2013 Rotator Archive Stories

Well, it's Monday and the first full work week of 2013, welcome back to reality! Those of you who were able to fend off work for just a little longer this morning scored some fun surf in Huntington Beach. This morning's swell came in looking pretty fun this morning on the south side of the Huntington Beach Pier in the 3' to 4' foot range

Day at the Pool, a documentary short that covers the true origins of modern skateboarding, was released on DVD and iTunes on January 25. The short challenges the film

Monday after the storm made for sunny skies and near-perfect surf in the early morning hours. At first light myself, Brett Simpson, Teddy Navarro and videographer David Lee Scales looked over the surf and like most people thought, "over it, too cold and too small." As Simpo and Scales took off to get some work done - Brett has a lot of work in O

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The second stop of the Arnette Cash Pot Surf Series went down Sunday, March 3rd at Blackies in Newport Beach. The surfers made the most of the 1-2 foot conditions and the competition in the water was fierce with high scores and big turns from the groms and pros. The 16 and Under division final was the heat of the day with Griffin Foy j

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Orange County's Courtney Conlogue claimed her second Women's World Tour victory Friday, winning a big surf contest in New Zealand over Hawaii's Coco Ho. The waves were two-to-three-feet at Taranki's Fitzroy Beach for the TSB Bank NZ Surf Festival, the fourth stop of seven on the women's ASP World Tour. "I put in a lot of hard wor

Adele sweeping her way to a six-win coronation at last year's Grammy Awards was the easiest thing for prognosticators to predict since Norah Jones had everyone's vote virtually a decade earlier. But this time, despite murmurs that it might be a big night for mellow yet startling R&B newcomer Frank Ocean (don't count on it), the prize

Mick Jagger with the band at London's O2 Arena last November. Photo: Ian Gavan, Getty Images At last,

The Mumfords salute Springsteen at the MusiCares Person of the Year gala. Photo: Getty Images As

How much to see the Kid? Twice the number of fingers he has in the air. Photo: Getty Images I've pointed this

Although a rarity, it’s always admirable when someone is able to convert a lifelong passion into a successful business. Take a look inside Paul Norris and Jonathan Brown’s Extreme Athletics training facility in Costa Mesa and you’ll see just that – two guys with a passion for surfing aiming to provide fellow surfers and a

What is the statute of limitations on "Planet of the Apes?" It's been 45 years since Charlton Heston rode his horse down the beach on that strange planet and discovered that he actually was ... no, wait, I can't do it. I can't ruin it for someone who hasn't seen the movie. If you believe that movies are forever, and that new gene

Apparently, there is an unwritten law in Hollywood that every new generation must have its own version of “The Great Gatsby.” This generation gets its own “Gatsby” this weekend when Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann (“Moulin Rouge!”) unveils his lavish 3D productio

Her fifth album, Girl on Fire, dropped just before Thanksgiving, so it was only a matter of weeks before Alicia Keys would reveal North American dates to promote it. As it is, hers is one of the first major outings to be announced in 2013 — at least that's headed our way. Keys, who turns 32 this month, is launching her Set t

After a half-dozen years away from the pop life, Justin Timberlake's return to record-making has already prompted plenty of groan-inducing "SexyBack" puns. So let's stick to what we know: Having spent the weekend teasing that he's ready to sing and dance again, JT surprised fans late last night by dropping a spiffy new track, "Suit &

Melanoid, Jamais Vu EP (self-released, available on Bandcamp, iTunes and Amazon) – John Hanson, the half of this estimable local act that

Jeff Brion and Rosanne Ramirez have stepped into some unorthodox waters, but they're confident they can keep their head above it. The two are holistic health practitioners in Laguna Beach, where their company, Feeling Functional, opened the Float Lounge in June. Floating is a therapy in which clients seal themselves from the outside worl

How many surfers in San Clemente would like to have 180 surfboards in their garage? Resident Maurice Agnello has that many in a warehouse where he sells used boards at what often is one-fourth the price of what they would cost new. Agnello, 41, started his business, UsedSurf, in 2005 using his long experience as a surfer and surfboard ai

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"Forty forever … last year, next year, this year …" That was just about all anyone could audibly understand from Chan Marshall, the musician known as Cat Power, among her intermittent mumblings during Tuesday night's performance at Santa Ana's Observatory. Marshall was commentating on the fact that a day earlier she

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The internationally-acclaimed Belarus Free Theatre’s Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker, came to Segerstrom Center for the Arts' Founders Hall January 24-26. The play is set in Belarus, Europe’s last dictatorship and is performed in Russian with English subtitles projected on a screen behind the performers. Exploring