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Share Northwestern University has a long tradition of Pulitzer, Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony Award winning alumni lighting up stage and screen. One likely reason is the Waa Mu Show, Northwestern’s oldest theatrical tradition. This year Waa Mu presents its 90th production, “The Secret of Camp Elliott,” which the writing team has conceived as a supernatural mystery musical that follows three friends at summer camp in 1977. Presented by the Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts at Northwestern...

By PAM KRAGEN | The San Diego Union-Tribune | Published: May 17, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — This fall, the last American troops will leave Afghanistan, ending a 20-year war that involved tens of thousands of troops who trained and deployed from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Since the 200-square-mile military base was established along the northern border of Oceanside, Calif., in 1942, the city has had a strong and symbiotic relationship with the Marine Corps. But the Corps economic i...

A storied tradition: The Waa-Mu Show at 90 Milestone marked with a new movie-musical and an addition to the ‘Wall of Fame’ The George Gershwin musical “Show Girl” debuted on Broadway in 1929. It was also the year the iconic song “Singin’ in the Rain” was first performed. That same year, the Women’s Athletic Association (W.A.A.) and the Men’s Union (MU) at Northwestern University joined forces to create one of the nation’s first coed college musicals. “Good Morning Glory”...

By GUSTAVO ARELLANO | Los Angeles Times | Published: April 19, 2021 LOS ANGELES (Tribune News Service) – The word came in the morning, as Grace Cruz and her children gathered at the family home in Boyle Heights on Christmas Eve, 1943. Her oldest son, Jacob, was dead. A telegram from the United States Marines said the 18-year-old private was killed in action but divulged little else. The ongoing Pacific campaign meant Jacob would be buried in a temporary grave in the Tarawa atoll, where he ...

Lost for Decades, a Marine World War II Hero Finally Comes Home A plaque on a memorial site hangs to commemorate the Battle of Tarawa on Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, Kiribati, June 19, 2017. (MCIPAC Combat Camera Lance Cpl. Juan C. Bustos/U.S. Marine Corps) 19 Apr 2021 The Los Angeles Times | By Gustavo Arellano LOS ANGELES -- The word came in the morning, as Grace Cruz and her children gathered at the family home in Boyle He...

Print The word came in the morning, as Grace Cruz and her children gathered at the family home in Boyle Heights on Christmas Eve, 1943. Her oldest son, Jacob, was dead. A telegram from the United States Marines said the 18-year-old private was killed in action but divulged little else. The ongoing Pacific campaign meant Jacob would be buried in a temporary grave in the Tarawa atoll, where he and more than 1,000 other Marines and sailors died fighting the Imperial Japanese Army. Weeks turned int...

Print In February 1941 the 2nd Marine Division was activated at a parade and review at at Camp Elliott, the Marine Corps Base in San Diego. During World War II some 60,000 Marines with the 2nd Division saw action in the Pacific. From The San Diego Union, Sunday, February 2, 1941: Marines Display War Equipment First Complete Division Formed Masses of marching, helmeted men; trucks, anti-aircraft guns, howitzers, rumbling tanks, light machine-guns, slim French 75s, marines with fixed bayonets on...

On Sept. 25, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Camp Pendleton as part of a 12,000-mile military inspection trip and dedicated the new base, which was to be the Marine Corps’ largest West Coast training facility. Retired 1st Sgt. John Farritor, 98, remembers that day and the day a few weeks earlier when he first marched onto the base north of Oceanside. Farritor, of Vista, is among area Marines who are celebrating the base’s 75th anniversary with tours and get-togethers, but he i...

Eat Tierrasanta has its share of sweets, eats, and coffee. After polling neighborhood residents, chef Javier Ugarte transformed his 25-year-old Italian eatery, Andiamo, into the modern gastropub Fifty9Fifty for upscale American fare, 20 rotating taps, and a heated patio. Fifty9Fifty Justin Halbert Just up the road is Tasty Donuts, where the cronut trend is alive and well. The friendly café has been a neighborhood favorite since 1993. Insider tip: The iced co...