2012 starts slow for Costa Mesa homebuying
Costa Mesa real estate for sale looks flat recently. For the 22 business days ending Feb. 6 -- latest DataQuick stats -- 53 residences sold in Costa Mesa vs. 52 deals closed in the matching period a...
View ArticleO.C. bankruptcies continue decline
In January, 1,348 individuals and businesses filed for bankruptcy protection, 9.8% fewer than a year earlier, according to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. Still, the...
View ArticleJavier Colon, winner of ‘The Voice,' plays Coach House tonight
Javier Colon, winner of the first season of NBC-TV's singing competition "The Voice," will perform Friday night at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. The show will begin at 8 p.m. at 33157 Camino...
View ArticleBigger housing slump: Fullerton or Brea?
Homebuying is slow in Fullerton and Bea -- even slower that a lethargic countywide market! For the 22 business days ending Feb. 6, DataQuick saw countywide median selling price of $390,000, down 6.0%...
View ArticleOh say can you hook your favorite Dr. Seuss book?
What can I say? At the end of the day, there is nothing better than sitting together and reading a book with my son I call Phrook. Or, at least, that's what I call him when I'm trying to rhyme with...
View ArticleIs 'The Lorax' political, or just a fun, family movie?
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not." They are classic words from one of our most classically celebrated children’s authors that are being...
View ArticleLearn galactic survival skills at Star Wars Fan Day on Saturday
From Boba Fett to Stormtroopers, having a Star Wars fan in the house means knowing a totally different language, and memorizing a slew of names and details. Whether you're also a fan or not, it's...
View ArticleCautious optimism shadows recovery
The Great Recession was not kind to the vehicle business. In Orange County, new vehicle sales were basically halved from 2005 to 2009, according to the Orange County Automobile Dealers Association. On...
View ArticleSunny, warmer with gusty mountain winds
Orange County weather makes an abrupt turn for the weekend: sunny skies with highs pushing into the 80s and strong winds near the mountains and foothills. The warmer weather is the work of a...
View ArticleGreek Theatre, Gibson Amphitheatre unveil season lineups
Some of these gigs, chiefly a chunk of the classic rock stuff at the Greek, we already knew: In the past couple weeks, everything from the triptych of REO Speedwagon, Styx and Ted Nugent and the...
View ArticleCelebrate St. Patrick's Day
Most people start to feel at least a little Irish as St. Patrick's Day celebrations come around each March. Congress proclaimed in 1991 that March would be observed annually as Irish-American Heritage...
View ArticleO.C.’s Aquabats go from stage to screen
The MC Bat Commander is in trouble. The BattleTram is haunted by a ghost that has captured him, leaving his fellow Aquabats – Crash McLarson, Ricky Fitness, Eagle "Bones" Falconhawk and Jimmy the Robot...
View ArticleFiddler fleeced while he plays
Joshua Bell is going to remember Leap Day 2012. The Grammy-winning violinist was involuntarily separated from his $38,000 Breuget watch, along with his laptop and a bundle of cash, when a thief entered...
View ArticleBaseball 2012: Woodbridge trying to re-load
It was a memorable 2011 for Woodbridge's baseball team, which advanced to the CIF Division 3 title game for the first time in school history. The Warriors lost to Beckman, 4-1, at Dodger Stadium, but...
View ArticleDucks' Beauchemin has got the time
ANAHEIM – Ryan Getzlaf fired the shot. How loud it reverberates, we'll find out Saturday night. All we know is that the captain, so judicious in saving his bullets, squeezed off a game-winner that...
View ArticleLast-minute goal lifts Ducks past Flames
ANAHEIM – The big slap shot finally found the back of the net, and a primal scream was let out by the big center who possesses that rocket launcher but rarely seems to score with it. Ryan Getzlaf did...
View ArticleSteven Greenhut: What's a little fraud to save the Earth?
SACRAMENTO – If the theory of man-made global warming were such a self-obvious truth, the result of scientific consensus, then why do its advocates keep committing fraud to advance it? Even more...
View ArticleJay Ambrose: Campaign substance lost in media melodrama
You've got to have an "able, disinterested, public-spirited press" if popular government is to be something more than "a sham and mockery," Joseph Pulitzer once said. Is there hope? Well, yes, there's...
View ArticleLibrary renamed for Mendez plaintiff Lorenzo Ramirez
Dozens of family members, neighbors and supporters of a plaintiff in a 1945 school desegregation case gathered in the El Modena High Schoollibrary Friday for a ceremony renaming the building in his...
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