Dear Marilyn, My brother is addicted to gambling. When he was younger, it was really bad. He stole from my mother and my sisters. My dad kicked him out of our house […]
Dear Mari: Giving him money is a gamble
Angels 2017: Getting closer to heaven
There’s a billboard on the Orange (57) Freeway with an image of an Angels’ baseball player and the slogan, “Prove them wrong.” What a great slogan for the 2017 edition of the […]
Retorts: The limitations of demonstrations
When I was in college, I ran into a bunch of guys who fancied themselves as Communists with a capital “C.” They carried copies of Mao’s famous “Little Red Book” and had […]
Dear Mari: Get the old grump some pals
Dear Marilyn, I am 25 years old, I’m married, and I have two beautiful children, ages 2 ½ and 14 months. Sometimes I feel like I have another child…my father-in-law. We’ll call […]
Long history, long bar at The Longboard
By Jim and Marilyn Tortolano We’re suckers for local history, and doubly so for small, independent eateries with lots of personality and good food. All that describes The Longboard Restaurant & Pub […]
Retorts: Cheesy thinking about St. Marc
Restaurants in the crowded eatery market of downtown Huntington Beach put out a lot of effort to attract and keep customers. Have an unpleasant experience and there are dozens, perhaps hundreds of […]
Dear Mari: Lend a hand with Easter dinner
Dear Marilyn, Every year it has been our family tradition to go to my grandmother’s house for Easter dinner. She cooks and bakes and we have many wonderful family memories of Easter […]
“Something more” and better in “Beast”
By Jim Tortolano A key line in both the original animated and the current live action version of “Beauty and the Beast” is “there’s something there that wasn’t there before.” In the […]
Can’t “leaf” this tea hot spot alone
By Jim and Marilyn Tortolano In the same small strip mall where a Starbucks flamed out a few years ago and closed, there’s a tea and coffee shop packed with customers and […]
Retorts: What’s behind the flag flap?
What’s the old saying? Don’t criticize a man until you’ve walked a mile in his Skechers? The little bit of wisdom applies this week as the Garden Grove City Council approved on […]
