Last month Lane and I were treated to a backstage tour of the Orange County Performing Arts Center facilities by the gracious and informative Director of Public Relations, Tim Dunn, and the friendly and lovely publicist, Heather Cho. Do not think of us as being terribly special; docent-led tours of the facilities happen regularly and [...]

Xeri- what???
Were it not for the storms brought by El Nino this winter, Southern California would be in its fourth consecutive year of serious drought.  Despite the rainfall we received in January and February, the California Department of Water Resources still lists Southern California’s drought status as “Severe.”  Statewide reservoir storage on February 25, 2010 [...]

Gentlemen, as I write this it is 13 days to Valentine’s Day. As usual, some of you are going to “mail it in” and get your special someone a 99¢ card from the liquor store and call it good. Others are going to buy a dozen half-dead roses from some old lady on the street [...]