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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A tongue-in-cheek TikTok video shows Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford casually throwing a football more than 300 yards down Main Street U.S.A. after a Super Bowl victory parade at Disneyland —an impossible feat so absurd it barely needs a “fake news” label. Stafford and his teammates Cooper Kupp and Aaron Donald filmed the spoof TikTok video…
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You may be surprised to learn that I just petted a whale. That’s right, I said whale, not dog or cat or gerbil. Whales generally live in the ocean and are quite hard to get close to, so it requires a somewhat involved journey to go to the one place on the planet where you…
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For the second game in a row, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was caught unmasked at a Rams game — the 70,000-attendee Super Bowl — following a trend of powerful California Democrats doing the same. At the AFC Championship two weeks prior, pictures of an unmasked Garcetti leaked, along with San Francisco Mayor London…
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One word that looks like it will never be associated with “Hardware,” the current solo album from Billy F. Gibbons, is calculated. Far from having a concept for the album, when Gibbons (the singer/guitarist of ZZ Top), drummer Matt Sorum (of Guns N’ Roses) and bassist Austin Hanks arrived at the studio near Joshua Tree,…
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