Although division champions Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees won’t start their post-season play until Saturday, much of the baseball-watching world – sportswriters, fans, bookies, TV executives – is already holding […]
Editor’s note: Second part of Retort’s new “Kudos and Komplaints.” Here are the Komplaints. Read on for the Delights and Disappointments. I don’t care for campaign signs. I realize that “name recognition” […]
A debut of a new Retorts feature: Kudos and Komplaints pointing out what’s worthy – in my opinion – of praise or worth of gripes. Tunnel We Love: The pedestrian tunnel (between […]
Sometimes, it’s a good idea to say what you think. Angels manager Ron Washington got in a spot of trouble this week when he suggested that the Halos didn’t have major league-quality […]
By Lindsey Bahr/AP Film Writer If anything is clear about “Megalopolis,” it’s that Francis Ford Coppola has a lot on his mind. The legendary filmmaker spent decades on this Roman-style epic, set […]
As the 2024 area high school football team reaches the halfway-mark, a bunch of the teams representing schools serving our West Orange County cities are idle this weekend. Since several of them […]
Ten people, including two professors, will face misdemeanor charges of refusing to disperse as police tried to clear the University of California, Irvine campus of encampments in May created to demonstrate for […]
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer The overriding tension in “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival fixers brought in to clean up the same crime, isn’t so much the threat […]
MIAMI (AP) — Shohei Ohtani became the first player in major league history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season when he homered three times and stole […]
By Mark Kennedy/AP Entertainment Writer Movie origin stories finally reach their nadir this week with “Transformers One,” the super-violent, toy-selling vehicle that tells the tale of how Optimus Prime and Megatron went […]
