By Joel Rosenblatt It took only a couple of tweets to plunge Elon Musk into the morass of a securities fraud trial that could cost him billions of dollars from his rapidly diminishing fortune. The Tesla Inc. chief executive officer is set to be the star witness at a jury trial that starts Tuesday in…
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New Year’s Eve has come and gone, but the Lunar New Year is almost upon us and it’s one of the most important celebrations in many Asian cultures. This year marks the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac and the Lunar New Year begins on Sunday, January 22. To welcome the Year of…
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Orange County boys athlete of the week: Name: Ryland Whitworth School: Fountain Valley Sport: Wrestling Year: Junior Noteworthy: He finished first at 195 pounds in the Five Counties wrestling tournament last week at Fountain Valley High School. Earlier this season Whitworth finished second at the Zinkin Classic tournament in Clovis, seventh at the Doc Buchanan Invitational…
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For 25 years, the National Park Service has awarded Save America’s Treasures grants to preserve import pieces of history, and starting this month, it is helping the county restore a more than 140-year-old landmark in Modjeska Canyon. A two-story stone house built in the 1870s by Joseph Pleasants is the oldest building at the Helena…
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Creating caramelized onions takes some time, so I classify this delicious pasta dish a weekend treat rather than a fast weekday entrée. These caramelized onions, the cornerstone of the dish, take about 30 minutes to prepare. Start with three pounds of yellow onions, peeled, and cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices through the root end. In a…
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Disneyland has started selling Magic Key annual passes again, but if history is any guide you’ll need to move fast and get lucky if you want to buy one. Disneyland reopened the online sales window for Magic Key annual passes on Tuesday, Jan. 17, according to the official Disneyland Magic Key Instagram page. Sign up…
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It’s no surprise that Matthew Salesses turned to basketball for his latest novel, “The Sense of Wonder.” The author grew up in Storrs, the hometown of the perpetually basketball-obsessed University of Connecticut. He got his bachelor’s degree at the University of North Carolina — Michael Jordan’s old stomping grounds — and his Ph.D. at the…
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Pop icon Madonna announced the dates of her highly anticipated Madonna: The Celebration Tour, which will highlight four decades of massive hits. The global tour includes a stop at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Sep. 27. The “Material Girl” announced the tour with a video on Instagram Tuesday morning, that included a nod…
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The biggest mistake that any corporate leader can make is to believe that customer service is someone else’s job. The bigger the organization and the higher up you go, the more customers a manager must accommodate. That’s why large organizations such as Disney rely on an enormous amount of collected data to analyze their customers’…
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The 4:31 a.m. jolt hit Los Angeles from 11 miles deep, shaking the city from its slumber with a temblor that would kill 57 people, injure 9,000, topple freeways, ignite fires, set off landslides and inflict $24 to $93 billion in damage to homes, businesses, utilities, roads and even parks. The Jan. 17, 1994 Northridge…
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