
Thursday morning looks a hair smaller and less consistent than Wednesday’s surf. But top West facing beaches will still be rifling in some ass kicker sets that will go way overhead. The beach breaks may be doable at high tide, but if it get’s as big as we think, you’ll be hard pressed to dig up a corner because of the long interval swell, as the tide drops.

Dan Burden, the country’s leading, if not only, expert on walking and biking in urban settings will share his expertise tonight in Manhattan Beach, Wed., Jan. 19; and tomorrow night in Redondo Beach, Jan. 20.
Burden is a leader of the Vitality City program, which, over the next three years, hopes to improve the physical and mental well being of beach city residents.

Vino Sexy: This Friday, January 21, Il Fornaio, Rosecrans, MB is hosting a wine dinner featuring varietals from the winery and tasting room of Bianchi, Paso Robles. Chef Vicente Mendoza has created a special, five-course menu pairing his culinary talent with the handcrafted Bianchi wines. The event, which starts at 6 p.m., begins with “antipasti e prosecco,” an assortment of Italian appetizers and traditional sparkling wine and continues on to the “primi” course of “melanzane,” (grilled eggplant, sliced and filled with goat cheese, basil, and sundried tomatoes in an olive oil/balsamic reduction).

Playwright Neil Simon once explained his personal view of creativity: “If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.” Had the Vatican venture been thus grounded, Mike would have stained his Sketchers, but suffered not the mauve in the macula and four years on a scaffold at the behest of Pope Julius II.

Youthful tattoos
Dear ER:
While I respect the U.S. Constitution and the right it provides to freedom of expression, I was shocked to read the Jan. 13, 2011, front page article in the Easy Reader [“Tattooing the Beach”].
The reference to “rich people” and “pretty people” together with Angelina Jolie and LeBron James is the wrong example.

Governor Jerry Brown doesn’t have a whole lot of options in his quest for a State budget that contains real solutions. In his budget message last week, Brown focused on one means to garner revenue for education by recommending that the Community Redevelopment Agencies (CRA) be discontinued and their money be redirected toward schools.