Memorial Day, or Memorial Day weekend, is often thought of now as the “unofficial beginning of summer.” Thinking of it that way seems to me as an inappropriate appropriation of what’s intended […]
Here soon: ‘summertime blues’
Staley’s reset puts him in SF
By Josh Dubrow/AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Brandon Staley’s rise up the coaching ranks was meteoric, going from a Division III defensive coordinator to head coach in the […]
Festival as time travel device
The Ferris wheel and carousels at Garden Grove’s annual Strawberry Festival are not just carnival devices to me. They’re more like colorful time machines. Every Memorial Day weekend the area in and […]
“IF” imperfect but charming
By Jocelyn Novice/ AP National Writer How do you make a kid’s movie that appeals not only to the kids, but the adults sitting next to them? Most movies try to achieve […]
Kevin Pillar stands up for Angels
By Stephen Hawkins/AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Kevin Pillar tucked a keepsake ball into his bag from his 1,000th career hit that meant even more to him than just putting […]
64th Strawberry Festival salutes ‘hometown’
By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune The annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival is now old enough for Medicare and like a lot of “mature” people today, is showing no signs of slowing down. […]
Tasty rematches on NFL menu
By Joe Reed/AP Sports Writer Even though the Super Bowl rematch between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers will not occur until almost the midpoint of the season, NFL fans […]
K-9 training center is born
By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune Police dogs – whether they’re the “apprehension” kind that help arrest bad guys or sniff out drugs, or the “support” kind variety that calm and comfort people […]
Let’s fix those broken cliches
Will Rogers once said that “It’s not so much what people don’t know that’s the problem; it’s what they think that ain’t so.” Well, ain’t that the truth? There so much that’s […]
Six very early NFL questions
We were in Oggi’s at Chapman and Harbor on Monday for lunch and one of the 500 (slight exaggeration) or so TV screen announced that it was 115 more days until opening […]
