By Charly SHELTON Big things have been happening at Disney California Adventure. We visited Buena Vista Street, the 1920s-era land recently added to DCA. Then we saw Cars Land located in the same park, the biggest land expansion since the opening of Disneyland. And this week, to wrap it up, we will take a look […]
By Charly SHELTON Last week we looked at the reopening of Disney California Adventure park and the fantastic new opening statement of a land – Buena Vista Street, harking back to the ’20s and ’30s in Los Angeles when a young cartoonist named Walt Disney stepped off the train with a cardboard suitcase and a […]
By Charly SHELTON For the sixth year in a row, the Crescenta Valley Fireworks Association will hold its annual 4th of July event. The fireworks show, which will top out at around 15 minutes, is provided as the finale to the Independence Day festival put on the field at La Crescenta Elementary. “We are in […]
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, […]
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 […]
By Charly SHELTON There are few rides that are ever made that honestly shock you. There are rides that pleasantly surprise, rides that live up to expectations, and far too often, rides that disappoint. But every once in a while, a ride will shock you. Something that is either so realistic or so enthralling that […]
By Charly SHELTON Last summer, DC relaunched all of their comic book series back to issue one. There were 52 new titles that were launched and 46 of those comics were really well received. The other six didn’t do so well. In an effort to always give the readers what they want, those six titles […]
By Charly SHELTON Seventeen and a half hours. On Thursday, I spent 17-and-a-half hours sitting in the same chair, in the same movie theater, all to watch movies I have seen countless times before. And I paid for that. I bought a rather expensive ticket to sit there and see all the comic book movies […]
By Charly SHELTON In 1987, a new store opened at the Glendale Galleria. One of the best, most successful malls in the state, the Galleria has seen many new retail concepts come and go, as this is the mall where new ideas are tried out. Some fail miserably; others have a few locations open up […]
By Charly SHELTON The Civil War began 151 years ago. In 1861, the battle at Fort Sumpter started, leading to a bloody war where brother turned against brother and the country was torn apart, not only by the actual fighting but by the lines of loyalty that were formed and broken. To commemorate this event […]