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News | | August 27, 2010
NEWPORT BEACH — Sitting on an oversized plush chair in baseball legend Chuck Finley's Newport Beach home, actress Tawny Kitaen seems to be in a much different place than she was eight years ago. A soccer goal is visible in the backyard, and her daughter's art covers the refrigerator in the family home. Her adopted dog, Woody, nuzzles Kitaen as she talks about a new off-camera passion: helping others. A volunteer at Kathy's House, a shelter for at-risk women in San Juan Capistrano, and a member of the board of directors at Testimony Life Resources, an alternative counseling center, Kitaen appears to be a far cry from her role as the eccentric star of "The Surreal Life," or the woman battling a dependency on prescription pills on "Celebrity Rehab.
NEWS
| June 24, 2011
Home prices throughout Southern California continue to fall. The median price paid for new and resold Southland houses and condos last month was $280,000, down 8.2% from a year earlier and the largest drop since September 2009. Don't even look at home prices toward the end of 2007, when the average Southern California home was going for $500,000. If a prospective buyer looked at your house today, what would they see? A weedy lawn, a maintenance and water headache, some big boring shrubs that look like they might swallow the car?
NEWS
| April 22, 2011
Serious gardeners love a challenge, especially when it comes to zones, frost, temperatures and all that boring technical stuff. Tell a serious plant lover that you can't grow one, and they'll buy two. Tell them it's too tropical or too temperate, and they'll test it. Tell them it's too difficult to grow, and they'll dream about it all night long. Gardeners love to push the envelope. Peonies growing and blooming in Southern California is precisely one of these local challenges.
NEWS
| May 4, 2012
A framed image of Jesus, presented as the Good Shepherd, hung from the wall of my childhood bedroom. He stood in a verdant pasture, staff in hand, lovingly providing for and sheltering the sheep of his flock gathered around him. That picture shaped my sense of who Jesus is, of who God is. For me, a long-time parish priest, that biblical image continues to be my tutor, providing form and direction to what, I believe, should be the role and...
ENTERTAINMENT
| May 17, 2012
"It's not over 'till you're underground It's not over before it's too late This city's burnin' It's not my burden It's not over before it's too late" — Green Day, "Letterbomb" * Punk band Green Day skyrocketed to fame in the 1990s, but is winning over an entirely new audience with its latest offering: a Broadway musical. But their "American Idiot" is a far cry from "Camelot. " It's a gritty, urban-inspired show that uses the same punk songs that made the band famous, and adds more than a smattering of simulated drug use, strong language and other adult situations.
NEWS
| May 11, 2012
A Newport Beach man's female relative accidentally stumbled upon child pornography on disks she thought were blank, court records allege. But instead of Alex Bassinne's disks being usable, she found two videos on them - one depicting a girl believed to be between 10 and 12 who was performing oral sex - according to a search warrant affidavit. Bassinne, 50, faces up to nine years and four months in state prison for the three felonies of which he stands accused, including possession of child pornography and lewd acts with a child, according to the Orange County district attorney's office.
NEWS
| November 29, 2011
NEWPORT BEACH — It was "Dancing with the Stars," but instead of football players and reality-TV personalities, teachers took to the stage. Newport Harbor High School's theater was packed Tuesday night for the first-ever "Dancing with the Teachers" to benefit the school's dance program. It was the first of two performances. "I'm so proud of these guys for getting on this stage and doing what they are doing," said Principal Michael Vossen, who also served as a judge. Teachers showed their stuff in eight choreographed routines and performed with members of the dance team to try and win the audience's vote for best dancer.
FEATURES
| August 15, 2009
At the beach, in a backyard hammock or late at night in bed, dog mysteries are a fun way to spend your summer reading hours. Several authors have made dogs an integral part of their writing, and if you enjoy a lighthearted mystery, these may be a perfect way to while away the summer. “Dog on It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery” is the first in a new series by Spencer Quinn . This debut is narrated by Chet, canine detective, and his partner, Bernie Little, of the Little Detective Agency.
SPORTS
May 11, 2012
Ralph Grajeda has resigned after four seasons as Vanguard University baseball coach. Grajeda, who said he would pursue another coaching job, was 98-95, 64-76 in the Golden State Athletic Conference. The Lions finished 2012 at 23-21. In 2010, Grajeda led the Lions to an at-large berth in the NAIA Opening-Round Tournament. The team was ranked in the top 25 for most of the regular season and finished 34-20. The Lions missed the postseason the last two seasons. "Vanguard University afforded me the opportunity to learn and grow as a head collegiate baseball coach in the toughest conference in the NAIA," Grajeda said in a statement.
NEWS
| May 17, 2012
A homeless encampment in Costa Mesa adorned with animal rights posters and graffiti could have been shelter to suspects connected to a recent rash of burglaries, police said Thursday. Costa Mesa police discovered the elaborate encampment beneath a San Diego (405) Freeway underpass where the Santa Ana River meets Moon Park, 3377 California St. Officers believe six to eight men have been living in the encampment for about two years, said Sgt. Vic Bakkila. The camp was discovered after an officer saw a suspicious-looking man go under the overpass, according to Bakkila.
NEWS
| May 17, 2012
The Costa Mesa Sanitary District's board is continuing its effort to remove Jim Fitzpatrick from the board because of a perceived conflict of interest with his recently relinquished Planning Commission seat. Fitzpatrick dropped the planning post after the Sanitary District directors said his involvement with both boards could one day prove incompatible. But his peers on the board do not believe the potential for conflict disappeared with his resignation. "Board member Fitzpatrick caused this by accepting the Planning Commission position after being advised by both the district counsel and the city's attorney that there was this legal doctrine that could cause him to lose his office," board President Bob Ooten wrote in an email.
NEWS
May 14, 2012
Slowly and delicately, a crane lifted the M1902U.S. Armyfield gun off its grassy resting place in Costa Mesa on Monday morning. The artillery piece had been in front of the Costa Mesa Police Department substation on West 18th Street for some 40 years, but now, for the next six to eight weeks, it will be getting restored by 16-year-old Brenden Fettis, an aspiring Eagle Scout and son of a Costa Mesa police officer. Brenden chose the restoration as his Eagle Scout project and will get help from other Boy Scouts.
ENTERTAINMENT
| May 5, 2012
Touring together for the first time in more than two decades, the reunited members of the Beach Boys will catch a new wave into Orange County. The Beach Boys' 50th Anniversary Tour kicked off last month to enthusiastic crowds. As part of their tour of more than 40 cities in the U.S., Europe and Japan, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks are to play at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine on June 3. The band recently announced that it soon will come out with a new studio-recorded album of hit-inspired originals, the Beach Boys' first album in decades featuring all of its surviving original members.
NEWS
| February 2, 2012
The numbers are mind-boggling. About 520 arrests in Newport Beach. At least 277 cases filed against him by prosecutors in Orange County. Plus an unknown amount in Hawaii, Los Angeles or any of the other places he landed after a stint in jail or rehab. But the number that's most important to those who knew Mark David Allen, or felt they knew him, is somewhere in the thousands. That's how many lives Allen touched through his documented story of a decades-long battle with alcoholism.
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