In a recent column I mused on stuff you never see around our towns: mail boxes, newspaper racks, etc. It got me to thinking about intriguing proposals that never – for better […]
Big plans that never happened
Beware of Medicare, SS scams
Garden Grove police are warning residents – especially senior citizens – of a Medicare/Medi-Cal “scam” intended to prey on concerns connected to changes in those programs recently enacted by Congress. The scam […]
‘Jurassic World’ lifts franchise
By Mark Kennedy AP Entertaiment Writer If you’ve lately been feeling that the “Jurassic Park” franchise has jumped an even more ancient creature — the shark — hold off any thoughts of […]
There’s no tying in baseball
Baseball, America’ oldest pastime, if not its’ most favorite, is nevertheless the one with the most with the most myths, traditions and superstitions. Yesterday was July 4, and – as the spooky […]
Clayton Kershaw hits 3000
By Beth Harris AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw was laboring in pursuit of his 3,000th strikeout. His pitch count soaring, he was down to the last batter he […]
Uma, Charlize lead ‘Old Guard 2’
By Lindsey Bahr AP Film Writer About 80 minutes into “The Old Guard 2,” I found myself wondering how the filmmakers were going to wrap things up. There were a lot of […]
Which kind of football will win?
The greatest football contest ever may not involve muscle pulls, concussions or cheerleaders in marginally scandalous costumes. It’s the coming struggle for which variety of football will be The Next Big Thing […]
Eva is disarming in ‘Sorry Baby’
By Jake Coyle AP Film Writer The first thing to love about writer-director-star Eva Victor’s extraordinary debut “Sorry, Baby” is how she, as the young professor Agnes, tries, and fails, to hide […]
What, CSUF in the Pac-12?
Reports have it that Texas State University has been invited to become the eighth school in the retooled Pac-12, a development which will allow it to compete (however successfully or unsuccessfully) at […]
More ‘universities’ in our towns?
There are community college campuses in Garden Grove, Huntington Beach and Westminster. As convenient as that it is, might it be even nicer if they were also universities? The idea is not […]
