Jeff Joseph

Santa Ana-based Trinity Broadcasting Network boasts in its latest newsletter that it's rapidly expanding the company's digital TV reach for its popular religious programming: "Look out satan, God's Kingdom is coming!" There's just one problem: It's not coming quickly enough for the Federal Communications Commission.

When movies seemed in danger of losing audiences to TV in the early 1950s, Hollywood tried to find ways to lure to people back into theaters. (Remember wide-screen movies?) One gimmick that worked for a while was 3-D films. Their golden age began in 1952 with the action flick "Bwana Devil." Over the next few years, 50 3-D movies were made before the novelty wore off. In the '80s, 3-D returned with such forgettable entries as "Jaws 3-D" and "Amityville 3-D."

Until I saw David French's "Jitters," I never knew that Toronto theater reviews are written right after the show for the next morning's paper. If "Jitters" had a subtitle, it would be "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Theater, But Were Afraid to Ask." At times, "Jitters" (at the Gnu) achieves such a documentary vitality in depicting the pressures of a theater opening that it almost makes you forget the nonsense that French lets in. That review, for instance.

Los Angeles city prosecutors Thursday escalated their efforts to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries, suing three collectives and moving to evict 18 others from their stores. The actions, which stem from undercover police operations at the dispensaries, follow City Atty. Carmen Trutanich's pledge to take aggressive steps to reverse the rapid spread of pot shops. Hundreds have opened while the City Council debated an ordinance to regulate them. The council passed the law last month, but it has not taken effect.

Thumbing through accounting documents and investigative notes, an auditor testified Thursday that fired Department of Transportation cashier Linda Silverthorn signed at least seven bank deposit slips in which more than $3,600 was missing. However, under questioning by Silverthorn's lawyer, auditor Gina Schumacher said several documents show that others besides Silverthorn had handled some of the cash transactions in which money disappeared from the cashier's office at Caltrans in San Diego.

The state attorney general's office is looking into allegations that workers at a Pomona cemetery mixed together the ashes of cremated corpses in a garbage can and dumped them in a vacant lot that is now a construction site. The allegations, made by three former employees who lost their jobs at Pomona Valley Memorial Park earlier this year, have been investigated by the state Cemetery Board, which finished its report earlier this week. The attorney general's office received the report Friday and will issue its response next week, spokeswoman Christie Mullen said.

The San Clemente City Council voted unanimously Monday night to let Hal Joseph remain on the Planning Commission after hearing a city attorney's opinion that his role in bringing a developer to a project in the city would result in only a temporary conflict of interest. City Councilman Tom Lorch said the question of Joseph's removal from the Planning Commission was "an emotional issue . . . and something we still don't have all the facts on."

Sophomore Russell Lakey made a 15-foot shot with 14 seconds left to give Harvard-Westlake High a 70-69 victory over Crespi in a Mission League boys' basketball game Saturday night at Harvard-Westlake. Lakey finished with 15 points for the Wolverines (15-4, 4-2). Pat Casella scored 21 points for Crespi (9-10, 3-3). Chaminade 70, St.

The Pacific 10 football race has been sort of a king-of-the-mountain game so far this season--and the king doesn't stay on top very long. UCLA was the preseason choice to win the championship, but the Bruins lost stature when they were blown out by Oklahoma in an opening game, 38-3. Washington then became the favorite with impressive victories over Ohio State and BYU, only to be upset by USC.

For someone just turned 25, Daniel Rosen has racked up some mighty impressive credits, from winning an international juggling championship at 18 to appearing with Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller in "Sugar Babies" to writing his own comedy-rock songs to--this year alone--briefly serving as sidekick/announcer on "The Late Show" and appearing twice on "The Tonight Show." Whew. He has always been a precocious performer.