Ocean View looks poised to win its first game in Little League World Series
The Huntington Beach team, representing California, is up 9-0 over Rhode Island in the top of the 6th Inning. The game, which was rain-delayed, is live on ESPN.
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The Huntington Beach team, representing California, is up 9-0 over Rhode Island in the top of the 6th Inning. The game, which was rain-delayed, is live on ESPN.
At my kid’s recent preschool graduation, she climbed on a box, accepted a ribbon-wrapped diploma and fielded a hard question from her pre-K teacher:
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
“Pet store owner,” she said.
After the ceremony, I told her that it was OK with me if she owned a pet store, as long as it’s Petco. She’s 5 and, as usual, had no idea what I was talking about.
…Continue reading Letters From The Editor: The kid has big dreams involving animals
The Balboa Club & Resort, a fixture along the Newport Harbor for more than 60 years, has been sold, a spokesman said Friday.
The deal also includes the Newport Beach Country Club near Fashion Island.
International Bay Clubs Inc., which owns the BBC and the Newport Beach Country Club, was sold to Delaware-based Seven-One Capital-Business Inc. Seven-One is owned by a Chinese businessman, Winston Chung. … Continue Reading
Orange County Fair CEO Steve Beazley says that Friday’s opening day set a record.
“Friday’s total attendance of more than 70,000 was the biggest opening day in fair history,” he said in a column that will appear in Tuesday’s Daily Pilot.
Free admission for the first hour helped increase attendance.
Saturday attendance was a few thousand shy of 2010 totals.
Pulling no punches, GQ magazine attacked the fashion sense — and overall value system — of Newport Beach in its recent 40 worst-dressed cities in America feature.
The piece seems to attack Newport culture, such as plastic surgery and Botox, more so than couture choices.
One of the more biting lines: “Money can buy a lot of things—a hulking white Escalade, a trophy wife — but it … can’t buy class.”
The magazine also goes after Fashion Island and the association with “The O.C.,” which was set in a fictional Newport Beach but filmed in Los Angeles County.
Anyway, here’s GQ’s entry on Newport:
You pretty much know what to expect from a town whose exuberant claim to fame is being the location of “The O.C.” For Newport Beach residents, this dubious honor validated their overblown sense of significance, mistaking as they did the fandom of Mischa Barton with their international relevance.
This ritzy coastal town is dedicated to money, showing off that money, year-round tans and a fundamental disconnect from reality. Newport’s balls-out ostentation veers dangerously into gaudiness—all flashy excess and no style. (Look no further than “Fashion Island,” a bayside destination promising an exotic catwalk of model muses, perhaps, and delivering: a mall.)
The diamonds are huge, the Botox abounds (not just on the ladies), and the women are platinum-blonde-and-boob-job clones. Money can buy a lot of things—a hulking white Escalade, a trophy wife—but it … can’t buy class.—Maxandra Short
By John Canalis
Hand it to Visit Newport Beach.
The city’s travel bureau found opportunity in misery. The silver in the silver lining.
Good business ideas solve problems. Got dirty clothes? Buy Tide. Can’t find stuff online? Go to Google.
Don’t want to sit in your car or house during Carmageddon? Weekend in Newport Beach.
Problem solved.
No one knows whether there really is a problem — or at least a major one. With Angelenos afraid to fire up their Priuses from Friday night to Monday morning, Carmageddon could easily become another Y2K.
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Interim Police Chief Steve Staveley addresses the City Council at a June 14 study session on Costa Mesa's proposed budget (Photo by Kevin Chang / Daily Pilot)
COSTA MESA — Interim Police Chief Steve Stavely said he will resign from the Police Department at noon Tuesday.
Staveley said he is unhappy with what he calls “a foolhardy” proposal by the City Council to reduce police staffing levels. Council members on Tuesday will consider thinning the ranks to help grapple with budget problems.
“There’s a point in time where I reached an ethical dilemma — stay and take their money and be quiet about the foolish council decision-making — or reject their money and call them on it,” he said.
The judge presiding over the so-called “Irvine 11″ case has just issued a gag order barring the prosecution and students accused of disrupting a meeting at UC Irvine from speaking about the case.
The members of the Muslim Student Union, who attend or attended UC Irvine and UC Riverside, are accused of planning to interrupt a speech by an Israeli ambassador to the United States.
(Full story to come)
A revenue-sharing plan for the state-owned Orange County Fairgrounds cleared a legislative hurdle Tuesday, according to a news release from Assemblyman Jose Solorio.
The Anaheim Democrat said his legislation would keep the fairgrounds from being sold to a private real estate concern. The Assembly Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection passed Assembly Bill 35 with a 9-0 vote.
“We are willing to share in Orange County,” Solorio said, according to his news release. “A revenue sharing plan is a viable option. After closely studying the matter, the OC Fair Board endorsed a revenue sharing proposal as an alternative to the proposed sale of the property.”
An Estancia High School teacher accused Costa Mesa Councilman Steve Mensinger of “chest-bumping” him during a weekend community fun run, according to a police report and interviews.
“That’s false, and that’s contrary to witnesses I have who were at the event,” Mensinger said in a phone interview Sunday afternoon.
Joel Ruben Flores, who teaches English, filed a police report that claims he saw Mensinger at Estancia High School’s Jim Scott Stadium at 8:30 a.m. Saturday between races at the fun run to help local schools and made comments disagreeing with the councilman’s decision to vote in favor of laying off more than 200 city employees.
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