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For a guide to restaurants and other entertainment choices in our towns, see our guide here.

Our choices for fine dining and fun in the Garden Grove area. This weekend: The top film opening this week is “Public Enemies” starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale.

Journal Editor Jim Tortolano share his thoughts as the GGJ’s veteran and vetted editor, publisher and principal iconoclast ....or so he’d like to think.  THE BLOG:  The future of the Festival. Go HERE.

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Debate goes on over sale of fireworksJournal_Daily/Entries/2009/7/2_Debate_continues_over_%E2%80%98safe_and_sane%E2%80%99.html

Keep up with the activities going on. To view our Community Calendar, go HERE.  Coming up:  Fourth of July activities in the area for Garden Grove and Stanton.


Ace reporter Brittany Hanson keeps an eye on the world of the fine and performing arts. Traipsing through the rain forest. Go HERE.

Probably not, as long as American kids want to be like Kobe Bryant and Tony Hawk. We won’t really be big in soccer until the small ones embrace it for themselves, writes Jim

Tortolano

In the Journal

GG pot case a precedent?Welcome_GGJ_files/medical_marijuana%207-2.doc

Read the Declaration! Hear patriotic music! Get your hot dogs and hamburgers and chili! Things to do in GG on Independence Day.

Our Blogs

Community CalendarCommunity_Calendar.html
Dining & EntertainmentDining_Guide.html
GG pot case a precedent?Journal_Daily/Entries/2009/7/2_Is_GG_pot_case_a_precedent.html
Is soccer now a kick for US?Journal_Daily/Entries/2009/7/2_A_new_golden_age_for_U.S._soccer_No..html
Life, liberty and July 4 funJournal_Daily/Entries/2009/7/2_Words,_music_and_more_on_the_4th.html
Fireworks debate goes onJournal_Daily/Entries/2009/7/2_Debate_continues_over_%E2%80%98safe_and_sane%E2%80%99.html
Depp arresting in “Enemies”Journal_Daily/Entries/2009/7/2_AP_Movie_Review__%E2%80%9CPublic_Enemies%E2%80%9D.html
Journal DailyJournal_Daily/Journal_Daily.html
Schuller’s daughter to healJournal_Daily/Entries/2009/7/2_Sheila_Schuller_Coleman%E2%80%99s_plan_to_heal.html
Don: Dodger or Angel fan?Journal_Daily/Entries/2009/7/2_Don_Alexander__Dodger_or_Angels_fan.html
Summer is easy for SherryJournal_Daily/Entries/2009/7/2_Sherry_Travis__Summer_is_easy_time.html
Dear Marilyn: A choiceJournal_Daily/Entries/2009/6/24_Dear_Marilyn__Trading_Austin_for_S._Barbara.html
Dalton honors businessesJournal_Daily/Entries/2009/6/24_Curbs_on_watering_approved_for_GG.html

Garden Grove Journal is proud to be a sponsor of the 2009 Strawberry Festival, May 22-25, and media partner for Shakespeare Orange County. 2009 season, June 11-Aug. 27

The legal battle over whether a man had the right to possess a quantity of medicinal marijuana has cost Garden Grove over  $200,000 in legal fees, and may have aided the cause of the herb for medical purposes.

Oh, say can you see ... something to do on July 4thJournal_Daily/Entries/2009/7/2_Words,_music_and_more_on_the_4th.html
Is soccer now a real kick for the USA?Journal_Daily/Entries/2009/7/2_A_new_golden_age_for_U.S._soccer_No..html

Amidst Garden Grove’s annual crackdown on illegal fireworks, seniors and non-profits are worlds apart on the benefits of the sale and use of “safe and sane” pyrotechnics in the Big Strawberry.

Manny’s back as LA wins

FRIDAY: Manny Ramirez is back after his 50-game suspension for violation of the drug-use policy. He went 0-for-3 with a walk,  but the Dodgers defeated the San Diego Padres 6-3, scoring five runs in the first. Rafael Furcal drove in four runs to lead the Dodgers.The win improved the Dodgers’ record to 51-29, seven and a half games ahead of the San Francisco Giants in the National League West.

NEXT UP:  The Dodgers at San Diego through Sunday.