This is the season of statues, monuments and symbolism, both near and far. Violence in Virginia, and at least some virulent words here in Orange County. A national tempest has been stirred […]
What’s in a name? Business, that’s what
Dear Mari: Should she wait a year for him?
Dear Marilyn, I have an issue with a close friend. He is in the Navy. He was recently deployed, and will be gone for a year. We have known each other since […]
“Henry IV” has modern parallels at SOC
By Thom deMartino An embattled, bombastic, newly-minted leader, facing revolt from within and without, as some his earliest and truest supporters turn on him, in a conflict threatening to blossom into civil […]
“Wind River” a mystery with a difference
By Jim Tortolano Most murder mysteries in movies seem to occur in urban areas with lots of chases down grungy alleys and under the glare of artificial light, often with a pretty […]
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. […]
Dear Mari: Should you do it yourself?
Dear Marilyn, I would like some advice. Do you think it is best to do things yourself, or to pay others to do them for you? For example, when the oil in […]
MM Coach: Rams, Bolts are starting slow
Week One of the NFL pre-season is in the books and neither “local” team had a very impressive 2017 debut. The Rams won a sloppy 13-10 game over the Dallas Cowboys and […]
Good look at a great movie: “Casablanca”
By Jim Tortolano When I was teaching a college mass communications course just a few years ago, I used to show my students a 1942 black-and-white dinosaur of a film they claimed […]
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 […]
Caught in the middle of divorced folks
Dear Marilyn, My parents have been divorced for almost eleven years. Neither one of them has been dating anyone else since that time. Recently, however, my mom has met a guy and has […]
