Category: Orange County News

13th Annual Getzlaf Golf Shootout Raises Nearly $500K for CureDuchenne

Ryan Getzlaf, Hawken Miller, Dani Terry, Troy Terry The 13th annual Getzlaf Golf Shootout, a marquee event supporting CureDuchenne’s mission to find a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, raised nearly $500,000, continuing the legacy of community and impact. This year, a new chapter began as Ryan and Paige Getzlaf officially Read More

Heist Comedy ‘Stealing Pulp Fiction’ Screens at Lido Theater Oct. 19

Scene from “Stealing Pulp Fiction.” What do you get when three Hollywood-Wannabe friends (Jon Rudnitsky, Karan Soni and Cazzie David) team up with their kooky therapist (Jason Alexander) to plot a heist to steal Quentin Tarantino’s personal 35mm print of “Pulp Fiction” from his movie theater. What else: “Stealing Pulp Read More

Set Your Sights on a True-Life Tale with ‘The Blind Sea’ at Newport Beach Film Festival

By age five, only a blurry and distorted three percent of Matt Formston’s vision remained. Despite this Australian athlete’s near total blindness from Macular Dystrophy (a rare affliction that totally eliminates any central vision, leaving but a thin edge of light at the fringes of the eye), he possessed a Read More

Spotlight on Detroit Jazz in ‘The Best of the Best’ at Newport Beach Film Festival

Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson at the Blue Bird Inn in Detroit in 1958 with Kirk Lightsey on piano, Herman Wright on bass and Roy Brooks on drums. Photo credit: Jim Gallert Collection By Simone Goldstone | Soundcheck Columnist The documentary “The Best of the Best: Jazz From Detroit” certainly lives Read More