Courtesy of Pageant of the MastersLyle BrooksFolks with the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach are reeling over last week's death of one of their veteran sculptors, Lyle Brooks, who collapsed after a morning production meeting and died shortly thereafter of an apparent heart attack. He was only 49."I haven't begun to accept or comprehend the loss of our dear comrade Lyle," says Pageant director Diane Challis Davy in a statement emailed to the Weekly.
"We are all in shock. He was an extraordi
Lucio / Flickr / Creative Commons​When news broke of an Anaheim teacher molesting students earlier this week, we had no choice but to go with the headline "Oh Look, Another Teacher-Student Sex Crime." This sort of thing seems to happen a lot in Orange County, see. But we're running out of ways to communicate that via headline.This time, there's no student involved. And at least the guy had the decency to (allegedly) whip his pencil out in venues that weren't classrooms.Mark Gerard Petras, 42,
