By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune With a “Back to the Future” theme, Garden Grove Mayor Steve Jones arrived in a DeLorean, clad – initially – like Marty McFly at Thursday’s “State of […]
As a history buff, I never tire of trying to convince people of the connection between their past, the present and the future. That was done rather adroitly on Wednesday at the […]
If you’re one of the many who watched the NCAA basketball finals on Sunday and Monday, perhaps you came away with two observations: the UConn men’s team was the most team-like team […]
By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune The latest iteration of the big lizard vs. big ape movies – “GodzillaXKong” – is in cinemas now, but to me a more interesting film concept is […]
The rain has lifted (mostly) and area high school baseball and softball is back in action with some teams in tournament play, some in league play and some in both. There have […]
I have recently emerged – along with my brilliant bride – from the darkest depths of today’s modern most heartless society: customer “service.” In too many settings, the term is an oxymoron, […]
We’re still in the “fantasy phase” of the 2024 Major League Baseball season in which everything – good or bad – is still possible. The Astros – as of Monday’s games – […]
Back in Rhode Island, where I come from, water was for fishing, not for swimming. No one in my family ever learned to swim once we moved out to the Pacific Coast, […]
Monday is April Fool’s Day. Of course, you might remark that during an election year, every day is April Fool’s Day and you’re not far from wrong. Here are a few favorite […]
It’s tournament time in the worlds of high school baseball and softball, but that is often the time for rain as well. The most prominent of those events – the Michelle Carew […]
