Grease was the word last week as the“#1 musical of 2007, according to Time Magazine, started it’s run at the Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa. Direct from Broadway, Grease rocked opening night as Discover the OC staff was in attendance. From a front and center seat, we watched Vince Fontaine lead from the WAXX radio station in a nostalgic tour back in time to 1959. Poodle skirts, drive-ins, and hot rods electrified the stage as the cast did a fantastic job leveraging audience participation.
There’s something to be said about live …

Hospitals share patients more often than they realize, which increases the chance of spreading infections, according to a study released March 19 at the annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and Nurse.com. While one in nine shared patients is directly transferred from one hospital to another, most patients are discharged before they’re readmitted to another facility, the report says. After examining nearly 240,000 admissions at 31 acute care Orange County hospitals in 2005, researchers found that 22% of patients discharged from acute care facilities were readmitted …

We’re happy to say that the Galaxy Theater, in Santa Ana, California, the scene of so many great live shows, has officially reopened for business. According to Junkman at KNAC.com who attended a grand reopening party and was impressed with what he saw.
Owner Gary Folgner (who also owns the Coach House concert club in San Juan Capistrano Ca.) has reaquired the place after being closed for over a year. Extensive renovations have been made and more to come. A complete re-working of the upstairs balcony comes complete with new …

A 30-year-old California woman turned herself into Huntington Beach police on Tuesday afternoon on charges of commercial burglary, grand theft, and identity theft after using another woman’s name to establish a line of credit at the Pacific Center for Plastic Surgery according to Real Self.com.

Steve Lopez visited a former Orange County judge who is not just supporting a bill that would legalize marijuana so that the state could tax it, but he is willing to go on the record to say that the war on drugs is a lost, according to the article in the Los Angeles Times. Lopez writes “If Gray had his way, no one under 21 could buy drugs. But anyone older than that could legally buy marijuana — which, he says, causes nowhere near the amount of death and disease …