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Avoiding peak travel season is one of the best ways to save money on your next vacation. Yet visiting Norway in January isn’t everybody’s idea of a good time — however cheap the airfare. That’s where traveling during shoulder seasons comes in: These tourist seasons that fall on either side of peak travel dates have…
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Disneyland has some catching up to do if it hopes to make good on a promise to cut ticket prices in 2023 after offering fewer low-priced days during the first half of this year. Disneyland officials announced last week that the Anaheim theme park will offer nearly two months of dates in 2023 with daily…
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In the dark of night, two boats were loaded with safety gear, film crews and the world’s best big-wave surfers, the expedition setting out on a super secret strike mission to find a mysterious “ghost wave.” Forecasts were showing a small break in the back-to-back bomb cyclones on Jan. 13, when the relentless rains should…
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Irvine-based Families Forward has completed an affordable housing community called The Bungalows in Costa Mesa. The eight-unit facility was built to help homeless families, offering them a place to “get a fresh start in the new year,” according to the nonprofit. The construction project included rehabbing six existing units and adding two accessory dwelling units…
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UCLA and Cal have wrapped up their revenue-and-expense reports for the 2022 fiscal year, as required by the NCAA. The numbers, both eye-opening and entirely predictable, provide an epilogue to the drama that played out over five months with the University of California Board of Regents, the so-called Berkeley tax, the lure of the Big…
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  The Twitter Files are making news and making history, simultaneously. Elon Musk, who bought the publicly traded social media company and took it private in October, was sharply criticized by employees he fired, and others, for his decision to change content moderation policies. He responded on Twitter by writing, “Twitter has failed in trust…
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A film festival in San Clemente will put a spotlight on women surfers, highlighting challenges the wave riders faced through the decades, as well as how they are shaping the future of the sport. The San Clemente Women’s Surf Film Festival, which this year includes a daytime Sandy Sip and Shop arts and crafts fair,…
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Regal is preparing to close 39 more U.S. theaters, including four in Southern California and seven in the Bay Area, after parent company Cineworld announced it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September. The latest list comes on the heels of dozens of other theaters that have already been shuttered, including Anaheim Hills 14,…
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The sixth annual Women’s March will once again see thousands of people gather for multiple rallies across the nation this weekend, this time on Roe v. Wade’s diamond anniversary – though in Southern California, the events seem as if they could be muted compared to past events. The marches for women’s rights is scheduled for…
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Q. On many semitrucks there are lug-nut covers in the shape of sharp bullets sticking far out from the truck. These seem dangerous. Why are they allowed? – Robert C. Jinkens, Balboa Island A. “They’re plastic,” said Jake Sanchez, a California Highway Patrol officer and spokesman who Honk goes to for questions about big rigs. “They…
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