Las Vegas Playboy Club to close
Our fabulous compilation of real estate news and views that make you go "Really?" goes regional …… If it's Friday, it's "Really? Vegas style!" Playboy Club at Las Vegas casino to close in June —...
View ArticleToday’s cartoons: High prices gassing the economy
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View ArticleBatteries to keep signals straight
PLACENTIA – The city is eliminating any your turn-my turn confusion when power knocks out traffic lights, at least along two major streets.The city will spend $80,700 to have battery back-ups installed...
View ArticleMan faces molestation, porn charges
SANTA ANA – An Anaheim man is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on charges of molesting two boys and videotaping the sexual assaults, and of having graphic amateur and commercial child pornography...
View ArticleGetting your walls dressed
Among the more daunting elements of decor there is the matter of art. What do you say to a naked wall? For some with a good eye and strong visceral reactions (plus deep pockets if you shop Sotheby's or...
View ArticleComing up: Lady Antebellum, Magnetic Fields, Burgerama in O.C.
• Lady Antebellum -- There are only two truly major country shows still ahead before Stagecoach rolls back into California: Dierks Bentley on April 13 at Nokia Theatre and, more immediately, the...
View ArticlePacific Symphony celebrates Persian New Year
There appeared to be a little naming problem with this week's Pacific Symphony programs. They are part of the orchestra's annual American Composers Festival and yet dedicated to the theme of Nowruz,...
View ArticleO.C. native Aimee Phan writes novel about reeducation camps
Aimee Phan knows that uncovering the family secrets doesn't always make things better. That's what she has discovered in her own life, and that's the story she tells in her debut novel, "The...
View ArticleKardashian attacked by flour bomber
Kim Kardashian was more covered up than anyone can remember on Thursday night. And it wasn’t by choice. The bombshell got flour-bombed in West Hollywood as she arrived on the red carpet to celebrate...
View ArticleIs stardom wilting Jennifer Lawrence?
Is rising star Jennifer Lawrence wilting under all the “Hunger Games” hype? Lawrence, who plays a fierce teen warrior in the big-screen sci-fi epic, “has been displaying a deep ambivalence toward her...
View ArticleGrey's Anatomy stars at The Actors Fund show
Several members of the cast of the ABC TV drama "Grey's Anatomy" took part in "The Songs Beneath the Show," a concert benefiting The Actors Fund, a nationwide human services organization for people who...
View ArticleAngels’ Isringhausen’s elbow, career hanging on
TEMPE, Ariz. – His right elbow, the business elbow, apparently has not heard about the three-knockdown rule. It keeps getting up, shaking it off, bringing its owner, Jason Isringhausen, back to another...
View ArticleWoodard, Hawn, Weedman, Silva punch semifinal tickets at Bellator 62
Lloyd Woodard pushed Patricky “Pitbull” Freire to the breaking point — and then went a little bit further. Woodard submitted Freire with a gruesome second-round kimura in the Bellator Fighting...
View ArticleFamous bridges in the U.S.
A method of passage from one point to another for millennia, many bridges around the world are architectural and engineering wonders. In the U.S., more than a few are not only vital for transportation,...
View ArticleLakers’ Sessions soars in first start
LOS ANGELES – Who should get the next statue outside Staples Center, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or Ramon Sessions? Who should have his jersey number retired next, Shaquille O'Neal or Ramon Sessions? The...
View ArticleMark Landsbaum: Don’t muzzle ‘special interests’
Sometimes, good intentions bring bad results. Such is the case with the so-called Stop Special Interest Money Now initiative – a promise to fix what ails California politics by unconstitutionally...
View ArticleSpark of Innovation: Sue Neuen, Science@OC, Yorba Linda
Editor's note: Some of the best jobs require skills in math, science, technology and engineering, but local business leaders and educators are concerned whether there will be enough students interested...
View ArticleMorning letters: Throw Obama a bone for his successes
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Steve Bell: Listening to my friends berate President Obama is becoming as tedious as hearing the neighbors dog barking. If John McCain were president we would, according to his own...
View ArticleMarch 24 celebrity birthdays
See some of the people celebrating birthdays today. Notable personalities of the past who were born on this date can be found at the end of this slideshow. SEE BIRTHDAYS FOR A PREVIOUS DATE Celebrities...
View ArticleGallery: Obama March cartoons
With high gas prices, Middle East turmoil, birth control and Obamacare, it's been March Madness for the president
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