Kids were caught in the middle of a brawl at Disneyland as adults threw punches and delivered kicks while bumping into baby strollers during a fistfight in Fantasyland between the Monstro whale and the spinning teacup ride. A fight involving at least five adults broke out on Sunday, Oct. 15 in the kiddie land of…
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NORFOLK — “I see him!” exclaimed 8-year-old Penelope Holbert, vigorously waving. Her father, Petty Officer 1st Class Drew Holbert waved back from a platform at the stern of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Holbert, an aviation structural mechanic, was one of 5,000 sailors who deployed Saturday aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower — the flagship…
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By Taryn Phaneuf | NerdWallet TikTok trends don’t lie: Whether they’re “quiet quitting” or adopting “Bare Minimum Monday” to combat the “Sunday scaries,” people are pulling back at work. In one sense, making work a smaller part of life is a permanent shift that people working from home experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, says Cristina…
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Anaheim graduate named 18 Under 18 changes lives of foster children A recent graduate of Sage Oak Charter High School, Hannah Karanick of Anaheim was awarded the 18 Under 18 Award by National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS), a scholarship that recognizes young students who spread positivity and show leadership in their communities through…
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It was a perfect storm of, well, pretty perfect storms. There was a lot of rain and snow during California’s just completed “water year,” from Oct. 1, 2022 to Sept. 30 — nearly double the historical average in the southern half of the state. But all of that rain didn’t fall too fast, and snowpack-melting…
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“Numerology” tries to find reality within various measurements of economic and real estate trends. Buzz: California’s employment picture has cooled to either (1) a new normal or (2) a worrisome slowdown. Source: My trusty spreadsheet crafted the “HQF” index to loosely measure statewide tensions in the workplace. The math, taken from some novel federal job…
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Interference and fidelity have been the bane of AM radio broadcasters and listeners since the medium was developed in the early 1900s. In fact, what drove Edwin Armstrong to invent FM radio was that he hated the sound of AM, which he also helped develop. Over the years, technical improvements have helped make AM sound…
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In a warehouse located on the corner of Slauson Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard in South Central Los Angeles, electronic music fan and up-and-coming promoter Pasquale Rotella threw his first Insomniac rave in 1993. It was a DIY labor of love for which he personally handed out flyers that included a phone number for people to…
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A million dollars couldn’t entice a Fountain Valley woman to sell her house of 40 years even though she’d rather down-size and move closer to her children and grandchildren. It’s not because of the sentimental value of the family homestead. And it’s not because she still needs four bedrooms, 2 ½ bathrooms and a big…
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Over his 70 years in music, Pat Boone has almost always sung covers of pop and R&B and country – songs written by other people. Heck, he even did a whole album of heavy metal covers once. But every so often, a song just … appears. “It came to me in a dream literally,” says…
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