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Retail experts expect at least slightly better Christmas holiday sales this year than last, assuming things can't get much worse than 2008's shopping season, which arrived in the midst of a near meltdown of the nation's financial system.

If you don't know who Kellan Lutz is yet, you're not a screaming fan of last year's hit vampire movie "Twilight." Lutz is the 24-year-old South Dakota-born actor who plays Emmett Cullen, one of the vampire siblings of Edward Cullen , the hunky romantic interest of human teenager Bella Swan .

"This show should be at the Pantages Theater right now!" exclaimed legendary film, television and nightclub star Mitzi Gaynor Saturday night at Chapman University's American Celebration, where she received the university's 2009 Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award.

Jane Thatcher is the PNRWF publicity chair. Send your Anaheim Hills news to tcisneros@ocregister.com. Pat Nixon Republican Women Federated meeting slated for Thursday, Nov.

The Pusan Film Fest has partnered with Chapman University to bring Korean cinema to the States with its Pusan West, a film fest featuring new films, classics and documentaries.

Many of Chapman University's current students weren't born when the Berlin Wall fell, 20 years ago Monday.

Since it first started airing trailers in front of DISTRICT 9, there's been some debate over whether or not Universal Studios' FOURTH KIND is a true story or not.

There are those who would love to Californicate our commonwealth of Virginia. Creigh Deeds is one of them.

Ms. Older received her training and beginning professional experience performing opera, oratorio, and recital repertoire at Chapman University, The Guild Opera of Los Angeles, and The William Hall Chorale.

Yesterday John Gurda published a lengthy piece in the JS which used the most tiresome of old saws: "We get more and better SERVICES for all that money." I've been in Texas.

Chapman University , School of Acting , Southern California , Nome, Alaska The flat-lining, alien-abduction thriller "The Fourth Kind" offers a close encounter that buries an interesting idea under a barrage of gimmicky, carnivallike hokum.

"I am actress Milla Jovovich," the star says, directly to the audience as she introduces her new movie, "The Fourth Kind." And those are pretty much the last true words out of her mouth in this gimmicky, "Yes, this really happened" alien-abduction horror hooey.

On Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, 270 business and community leaders, Brandman and Chapman University professors and staff, political bloggers and members of the media attended a California gubernatorial debate between Republicans Tom Campbell and Steve Poizner at Brandman University : in Irvine based in Orange County.

William Voegeli, a contributing editor at The Claremont Review of Books, has an excellent essay in Manhattan Journal comparing the economic performance of California and Texas.

The Golden State isn't worth it -- latimes.com : "Joel Kotkin of NewGeography.com and Chapman University told the Los Angeles Times in March: 'Twenty years ago, you could go to Texas, where they had very low taxes, and you would see the difference between there and California.

Texas, increasingly, is the economic and intellectual leader of the U.S. During the last 18 months before the current recession took hold, while the country as a whole was still creating jobs, more than half of those jobs were created in a single state: Texas.

David Tarloff lives in a deeply troubled inner world. He was diagnosed as schizophrenic and hospitalized more than a dozen times before hacking a Manhattan psychologist to death with a meat cleaver.

The holiday shopping season is getting underway, but despite the not-so-gentle prodding of retailers and some economists, Americans are in no mood to overspend.

Mai Pham, a popular Thai and Vietnamese chef, will be at Chapman University 's Sandhu dining hall on Tuesday.

The Orange City Council passed an amendment Tuesday night to an existing law aimed at cracking down on so-called party houses in Old Towne Orange adjacent to Chapman University.