Drumming proves healing therapy for autism
There comes a time in every parent’s life when you’re forced to make a decision that can have a profoundly positive effect on your child, despite the fact that it may prove detrimental to you. You rise...
View ArticleAfterWork: Best of the downtown bars
In recent weeks, we have re-visited AfterWork's favorite beach bars and mall bars. Now it's time to go back and check out Orange County's downtown bars. It's a myth that the county has no downtown...
View ArticleCirque’s ‘Iris’ is a feast for the senses, not the brain
Cirque du Soleil and Hollywood were made for each other. Like America's dream factory, Quebec's super-successful alterna-circus has earned its reputation by bringing fantasies to life and making the...
View Article20 unforgettable TV season premieres
We were sitting around the newsroom talking about all the momentous events of 1969. Woodstock, the Apollo moon landing. But the real milestone came on this same date, Sept. 26: The debut of "The Brady...
View ArticlePhotographer to the stars
Zach Cordner booked his first “professional” gig at age 15 -- his inaugural assignment was a photo shoot with professional skater Paul De Jesus shredding the streets of downtown Riverside. One of the...
View ArticleSimple books help young kids make sense of divorce
Kids are hard work at any age, but it’s especially intense when they are toddlers. My girls were ages 1 and 2 when I left my ex. It was tough. But for what it’s worth, I think getting divorced when my...
View ArticleFind out who left ‘Dancing With The Stars’
The results show for "Dancing With The Stars" on Tuesday held extra interest for a few reasons, but perhaps most this: Chaz Bono, the most talked-about contestant this season, was in danger, having...
View ArticleNo girl-on-girl kissing here, Southwest says
Rihanna wasn’t the only star ruffling feathers with her public behavior. Leisha Hailey, a musician and actor best known for her role in “The L Word,” got booted off a Southwest Airlines flight Monday...
View ArticleRihanna goes topless in Irish farmer's field
An Irish farmer took a dim view of Rihanna’s bare-breasted dancing in the middle of his field. During a video shoot for the song “We Found Love,” Rihanna, dressed in a red kerchief bikini, reportedly...
View ArticleRamos on the road back to boxing
SANTA ANA – It's tough to love boxing, or anything else that has so much difficultly loving you back. The only trustworthy thing about it is the turnbuckle. It does not provide a pension. There is no...
View ArticleJilted fan says stay away, NBA, stay away
I don't really have a favorite team or player. But a favorite sport? That one's easy. Basketball. As a kid, I would shoot in the driveway until my fingertips split open. As an adult, I've played so...
View ArticleFormer Vaquero star DaVonte Young back in O.C. Thursday
Former Irvine football star DaVonte Young is getting ready for his first game in Orange County since leaving the program two years ago, his former guardian said in an email Tuesday night to...
View ArticleAngels pounded by Rangers' barrage of homers
ANAHEIM - Before they could get away, the Angels were reminded again of one that got away (sort of) and one they gave away (at least in some minds). Adrian Beltre and Mike Napoli combined for five hits...
View ArticleWalk to School Day to be held Wednesday in Tustin
Schools in Tustin will be participating in the 14th annual International Walk to School Day on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Students are encouraged to walk or ride bicycles to school. At Red Hill Elementary...
View ArticleRichard Stegemeier: Any jobs in the American Jobs Act?
Asked why he robbed banks, Willie Horton reportedly said, "Because that's where the money is." The American Jobs Act, which calls for collecting $40 billion from oil companies over 10 years, sounds a...
View ArticlePermanent haunted attraction opens in Brea
For Jeff Schiefelbein, just about every day is Halloween. He's been scaring locals for 16 years with his various haunted houses. The 36-year-old Brea resident has created events including an...
View ArticleOrange police blotter, Sept. 12-18
MONDAY, SEPT. 124:07 a.m. Possession of synthetic narcotics5:29 a.m. Theft, 700 block Grove Ave.9:35 a.m. Fraud, 2500 block El Camino Real9:15 a.m. Drunken driving, Santiago Canyon Road and...
View ArticleEditorial: Gov. Brown again goes for higher taxes
One of the California Legislature's more reasonable actions has been its so-called prison realignment plan, which shifts responsibility for low-level offenders from the notoriously bureaucratic and...
View ArticleChapman presents great musical with unpleasant name
Take a Tony Award-winning musical with a very unpleasant title. Add a storyline built around a town with such a serious water shortage that people have to pay to use public toilets. Mix it with a...
View ArticleMorning letters: Whatever happened to 'Pass the bill'?
-HUNTINGTON, Scott De Stefano: In August, we had Mr. Obama state repeatedly that he had a massive and important jobs bill that would put the country back on track. When asked by the press what the...
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