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Buena Park’s Silverado Days continues Sunday with entertainment and festivities filling Peak Park. Already visitors have been enjoying contests such as pie eating and cutest baby; they’ve been shopping the marketplace of crafts and local businesses; and they’ve been thrilled by the carnival rides. Community performers and bands have been entertaining the crowds throughout the…
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While Ethan Garbers started at quarterback and Carson Steele scored three touchdowns and served as the focal point in the UCLA football team’s victory over Stanford, it was edge rusher Laiatu Latu and the Bruins’ defense that continued to display their dominance. The defense allowed just 24 total rushing yards on 17 carries along with…
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Recapping the best and worst of the Pac-12 in Week 8 … Theme of the week I: CFP scenarios No two-loss team has ever made the College Football Playoff, so the Pac-12 was guaranteed to lose a contender with the USC-Utah duel matching one-loss teams. The result? It’s Oct. 22, and the Trojans (6-2) are…
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In the wake of Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel, many colleges and universities seem to have suddenly rediscovered the value of free speech and academic freedom.  After a terrible free-speech track record over the last decade, schools like Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Florida have now issued statements defending free expression. They have even…
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There’s an expression regarding giving birth to one’s authentic self. My birthing was laborious, bringing forth perhaps what you think you see is a plus-size babe, but that’s an optical illusion if you acknowledge that television makes one look 10 pounds heavier, and I have three TV’s. So yes, I shot my scale, but they…
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Fast food and racing car fans descended on Pomona on Sunday, Oct. 22, for a 12-hour festival marking the 75th anniversary of In-N-Out Burger. It took place at the In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip, which is on the grounds of the Fairplex. The event was a big production with a car show, car racing, live bands,…
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Although much of the work to address California’s homelessness crisis takes place at the local level, legislators in Sacramento sought to address the crisis this past year as well. According to local 2023 Point in Time Counts, homelessness grew 9% in 2022 in Los Angeles County, 12% in Riverside County, and 26% in San Bernardino County. Orange…
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When Sana Sirodan and her team launched Greenplace landscaping services out of Costa Mesa earlier this year after immigrating from Ukraine due to the war, she said they opted for all-electric equipment from the start. They knew their new home state of California was pivoting away from polluting leaf blowers, lawn mowers and other gear…
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Screams in the night. A gunshot. Ambulance sirens. These sounds still haunt the little neighborhood of Santa Ana Heights. It happened in the wee hours of the morning on a warm August night in 2021, when a delirious 23-year-old (who should have been in something more like a hospital) bolted from a licensed Newport Beach…
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“Girl Jews are not as bad as boy Jews,” he told me in a knowing tone.  I was in the fourth grade at Willard Elementary School in Norfolk, Virginia, when a classmate uttered this. He had only just learned that I was Jewish. Jews were a small minority in my suburban town in the 1950s,…
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