinary athletes, repeat world champions — and plaintiffs. The team’s lawsuit alleging pay discrimination against the U.S. Soccer Federation has […]
Franken: What the future may look like
Let’s give the highest praise possible to President Donald Trump: He didn’t mortify his country on Independence Day. Other than his Revolutionary War airport thingy, he stuck to the script and gave […]
Elvis Festival returning to Main Street
The 20th Annual Elvis Festival returns to Historic Main Street in Garden Grove on Sunday, Aug. 25, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Festival, the only event of its kind in California, brings […]
Retorts: Ugliness is bad for business
We can’t do much about the way we look, but we can do plenty to make the world around us look attractive, comforting, inspirational and practical. We spend a whole lot of […]
Take me out to the beauty park … please
We live in an era of public ugliness, of architects who deliberately make their forms unsightly and inhuman, and of public art installations that are invariably ridiculous. The most obvious exception is […]
What else is “None of your business”?
President Donald Trump’s itinerary at the G-20 summit in Japan included a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose government is accused of using dirty tricks to interfere in the U.S. election […]
More updates on what’s going up here
To our readers: Last week we ran an article updating the status of various development projects in Garden Grove. We didn’t include all the information we got from Lisa Kim, community and […]
The madcap caution of Donald Trump
The worry was that the Trump administration was ginning up fake intelligence about Iran blowing up oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz to justify a war against Iran. Then the next […]
Can we “Make Iran Great Again”?
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as he arrives at a hotel in Vienna, Austria, on July 14, 2014, for a second day […]
