Good Cocktail Hunting at Dux in Tux
March 3, 2017
Honoring those that help, Ducks Captain Ryan Getzlaf presents a custom jersey to Chef Bruno – Photo, Nagel
You know you’re a foodie when walking into the gala Dux in Tux event at the Anaheim Hilton, you’re more excited to see noted chefs than professional hockey players. I guess it’s because I’m a casual Ducks fan these days and I’ve had many run-ins and ice time with Ducks players at The Rinks in Anaheim where I played beer league hockey in years past.
One thing is certain with hockey players: They’re a classy bunch that tends to spend more time in media showing good deeds than often-seen shenanigans of other professional sports. Tonight’s fundraiser is no different. The Ducks Foundation pours its heart and soul into the community thanks to fundraisers like this that have raised upwards of $330,000 in years past.
How a Disney disaster in Europe robbed California of Westcot, a Disneyland version of Epcot
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Epcot Center in 1984.Michel BARET/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
This month marks the 20th anniversary of Disney California Adventure, the counterpart to Disneyland park that opened on Feb. 8, 2001. Though it has a larger capacity than Disneyland an estimated 80,000 versus 50,000 people it’s generally considered the inferior park, with a hazy, ever-evolving identity that doesn’t evoke the same feelings as its nostalgia-inducing counterpart.
But California Adventure almost didn’t exist at all. In fact, it was originally supposed to be an Epcot Center.
Westcot, the West Coast counterpart to Epcot in Walt Disney World resort in Orlando, was going to follow a similar format. There would be a portion of the park dedicated to outer space and the world of tomorrow, called VenturePort rather than Epcot’s FutureWorld, that would be totally indoors. A World Showcase w
An Evening with Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The Skirball presents an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and authors Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, whose book
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, inspired the Skirball s current online exhibition. The conversation and Q&A will be moderated by Eric Liu, co-founder and CEO of Citizen University. Signed books aare available for purchase at bronxriverbooks.com.
Artist Arshile Gorky, pictured here in childhood with his mother, inspired the collaborative film, They Will Take My Island. (Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Tuesday, Jan. 26; 4 p.m. PST
They Will Take My Island