Pacific Symphony probes Bruckner's Ninth
The latest installment of the Pacific Symphony's educational "Music Unwound" series attempted to engage the average listener in the music of the great Austrian symphonist Anton Bruckner. A tall order....
View ArticleA garage for auto memento enthusiasts
It wasn't as if lifelong auto buffs Don O'Connell and Karen Parish weren't shopping for a new house. They were, but it was the garage they were focused on in their Anaheim Hills search. "We would have...
View ArticleTop gardening trends
There is an interesting report out on garden trends by Kairos Futures, an international research and management-consulting firm that was co-sponsored by Gardena.com (manufacturer of tools) and...
View ArticleFebruary's Hits and Misses (Photos)
For the shortest month in the calendar, February certainly packed in the sports news: a super Super Bowl, a star-studly NBA All-Star game, crunch time in college basketball and the pleasant start of...
View ArticleEx-Angel Edmonds is last man standing
In 1997, David Howard was a .241 hitter who had 10 extra-base hits in 80 games. On June 10, with two out in the fifth inning and Kansas City runners on first and second, two Angels outfielders,...
View ArticleCelebrity mash-up: Sheen spouts more
CBS cancelling his show for the season didn't shut Charlie Sheen up, no siree. The actor turned crazy person was all over the place Friday, spouting off. "They have awoken a sleeping giant," he texted...
View ArticleNine sports topics for the weekend
My head is spinning right now. Between the NFL Scouting Combine, the just-passed NBA trade deadline, and baseball's spring training, there is so much to pay attention to, and so little time. Here's my...
View ArticleExperts: California not Wisconsin, but benefits unsustainable
Unlike Wisconsin, California stands virtually no chance of stripping public school teachers and other unionized employees of their collective contract-negotiating rights. But like Wisconsin, the...
View ArticlePlay ball! Opening ceremonies Saturday for Irvine Pony
Opening day ceremonies are scheduled for Saturday at 10:15 a.m. for Irvine Pony Baseball at Harvard Park. "We will be honoring our all-star teams that earned banners through their tournament success...
View ArticleFinal: Lakers 108, Clippers 95
Kobe Bryant wore a sleeve over his lower right arm all through his 2007-08 NBA MVP season. Maybe it’s just the thing for the Lakers to add to this season. in the Lakers’ 108-95 victory over the...
View ArticleDucks heading in wrong direction
ANAHEIM – Solving the problem of losing is now on the board for the Ducks, next to solving their problems in goal. With every other contender in the Western Conference playoff picture seemingly gaining...
View ArticleMurray gets extension
ANAHEIM – Bob Murray might be like predecessor Brian Burke in a number of ways, but there's one clear difference between the two hockey executives.Murray, the Ducks general manager, wants to be...
View ArticleWhat we've learned in a year of Sundays
One year ago, we started this adventure we call The Register's Sunday Real Estate section.It was a year of housing tax breaks -- up to $8,000 per shopper -- and 4 percent fixed-rate mortgages. Plus,...
View ArticleWas couple's home offer even presented?
Randy Johnson, president of Independence Mortgage Co. in Newport Beach, author of "How to Save Thousands of Dollars on Your Home Mortgage" and a mortgage broker since 1983, answers questions from...
View ArticleWalter E. Williams: Public vs. private unions
With the union strife in Wisconsin, Indiana and New Jersey, and indications of more to come, it might be time to shed a bit of light on unions as an economic unit. First, I value freedom of...
View ArticleNumber of O.C. homes bought with cash hits a record
Cash is king when it comes to Orange County real estate, blogger Jon Lansner reports. January marked the highest level of cash buyers for Orange County homes in DataQuick's statistical archive that...
View ArticleIrvine man to join Fisher & Phillips LLP
Fisher & Phillips LLP, one of the nation's largest law firms in the field of labor and employment law, has announced the addition of a new associate to its Irvine office: Matthew Sgnilek."We are...
View ArticleGary Jason: U.S. role in food inflation, riots
The economist and CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow kicked a hornets' nest when he suggested last month that the riots breaking out in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Yemen were caused not just...
View ArticleFormer Nic Cage home selling for cheaper
Real estate blogger Jeff Collins recently reported...A Newport Beach mansion formerly owned by Nicolas Cage is now selling for $6.5 million less than the record $35 million that the movie actor got...
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