Barfly: free pizza, boxes of wine, and Bastille Day
FREE Pizza: Did that get your attention? Good because you must hurry as today, Thursday, July 14 is the last day to receive your FREE 8” pizza at Extreme Pizza, PCH, RB, wrapping a four-day grand opening celebration/fundraiser to benefit the South Bay Children’s Health Center. All they ask is that you give a $1 donation […]
Carmageddon: Day of the Four-OJ-Five
When O.J. Simpson tore off his public mask and let his shadow run wild, he threw his coming-out party on the 405, riding its back in a white Ford Bronco with slow savor, an antihero atop a twisting multilane serpent. O.J. had come to ride the serpent, not to slay it. As he took his […]
Sand in my Suit: Louvre Me Louvre Me Not
You know that security blanket I was talking about in my column before last? Well, I must have bought mine on clearance, or simply been blinded by bliss and not noticed its rips and tears when it was draped so carelessly around my shoulders. In one weekend I grew closer with a gent and got […]
“Les Misérables”
Based on the 1862 epic novel by Victor Hugo, the musical version of “Les Misérables” unfolds like a Wagnerian opera – dark, foreboding, larger than life, and sailing straight for the shoals of its tragic destiny. It’s been 30 years since Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil brought their work to the stage, and it can […]
Hoist the Colors: They’re on the Attack
Weirdo Irish Punk Pirates Hoist the Colors of a Folk Rock Flag “We all grew up listening to punk rock… A few of us grew up in families where Irish music and bluegrass was being played… So we took all of that stuff and kind of put it into a blender, which became the sound […]
Redondo pier concert series launches
The Redondo Pier summer concert series has been rebooted, and its sunset-speckled stage is now home to the most ambitiously diverse and largest array of acts of any of the free concert series in the South Bay. The series, dubbed the “2011 Summer of Music,” features acts that range from flamenco to prog-rock, from down-home […]
BBR launches campaign to de-power plant in Redondo Beach
The citizens group Building a Better Redondo last week launched an initiative effort aimed at rezoning the AES power plant site so that power generation would no longer be allowed beginning in 2020. The “slow growth” group intends to gather signatures and place an initiative on a municipal ballot that would give voters the option […]
A La Carte: of Yelp, Rockefeller, Oliver’s, The Crush, The Standing Room, and BarComida
With All Due Respect To Utah… In my review of Barnacles a few weeks ago, I mentioned that it was the only restaurant outside Utah at which I had not been able to get coffee or tea with breakfast. After that review appeared, I was contacted by Lesli Neilsen of the Salt Lake Tribune, who […]
Carmageddon? So what
The end is nigh.
Or, at the very least, hell on Earth could arrive somewhere in the middle of the historically epic traffic jam expected to clog the Interstate 405 Freeway and its environs when a 10-mile stretch of the road closes for 53 hours beginning midnight Friday.