by Kevin Cody A $2 million payment by the City of Redondo Beach to CenterCal Properties was approved unanimously by the city council during a special meeting Friday evening, March 24. The payment settles five years of litigation during which CenterCal asked for $20 million, from the city primarily for breach of contract. Mayor Bill Brand and all five council members said they were pleased with the agreement. “Have you ever before heard a council clap when it adjourned,” Brand…
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Child drama, adult trauma
Scattered leaves “The Secret Garden” wilts at the Ahmanson by Bondo Wyszpolski In the 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett a cholera epidemic sweeps through British India and 10-year-old Mary Lennox is orphaned, then sent to Uncle Archibald Craven in Yorkshire, to a forlorn mansion that would be at home in a gothic tale by…
“Kubrick by Kubrick” – Brick by brick [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Kubrick by Kubrick,” the richly informative documentary by Gregory Monro, is a marvel of information gleaned from interviews of the master himself. Notoriously reclusive and tight-lipped, Kubrick rarely talked about his films and definitely not about himself. But there were exceptions, few as they were, and most of them were made for Michel Ciment, a…
New MB market, pies & deli in RB, construction delays explained, and other dining news
The Market Report: Hermosa Beach acquired its first stand-alone butcher shop in living memory this week, and you can read more about that elsewhere in this edition. In Manhattan, Nick & Sons Market & Deli is open in the former Moon’s Market on Highland, and there could hardly be a greater contrast with the previous…
Variations on a culinary theme
I was in a restaurant where the menu lists signature dishes, and it caused me to think about what my actual signature looks like. This is a distinctive scrawl that inspired my wife to remark that it always looks like I happened to have a pen in my hand during an earthquake. On the bright…
