New Adventures Found at DCA

By Charly SHELTON In 2001, Disney’s California Adventure park opened across the way from Disneyland. It had maybe three good rides – Soarin’ Over California, Grizzly River Run and California Screamin’. The rest either broke constantly or were bad rides or just didn’t make any sense as to why it was in a Disney park, […]

NOTES & NODS

‘Courageous’ Video Presentations   Bethel Church is offering a showing of the film “Courageous” on Saturday morning, June 16 preceded by a free breakfast. The breakfast starts at 7:30 a.m.; the video starts at 8:15 a.m. followed by the opportunity for discussion at about 10:15 a.m. In this recently released film, despite showing bravery on […]

Exploring E3 2012

By Charly SHELTON For the first time in the history of CV Weekly, we have commandeered the Leisure section for use solely on video games. E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, was held at the L.A. Convention Center last week and with all the games there, we decided to devote an entire section to it. Below […]

Devil in the Details – a Review of Diablo III

»GAME REVIEW By Mike WORKMAN Blizzard Entertainment is known for taking its sweet time when working on a game. So it’s no surprise that it has been more than a decade since the last Diablo title was released back in 2001 with the expansion of “Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.” Many gamers shed tears of […]

Guilty Pleasure Found in ‘The Dictator’

By Charly SHELTON “Borat” was funny. It was uncouth, shocking, offensive and funny. Then came “Brüno,” a movie in the same style and vein of Sasha Baron Cohen’s first film. But “Brüno” went further. He was more comfortable with awkwardness, with pushing people’s buttons, and with on screen nudity. Now we have “The Dictator.” A […]

La Crescenta Residents (and Dog) Featured in ‘Annie’

By Agnes CONSTANTE When Copper, an 11-year-old golden retriever chow mix, takes the stage at the Glendale Center Theatre, all eyes are on him. Copper stars as Sandy in the Glendale Centre Theatre’s production of “Annie,” which runs until June 30. Rebecca Thomas, a junior at Crescenta Valley High School, and her father Robert star […]

A Sneak Peek at E3 2012

By Michael WORKMAN This spring has brought many highly sought after games – and it’s is just getting started. Though summer is considered to be a quiet time in the gaming industry with few major titles being released, it still has a colossal event every year in the summer: the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3. […]