Interested in fine dining at some of Anaheim's more upscale eateries for a bargain price? Well, this week may be your chance.

The twice-yearly Orange County Restaurant Week kicked off yesterday and runs until Saturday September 19.

Many of OC's premier restaurants are participating, including Downtown Disney's Catal, Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen, Naples Ristorante, Tortilla Jo's, and GardenWalk's Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. and McCormick & Schmick's.

Each offers...

Last week, Disneyland’s Attractions Operations posted fliers on cast member bulletin boards warning to be on the lookout for counterfeit tickets. What’s curious is that the unauthorized reproductions aren’t of money-making media like admission passes, but rather of FastPasses and attraction readmission tickets.

The fliers, which have since been taken down, showed “a picture of a FastPass forgery and pointed out the stuff to watch out for,” one employee said. “It’s kind of difficult...

Amid a summer of Tinker Bell and Dumbo flying overhead, there’s been one longtime character who hasn’t been seen frequenting Fantasyland—Merlin the Magician.

Disneyland has, at least temporarily, retired the one-man show. “Unfortunately, Merlin and the ‘Sword in the Stone’ show are now history,” said one insider. “There will be no more shows where Merlin selects a child from the audience to pull Excalibur from the stone in front of the King Arthur Carrousel. Another casualty of budget...

Tickets to the new Walt Disney Family Museum go on sale August 1, 2009, at www.waltdisney.org. The museum's site goes live the same day. To keep the crowd size manageable, all admission to the museum will be by timed-ticket entry.

The museum's Facebook page and Twitter are already active at www.facebook.com/TheWaltDisneyFamilyMuseum and www.twitter.com/WDFMuseum.

Displays include the first known drawing of Mickey Mouse, shown here (http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/blog...1&d=1247867148)....

Walt Disney World Monorail service resumed about 2:00 yesterday afternoon, 36 hours after a collision that took the life of one driver. New safety measures that have been instituted support my suspicion of how the accident occurred: The drivers of the two Monorails were mistakenly led to believe that the spur track switch had been flipped so the first driver could safely back Monorail Pink onto the spur line, so both drivers disabled their anti-collision systems, allowing the off-duty Pink to back...