The State of California has fired a “shot across the bow” at a proposal being considered by the Huntington Beach City Council majority to require voter identification at polling places and installing […]
Sam’s Club isn’t Uncle Sam
Spellbinding “Wait Until Dark”
By Thom deMartino/Orange County Tribune Sometimes seeing clearly has nothing to do with sight. The Westminster Community Playhouse has just raised the curtain on its 63rd season with a tale of deceit […]
Bad choices, but Bolts won
By Rob Maddi/AP Pro Football Writer The Vikings and Chargers traded inexplicable decisions in the final two minutes. After Los Angeles coach Brandon Staley set Minnesota up for a win, Vikings […]
This sequel really’s ‘Expend4ble’
By Jocelyn Noveck/AP National Writer It’s a throwaway line, but maybe a bit too meaningful, under the circumstances. “Gravity is setting in,” says Barney, Sylvester Stallone’s aging character in “Expend4bles,” when someone […]
Followed his dreams to the U.S.
By Jill Lloyd/Special to The Tribune When Oleksandr Silaiev fled Kyiv, Ukraine, his homeland, on February 14, 2022, it had nothing to do with the traditions of Valentine’s Day, but it was […]
One person’s trash is … magic
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer John Carney, the Irish filmmaker of “Once,” “Sing Street” and “Begin Again,” makes the movie version of “three chords and the truth.” His films, unabashedly earnest, feel-good […]
Bicyclists on the road to ruin
OK, so I’m driving down Chapman Avenue, past the See’s Candy, when a guy on a bike sails his two-wheeler diagonally across four lanes of moving traffic. I brake my Chevy in […]
What Dodgers owe the Angels
At this point, I am willing to bet my collection of old Mad Magazines that the Greatest Player (So Far) of the 21st Century – Shohei Ohtani – will be the very […]
10th NLW title is still special
By Tim Booth/AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) – Clayton Kershaw doesn`t know how many more of these celebrations he`ll get the chance to enjoy inside the Los Angeles Dodgers` clubhouse. Wrapping up […]
Lobos had first ‘home’ game
When Los Amigos High School launched its football program, Richard Nixon was president. Eight chief executives later, the Lobos had their first “home” game. As part of the Garden Grove Unified School […]
