With cymbals crashing, dragons dancing and fireworks exploding, the Chinese Lunar New Year, this year will be welcomed on Feb. 5. Celebrated with colorful and dramatic pageantry throughout the world
Want to channel your Winter Olympian? Have you always wanted to ride a dogsled? Eager to perfect your double axel or triple salchow like skaters Kristi Yamaguchi or Evan Lysacek?
It’s the season for ghouls and goblins, witches and black cats and hauntings and horrors. For Kathy Keysor Kellar, of Canyon Country, Halloween is an apt time to remember one
Want to shoot zombies from a train? View sitting on a rooftop? How about watching a classic silent horror film in the comfort of the Walt Disney Concert Hall? We
Most children love Halloween. It’s a time to hang out with friends in fun costumes, get free candy and stay up late. Scott Sivley, of Saugus, was no exception. Born
The moment the lights dimmed in the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood I was transported to my wayward youth. I knew, somewhere in the deep recesses of memory that Carole King
It’s time to celebrate brews and Braunschweiger, ales and Alpine games, as well as lederhosen and dirndls and all things German. Now remembered mostly as an annual Bavarian harvest festival
Americans spend an estimated $10 billion annually on Halloween, making it the country’s second largest commercial holiday. The Halloween tradition can be traced back 2,000 years to the Celts and
Halloween in Southern California is a great time to enjoy a variety of new experiences at some of your favorite “haunts.” From studio tours to tourist attractions, Halloween brings out
It’s the season of things that go “bump in the night” and this year’s offerings of Halloween “thrills and chills” far exceeds anything seen in the dead of the Southern
Paul Marks, now an Acton resident after living in Saugus since 1994, is the author of the Shamus Award-winning novel “White Heat” and its sequel, “Broken Windows.”
I remember when I was 16, my grandparents paid for our family to visit Washington D.C. We spent a week visiting the nation’s capital and Williamsburg, Va. We spent months
The kids are back in school and most likely will attend a field trip or two this year to see the La Brea Tar Pits or the California Science Center.
Reena Newhall was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. during WWII. While her father served in the military, Newhall and her mother lived with her grandparents, immigrants who arrived in the United
In the Pacific Northwest, blackberries grow wild alongside the road. You can stop and pick blackberries until your heart’s content. Sadly, many people in the Northwest consider blackberry bushes “weeds”
Ed. note: This story is the second in a two-part series looking at ways that homeowners can save big money on their plumbing appliances with timely upkeep. Part I looked
I remember when I was 16, my grandparents paid for our family to visit Washington D.C. We spent a week visiting the nation’s capital and Williamsburg, Va. We spent months
From Santa Clarita to Goleta, from Tehachapi to San Diego, there’s a festival waiting for you. Apples, lemons, avocados, art and music are all waiting for their day in the
As a young girl, Dianne White Crawford discovered her love of movies in the Wilshire Movie Theater in Fullerton. As her mother worked in the nearby beauty salon, Crawford and
Ed. note: This story is the first in a two-part series looking at ways that homeowners can save big money on their plumbing appliances around the home with a little