This is Joel Beers on the Fox Fullerton theater crusader, who died after lapsing into a coma ...
The Fox Fullerton theater, which showed its last film in 1987, is still years—and several million dollars—away from reopening. But its unrestored marquee lit up bright again Sunday night in memory of Chuck Estes, the man most responsible for saving the 1925 movie palace from destruction. Estes, the co-founder of the Fullerton Historic Theater Foundation, died Sunday after a weeklong coma
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The "Clean-Cut Bandit": Coming to a bank near you?MONDAY, JUNE 1Shroomin' in Lagoonan: Laguna Beach Police arrested three people at a La Mirada Street property for alleged possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms, heroin, Xanax, Levitra, Alprazolam and "numerous other unknown pills." Steven Christopher Aiello, 27, of Mission Viejo; Joseph Donovan Black, 26, of Laguna Beach; and Cable Jonathan Jansen, 19, of Aliso Viejo, were arrested on suspicion of trespassing and various drug offenses. Upon his
