“It changes constantly with the seasons...

“It changes constantly with the seasons and Dennis’ moods.”

-- Darren Grant, an artist who carries out the wishes of manager

Dennis Rodman, the West Newport resident and former NBA star, at Josh

Slocum’s restaurant in Newport

“Our kids are missing out on some really effective ways of

learning.”

-- Tom Egan, Newport-Mesa school board trustee, on networking

various schools so that students can interact with one another

“Zines are used to work out ideas, new ideas. It’s a simple way of

doing that. It’s liberating, cheap and easy.”

-- Irene Hofmann, curator at the Orange County Museum of Art’s

South Coast Plaza Gallery in Costa Mesa, on zines, publications by a

person or small group that are typically about art, music or politics

“I think we are all anxious. I think we all enjoy our jobs, take

it seriously and work very hard at it. But in the end, we serve at

the pleasure of the City Council and we’ll have to see what their

pleasure is.”

-- Bruce Garlich, Costa Mesa Planning Commissioner, on the

upcoming City Council decision to appoint the next five

commissioners, a list that may or may not still include Garlich and

his fellow members

“Thank God for computers.”

-- Steve Bromberg, Newport Beach’s mayor, on the fact technology

will be used to redraw the seven City Council district’s in the city

“Everyone will be looking at you and they won’t look at me. Ah,

nice doggie.”

-- Velma Scott, a resident at Silverado Senior Living home, while

talking to Willi, the retired racing greyhound the home recently

adopted from a rescue center