By Mary O’KEEFE and Charly SHELTON The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and Dept. of Public Health, along with the cities of LA, Pasadena and Long Beach, announced on Wednesday they were declaring a local emergency in connection with the novel coronavirus. There have been seven recorded cases of coronavirus in LA County, six […]
By Charly SHELTON Jules Verne published “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A World Tour Underwater” in serialized form from 1869 to 1870. The story was first set to film in 1907 by Georges Méliès, the father of motion pictures. But today upon hearing the title, people call to mind the 1954 Disney version starring […]
By Charly SHELTON Valentine’s Day is Friday, which is also part of a long weekend. Why not celebrate with a quick road trip? Nothing huge, just a quick shot up the coast or out into the desert for the weekend. CV Weekly has covered some great weekend trips in our Travel & Leisure section over […]
By Charly SHELTON From 1950 to 2000, the Peanuts comic strip ran serialized in newspapers across the world. It spawned more than a dozen movies, TV shows and, most memorably, holiday specials that are still played annually. The Peanuts characters are featured in Cedar Fair parks across the country with kiddie lands, character meet-and-greets, rides […]
By Charly SHELTON Every two seconds in America, somebody needs a blood transfusion. The blood donated at donation centers and mobile blood drives is sourced to hospitals where it can go to someone who is in need of fresh blood. It could go to a patient with iron deficiency who needs red blood cells to […]
By Charly SHELTON Lunar New Year was celebrated on Saturday, welcoming the Year of the Rat. For those who missed the actual New Year festivities, there are still plenty of opportunities to celebrate at the local theme parks. Each year Universal Studios Hollywood puts on a big festival for the Lunar New Year, and it […]
By Charly SHELTON January is health month, and it also coincides with the setting and rapid abandoning of New Year’s resolutions. At least half of all Americans who set New Year’s resolutions have health-related commitments, according to YouGov, an international research data and analytics group. And, according to Nielsen Analytics, only 64% of resolutions make […]
By Charly SHELTON The huge crowds that were expected to swarm Disneyland when Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opened were apparently delayed a bit because the usually mundane crowds have given way to a horde of Star Wars fans ready for the Resistance to Rise. Last Friday, the second and final attraction in the new Star […]
By Charly SHELTON Each year, medical scientists do their best to predict which strain of influenza virus will attack the population hardest then create a preemptive vaccine to combat it. Sometimes it’s the A strain that causes problems. The H1N1 virus can get out and cause an epidemic as it did with the 1918 Spanish […]
By Mary O’KEEFE California is no stranger to wildfires. Each year, thousands of acres burn across the state with crews battling to save homes and wildlife in arduous conditions. But California has never seen anything to the extent of the wildfires currently ravaging Australia. The total burned area in the Australian wildfires would stretch from […]