by Mark McDermott Five years had passed since the last Kaiwi Solo, the world championship of outrigger canoeing. The race had been canceled in 2019 by one of the treacherous storms that often haunt the channel, a tumultuous body of water between the Molokai and Oahu islands, which translated from Hawaiian means “the channel of bones.” The pandemic wiped out the next three years until finally, the race resumed on May 16. Danny Ching didn’t know what to expect. He’d…
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Leviathans on film, and in the Great Hall
Swimming with the fishes and the whales Where? At the California Science Center and the Aquarium of the Pacific by Bondo Wyszpolski There’s little quite as thrilling as a big subject on a big screen, and it doesn’t get any larger than “Blue Whales: Return of the Giants” on an IMAX screen over at the…
“All Man: The International Male Story” – Male order [MOVIE REVIEWS]
Peter Jones, an Emmy Award-winning writer, has constructed a lovely, fluffy biography of the mail order catalog that swept the 70s and 80s and changed the face (and body) of mens’ fashion and fashion photography. Directed and edited by Bryan Darling at a breezy pace, “All Man: The International Male Story” tells the origin story…
Hermosa holdout
The Beach Cities are noteworthy for their lack of fast food chain restaurants in our downtowns – there are plenty on PCH, but not a single one west of the highway. There used to be one exception, a Taco Bell south of the pier in downtown Hermosa. They served mediocre Americanized tacos and burritos to…
Breakfast in America, exemplified
Every time you sit down to a breakfast of bacon and eggs or pancakes, you participate in a ritual that is unlike the way most of the world eats. While some other cultures have traditional foods to start the day, America probably has the most varied selection of items eaten only at breakfast of anywhere…
