Student elections going on this week at the University of California, Davis, include a referendum to make the campus’s mascot a cow. The aim of the so-called MOOvement is not to tamper with the Aggies name — that would remain — but to change the mascot from Gunrock the Mustang to a cow. Organizers of…
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When she transferred as a junior to CSUF in Spring 2020, Evelyn Pohle walked into her differential equations and algebra class and her male professor mentioned how there were several female instructors who taught math. And women of color, to boot. The concept was new to Pohle, who attended Trabuco Hills High School and spent…
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In its bid for year-round attention domination, the NFL is down to one final conquest: June. Because as of now, that’s the only month during which there is no unofficial league holiday. April, of course, featured the NFL draft, which came a little more than a month after the free-agency frenzy of March, which happened…
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The moment could not have been scripted much better. Check that: the Chicago Cubs would like a rewrite on the ending. Frank Schwindel’s roller coaster 48-hour stretch took yet another twist Tuesday night against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. Optioned to Triple A on Sunday and recalled mere hours later — with a…
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It’s a thrilling location with a spectacular view of the ocean. Still, just before and during the pandemic, restaurants and beverage shops at Pacific City closed or paused and reopened, sometimes at a dizzying rate in the center and its Lot 579 Food Hall. Pacific City has decided to rethink some of its dining space…
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Californians likely will in November vote on yet another environmental initiative that promises to tackle climate change and pollution, yet which is unlikely to do more substantive than the usual ideas from Sacramento. It will raise taxes, hobble businesses, increase food costs and hand state agencies vast new regulatory powers. Opponents of the California…
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The ’80s-infused Cruel World Festival happening at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena May 14-15 just announced its set times, its three stages and also revealed on social media that “due to visa delays” Echo & the Bunnymen will no longer be performing, but the band “will be back at Cruel World 2023.” The…
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Supervisor Katrina Foley will continue to represent a newly created District 2 in central Orange County, rather than the area where voters elected her last year, after her Board of Supervisor colleagues ignored her request to ask the state Attorney General’s opinion on the timing of recent district boundary changes. Foley won a March 2021…
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OK, I promise this is the last one. No. Really. This time, it is. I just can’t stop telling these wedding disaster stories, because you all keep springing them on me. And they’re just too funny. I mean funny later — not funny when they happened. Well, maybe sometimes when they happened. But it was…
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When Dennis Hopper met Brooke Hayward on a Broadway stage in 1961, you wouldn’t have expected the two actors to connect, get married and help shape the cultural landscape of Los Angeles in the ’60s. Hopper was a wild card, a Method actor who’d made his Hollywood debut in “Rebel Without a Cause,” and at…
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