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Is Disneyland your happy place?

Ever since my first visit there as a little boy, Disneyland has been one of my most happy places. Indeed, ...
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Movie reviews of “TRON: Ares” & “Roofman”

"TRON: Ares" Walt Disney Picture's 'TRON" film franchise is iconic, so when the latest installment of the franchise was previewed ...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2025

As always, there was way too much there to make it possible to see and do everything at San Diego ...
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Tonies — fun, facts, songs, stories & an audio player for kids

Tonie figurines, when combined with the Toniebox speaker, are a fun, easy-to-use, educational, screen-free, high quality audio entertainment system of ...

Fantasmic returns to Disneyland — with OPENING NIGHT VIDEO

This week’s AutoMatters & More column was not originally intended to be a part two of a Disneyland double-header (with ...
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Star Wars: Season of the Force 2024 at the Disneyland Resort — WITH FIREWORKS VIDEO

(Re. the STAR WARS FIREWORKS VIDEO: The link to the Star Wars FIREWORKS VIDEO is three paragraphs from the end. ...
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AdventureLand Day & more at Disneyland

AdventureLand Day & more at Disneyland I’ve been a Disneyland annual passholder for many years. Since COVID-19, however, when I ...
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Reflecting on the decades-long evolution of “AutoMatters & More”

From time to time, people ask me what this column is about. I struggle answering that question because it is ...

COCSD Main Street America Car Show

Now celebrating its 26th year, the Corvette Owners Club of San Diego’s Main Street America People’s Choice Charity Car Show ...

In search of the happiest theme park in Southern California

It has been said that Disneyland is the happiest place on earth, so last Friday, January 27, I visited the ...