The K-pop stars Twice opened its show at the Forum on Tuesday with “The Feels,” the bouncy, bubbly song that’s the group’s first original English-language single. A bold move, maybe, opening the first show of the United States’ leg of their III Tour with a song that’s one of their most accessible tracks for American…
Read more
Orange County boys basketball’s top performers last week: Carlo Billings, Foothill, 5-11, Jr. G: He scored 15 points with seven rebounds as the Knights defeated Palm Springs in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 2AA playoffs. Billings scored a team-high 19 points with six rebounds in a second-round win over Marina. Cooper…
Read more
Now that the Super Bowl is over, many sports fans are turning their eyes to the emptiness that is supposed to be spring training. As you may have heard, pitchers and catchers were scheduled to report this week to camps in Arizona and Florida, but the owners continue to lock out the players until they…
Read more
The Cincinnati Bengals fell just short Sunday of winning their first Super Bowl title, but that doesn’t take away from what was one of the most surprising postseason runs in NFL history. Plenty of teams will be looking at the Bengals as a blueprint of sorts for how to build their rosters as they turn…
Read more
Whoever coined the phrase “getting there is half the fun” probably never cruised during a pandemic. With all the hoops to jump through before, during and sometimes even after sailing, a little less pleasure comes with taking a pleasure cruise these days. No matter how wonderful may be the ship, crew, food, ports, shore excursions,…
Read more
The storm may be clear and the sun may be beckoning a beach day, but health officials say stay clear of the funky water. The OC Health Care Agency issued a rain advisory on Wednesday, Feb. 16, following the previous night’s storm that sent rain, hail and wild weather to the region. Rain, the first…
Read more
As a native of South Africa, actor Sharlto Copley says he had only a vague recollection of Ted Kaczynski when the opportunity to play the American domestic terrorist onscreen came his way. “When they said, ‘It’s the Unabomber,’ I wasn’t sure which one he was,” Copley says. “I thought he was somebody who bombed a…
Read more
Following a successful inaugural year at the Temecula Stampede with Billy Ray Cyrus, Chris Janson, The Band Perry and more, the Old Town Music Festival will return in 2022 with headliners Nelly and Jamey Johnson June 11-12. The two-day, two-stage, all-ages event will feature 14 acts in all and include line dance lessons, mechanical bull…
Read more
The president of Santa Ana’s police union, Gerry Serrano, is one of the city’s highest-paid employees even though he does no police work for the city. Yet his nearly $500,000 in compensation isn’t enough for him. Public records show that he received help at the state’s highest levels in an attempt to boost his pension…
Read more
Bay Area pediatricians knew omicron was like nothing they’d seen before for their youngest patients, and a new study released Tuesday confirms their alarm: The highly contagious variant sent kids to U.S. hospitals at rates four times higher than delta, and rates were higher still for those under age 5, who are too young for…
Read more
