Matt Sorum recalls the exact moment he realized he wanted to be a drummer. He was sitting on the couch with his mom, dad and older brothers, Mark and Mike, eating handfuls of popcorn and watching “The Ed Sullivan Show” as they did every Sunday night in their Long Beach home in 1965. The Beatles…
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Members of the Brea Police department and community volunteers joined together to help with landscaping at the new headquarters of Together We Rise in Brea on Saturday, April 23, 2022. The organization’s mission is to transform the way youth navigate through the foster care system. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer) Brea police officer Macy…
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1. Divide and repot Cymbidium orchids. Although Cymbidiums bloom in the winter, their flowers may continue to develop through April, but usually they are done by May. Keep in mind that a Cymbidium blooms best when crowded, so it should completely fill the pot before you divide it. Cymbidium flower spikes grow from pseudobulbs that…
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Heera, the young adult protagonist of Devi S. Laskar’s “Circa,” often seems haunted as she watches one person after another in her life die or disappear. The facts of the novel are not autobiographical, but the story was born out of Laskar’s suffering and loss including a close friend who died of leukemia. In 2010,…
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Only now has Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra pulled back the curtain, opened a window into what was happening behind closed doors in January, February, early March, before Victor Oladipo made this return, before Jimmy Butler and Tyler Herro found themselves in a playoff alignment alongside Oladipo, as conversation swirled about too many alphas souring…
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John Moorlach in John Wayne’s booth at Gulliver’s Restaurant in Irvine. (Photo by Teri Sforza) This was John Wayne’s favorite booth, the server says. It’s all dark and rustic and Jolly Old England; the Duke himself gazes from a framed portrait over the table, pensive beneath his cowboy hat. The server wrests the table from…
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It takes only three letters to explain why the idea of single payer health insurance keeps getting shot down quickly in the California Legislature: EDD. No program in state, city or local government has shown itself less competent over the last few years than the state Employment Development Department’s unemployment insurance system, which lost a…
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By MARK KENNEDY While many of John Gallagher Jr.’s peers went to college, he didn’t. His university became “Spring Awakening.” Gallagher spent much of what would have been his prime college years — from 20 to 23 — starring in the original, envelop-pushing Broadway show that musicalized teen angst. “It was an education,” he said.…
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Here came another heartwarming chapter in the Victor Oladipo Story. Yes, it’s a capital letter now. A Story. Put it in the Disney motif of wholesome lessons and positive themes and, as the Miami Heat playoffs progress, ever-expanding possibilities. It just keeps getting better. Oladipo had 10 fourth-quarter points to close the Heat’s Game 2…
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Chicago White Sox reliever Matt Foster entered Wednesday’s City Series game in a tight spot. The Sox led by a run in the eighth inning, but the Cubs had runners on first and third with one out and right fielder Seiya Suzuki at the plate. “My first game plan coming in for Suzuki was just…
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