Entertainment & Arts
The president of the Orange County Performing Arts Center on Thursday sharply criticized a Costa Mesa City Council proposal to attach broad content restrictions to city arts grants.
July 6, 1990
Movies
Movies: A film festival and statue will pay tribute to the Irish lad who became one of the great directors.
June 26, 1998
California
Longtime Ojai resident James Joseph Feeney, an insurance agent and Boy Scout volunteer, died on Monday.
Dec. 25, 1998
The Costa Mesa City Council on Monday released a $30,000 grant to South Coast Repertory that was withheld two weeks ago because of a complaint about a flyer the Tony Award-winning company distributed voicing its support of the National Endowment for the Arts.
July 4, 1990
When John and Ernie Feeney complain, the Costa Mesa City Council sits up and listens.
Sept. 26, 1990
Members of the Costa Mesa City Council, who at their last meeting ordered the city attorney to draft new policies on awarding arts grants, were warned in a letter Thursday of “vigorous opposition” from the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California if there is “any attempt to enact Helms-type language.”
July 13, 1990
The city attorney has drafted proposals for consideration Monday by the City Council that would prevent arts groups from using city money for “obscene matters” or “for the conduct of any religious or political activity.”
July 14, 1990
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Nov. 6, 1993
Sports
Can you be tough and still be afraid of the dark? Tony Dorsett can.
June 13, 1988
A couple who launched a controversy over city arts grants earlier this summer are now seeking the cancellation of a Costa Mesa Civic Playhouse production of “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You,” calling it a work of “anti-religious bigotry” that violates recently adopted grant restrictions.
Sept. 12, 1990