Dwight Manley: The Brea King? Illustration by Paul Nagel. Photo by Federico Medina. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, once a young apprentice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and who later ran “Rainbow ...

The logo for Newport Beach’s Helmsman Ale House is a sea captain with a beard of tentacles gripping a ship’s wheel. I don’t know what his official name is, but I can’t think of a better mascot for ...

Garden-tenders Viet Tran, Jon Reiser and Angel Zaragoza. Photo by Federico Medina As Garden Grove Mayor Steve Jones walks the Garden Amp grounds, it’s obvious he’s just as excited as all of the ...

A former cast member at Medieval Times’ internationally-acclaimed dinner shows is accusing management of firing her for protesting gender discrimination, harassment and the torture of horses used ...

There’s an old newsroom aphorism from which all Americans living in this Bronze Age of the Internet might profit: “If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out.” Translation: if you’re a ...

Fletcher and Wyatt Shears of the Garden in Wyatt’s Long Beach apartment. Photo by John Gilhooley After weeks of rain, slices of sunlight filter through the shades of Wyatt Shears’ Long Beach apartment ...

As an 11-year-old kid in the summer of 1981, life was, by all discernible metrics, pretty cool. Even in the nascent months of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, very little seemed of consequence—or even ...

Contrary to popular belief, radio isn’t dead! The truth is, video didn’t kill the radio star; it was free entertainment on the internet that almost did. It’s hard to fathom, but before the internet ...

Disneyland custodian Al Ramos came back from vacation in September 1984 with no work to return to, save for walking the picket line outside his job. The company wanted a two-year wage freeze, no ...

The small, circular island at the center of the iconic traffic circle at the heart of Old Towne Orange is one of the town’s most prominent celebrities (step aside, Amber Lynn). The Plaza or the Circle ...

When Anthony Armer—better known as the formerly anonymous thrill-seeker 8booth—flew through the cold night air after leaping off the top of Laguna Beach’s Pacific Edge Hotel late last December, he had ...

As he walked briskly along a downtown Santa Ana sidewalk for our first meeting on a toasty, cloudless February 2014 afternoon, criminal defense attorney Scott Sanders’ brain generated waves of ...