Disney’s “Christopher Robin” will come to life on the big screen as Dana Point launches its Movies in the Park series on Friday, June 21 at Lantern Bay Park. Enjoy an evening under the stars, reminiscent of the old drive-in movies, but on the grass. Bring a low back chair or blanket. Free popcorn and…
Five years before he would be charged with fraud conspiracy, with his name included in a parade of actresses, financiers and executives accused of ripping off some of the country’s top colleges, Toby MacFarlane was nearly undone by an email. In August 2014, USC’s athletic department received an…
Q. Hi Honk: I recently got a new California driver’s license. Do the latest licenses meet the REAL ID requirements? – Cliff Harris, Anaheim A. Yes. Those who have gone to a Department of Motor Vehicles office since April 30, armed with the proper documents, are OK. A mess was created when the Department of…
A man estimated to be in his 40s was found dead in Westminster Thursday night, and police were investigating his death as a possible homicide. Officers were dispatched to the area of Locust Street and Westminster Boulevard at about 10:05 p.m. Thursday and found the man’s body. He had suffered facial injuries, said Westminster Sgt….
To his critics, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter has been too much of an activist in the way he has handled ongoing federal lawsuits that have affected the way homeless people are treated in Orange County. But now that Carter has been disqualified in one of the two key cases, and replaced with U.S….
A lifeguard tower at the famed Wedge surf spot in Newport Beach burned early Thursday. The simple elevated wooden structure with the letter “W” on its outer walls was a well-known sight and served as a lookout for lifeguards scanning the Wedge’s famously outsized waves. But about two hours before…
Everything about Orange County’s first pride parade and festival in 1989 was a question mark: Where would the event be? How long should the parade be? What should the response to protesters be? Naive about how to throw a community celebration – Where do you even get that many portable restrooms from? – members of…
Jim Pike, co-founder and lead singer of the Lettermen, whose lush vocal harmonies made the Grammy-nominated trio one of the most popular vocal groups of the 1960s, has died at age 82. Pike died June 9 at his home in Prescott, Ariz., his sister-in-law Becky Pike told the Associated Press. The cause…
Celebrities, it does not get any more basic than this: Live by the nude selfie, die by the nude selfie. I am always befuddled by the outrage of (almost always female) celebrities whose phones or cloud storage accounts have been invaded by (almost always male) creeps who try to profit somehow from…
The wealthy couple willing to pay him millions lived in Beijing, but William “Rick” Singer needed only to go to Pasadena to find them. Michael Wu, a financial advisor for banking behemoth Morgan Stanley, worked on the seventh floor of an office building in the city outside Los Angeles. Wu specialized…
