In less than a month, it will be Valentine’s Day. Just in case you haven’t noticed, there are whole aisles in Vons and CVS devoted to this annual, highly commercialized celebration of […]
How to get/keep love alive
Our local ‘believe it or not’
Can you believe that … • The Westminster City Council spent hours recently arguing over when the Republic of (South) Vietnam become independent? That one of those arguing – who has been […]
The shape of things to come
If you can tune your ears to something other than the beer commercials, endless time-filling chatter on the sports networks and endless speculation on just what the heck has happened of Stetson […]
‘Mean Girls’ back with a song
By Jocelyn Noveck/AP National Writer The first “Mean Girls,” that compulsively watchable high-school based social satire by Tina Fey, came out in 2004. The Broadway musical opened in 2018. Now it’s 2024, […]
So close … and we ain’t Lion
By Dave Hogg/Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Everything was in place for Matthew Stafford. The Los Angeles Rams quarterback was at Ford Field in front of a massive crowd with a chance […]
Buzz isn’t good for ‘Beekeeper’
By Jake Coyle/AP Film Writer Secret agents and murderous assassins seem to lurk in increasingly mundane places. Remember “The Accountant” with Ben Affleck? Or “The Tax Collector” with Shia LaBeouf? Or more […]
What you need to do in 2024
One of the biggest clichés of January is the New Year’s resolution thing. Quitting smoking. Losing weight. Stop procrastinating. Clearing out the clutter. Stop being so negative. And on and on. The […]
Power, fear in ‘Teacher’s Lounge’
By Jocelyn Noveck/AP National Writer What happens in the teachers’ lounge, anyway? When we were kids, that closed door seemed so tantalizingly forbidding, though it probably only hid some coffee-sipping, light chitchat […]
The Rams in the Lions’ den
By Greg Beacham/AP Sports Writer THOUSAND OAKS (AP) — Matthew Stafford arrived in Detroit as a hotshot 21-year-old quarterback. He left three years ago as a grown man with a wife and […]
Playoff: the more the merrier
Well, I’m glad that’s over. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy watching the College Football Playoff championship game on Monday, but I grumble to myself about how long it took to get […]
