"…wandering stars, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever." Jude (1:13)
Jude, brother of James, obviously wasn't thinking about the Newport Beach Walk of Fame in his Epistle, but it's still a fairly apt description Newport Beach's attempt at combining celebrity and paving materials.
Like The General Epistle of Jude, which is tucked away in a little trafficked part of the New Testament, the Newport Beach Walk of Fame has found a home far from both its original intended
6TH ANNUAL “HAUNTED FULLERTON WALKING TOURS,” 6pm
Get in the spirit of Halloween by taking some time to tour the spookier parts of Fullerton. Make sure to call and reserve a spot on the tour as reservations are required. The tours run every Wednesday and Thursday until November 9.
Fullerton Museum Center, 301 N. Pomona Ave., Fullerton, (714) 738-6545.
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HEBREW SCHOOL DROPOUTS
If Jewish guilt has ever plagued you, Hebr
It's pretty well-known that I'll go almost anywhere I'm invited if there's free food and booze, but some invites make more sense than others. Movie premieres, I understand. Art gallery openings, sure. But a meeting held by a package tour company to pitch their getaways to local travel agents? I mean, I don't make near enough money to afford African safaris or whatnot, especially since some of them cost as much as my rent for the entire year. And I'm fairly sure that most of you who pick our free
According to Travel Mole, "the online community for the travel and tourism industry," visiting Israel is at an all-time high amid the bombs raining down courtesy of the Hamas theme park:
Despite the Strife, Tourism in Israel is at an all Time High
Perhaps it's the 60th anniversary as more visitors came to Israel in 2008 than in any year since the independent State of Israel was founded in 1948. "This is the first time ever more than 3 million tourists came to
Part I at 4 p.m.: Downtown Los Angeles walking tour of lynch spots! Interview with the man behind this ultimate tourist trap, Scripps College Professor Ken Gonzales-Day.Part II at 4:20 p.m.: Southern California ethnic news aggregator LA Beez.Part II at 4:40 p.m.: Your calls regarding your favorite Southern California news sources--blogs, radio shows, newspapers, random guys walking down the street. Full list on this blog tomorrow!
ZereshkEl Paso: Better than Cancun?The pages of Navel Gazing have long narrated the increasingly crumbly and futile efforts by OC's loose network of immigrant haters to work Americans up into a fit of rage over illegal immigration. But this latest effort by the usual suspects (Barbara Coe, CCIR, the Minutemen) marks a kind of milestone for just how desperate they've grown. They've now set out to attack spring breakers and middle-aged, fanny-packed, cruise-ship bound tourists with -- fliers? App
