For several hours this weekend, there will be zero cars on nearly two miles of roadway along Barranca Parkway and Harvard Avenue in Irvine. Instead, runners, walkers, cyclists and skaters — and maybe even some four-legged friends — will power down that stretch from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 4. Dubbed “CicloIrvine,”…
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As the June 15 constitutional deadline for enacting a 2024-25 state budget approaches, the good news for Gov. Gavin Newsom is that all-important income tax revenues in April slightly exceeded the administration’s $16.3 billion assumption. Even so, the bad news is that overall revenues from income, sales and corporate taxes are still running $6 billion…
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As the academic year draws to a close, protests have broken out on college campuses across the country. Students are protesting Israel’s actions in Gaza. Generally, they are calling for the United States government to stop arming and funding the war and, in the meantime, for their universities to divest from Israeli businesses. The current…
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Mother’s Day isn’t just one brunch and done. Restaurant reservation company OpenTable looked into its data for 2023 and concluded it was last year’s biggest holiday, followed by the day before, with many women dining out more than once with kids, friends or by themselves. The holiday is popular across the board, but particularly with…
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Over the past week, Fabiola, a sophomore at Columbia, joined an encampment on her university’s quad, risked suspension and disrupted campus life, all in an effort to draw attention to the Palestinian cause. She describes stopping Israel’s deadly siege of the Gaza Strip as a moral duty — an urgent imperative around which she has…
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The UCLA football program has finished its first spring camp with DeShaun Foster at the helm. Here are a few things we’ve learned after watching and observing how things played out in recent weeks: WARM WELCOME Foster has not only been up to the task of retaining the talent on the roster since taking over…
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The restaurant group behind the recently shuttered Tortilla Jo’s Mexican-style cantina is working on several opportunities at Downtown Disney as the company fights off competition from one of its fiercest rivals. “We are working with Disney on many opportunities throughout Downtown Disney and through their new vision,” Patina Restaurant Group President John “JK” Kolaski said.…
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A historic, weeklong protest at UCLA in solidarity with war-battered Gaza was over Thursday morning, May 2, just hours after waves of police in riot gear dismantled demonstrators’ massive encampment outside Royce Hall and detained dozens from a crowd estimated in the low thousands. By daybreak, some students, a few draped in and carrying Palestinian…
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The average rate on a 30-year mortgage climbed this week to its highest level in more than five months, pushing up borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers in what’s typically the housing market’s busiest stretch of the year. The rate rose to 7.22% from 7.17% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago,…
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Battling against 400 students from 48 states, four students from the Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana won top honors at this year’s National ProStart Invitational, the country’s largest high school culinary and restaurant management contest. Emily Leo, Max Madsen, Tira Smith and Cynthia Zhou of Orange County School of the Arts…
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