Cypress players celebrate after capturing the Empire League title Thursday. (Photos: Tom Connolly, For OC Sports Zone). With the Empire League title on the line in a winner-take-all scenario, the final regular season game between rivals Pacifica and Cypress High School baseball teams proved to be filled with excitement and Read More
Shanté Deloach, Katie Karel and Jared Van Heel star in “TARTUFFE,” directed by Richard Baird and now playing at the Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach. By Eric Marchese | Special to the NB Indy Great comedy is immortal, like “Tartuffe,” Molière’s masterpiece. Even more than 350 years since it was Read More
During their honeymoon, Peter (Chris McCarrell) realizes Rita (Hannah Corneau) has become someone he doesn’t recognize. “Prelude to a Kiss, The Musical” photo by Matt Gush, courtesy South Coast Repertory. By Eric Marchese | Special to the NB Indy In “Prelude to a Kiss, The Musical,” a random meeting that Read More
Scotty Beckett, Norma Shearer and Marilyn Knowlden in Marie Antoinette (1938) Some of the residents at Atria Senior Living in Newport Beach remember having stood in long theater lines to buy tickets to such 1930’s A-list films as “Little Women,” “David Copperfield,” “Les Miserable,” “Show Boat,” and “Marie Antoinette,” starring Read More
The estate of late rapper Tupac Shakur is threatening to sue Drake over a diss track using Shakur’s likeness with the help of artificial intelligence. Last Friday, the Canadian rapper released a diss track on Instagram titled “Taylor Made Freestyle,” which was directed at Kendrick Lamar. It uses an AI-generated Read More
Country music’s biggest party returns to the desert on Friday, and the internet is buzzing that Beyoncé may make a surprise appearance. The big clue is a performer listed on the Stagecoach website named DJ Backwoods Barbie. Nobody knows who she is, and her Instagram account features plenty of photos Read More
Delaney Rowe of Crean Lutheran returns a serve. (Photos courtesy Crean Lutheran Shutterbugs, John Luciano). Crean Lutheran High School’s girls beach volleyball team, top seeded in Division 2, has moved on to Saturday’s semifinals of the CIF tournament at Long Beach City College. To see the slide show, click on Read More
New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case. “We conclude that the trial court erroneously Read More
New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with “egregious” improper rulings, including a decision to let women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case. “We conclude that the trial court erroneously Read More
