Tall Ship Lady Washington visits Redondo Beach Marina
Tall Ship Lady Washington visits Redondo Beach Marina The King Harbor Association invites you to see the majestic Lady Washington Tall Ship when it visits the Redondo marina Nov. 23-Nov. 30 (closed Thanksgiving). Public tours (donations welcome) Nov. 25, noon-5 p.m.; Nov. 26 & 27, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.; Nov. 29 & 30, 4-5 […]
The never ending “Weekend” from Hell [MOVIE REVIEW]
A newly restored and pristine print of the Jean-Luc Godard classic from 1968, “Weekend,” opens at the Nuart Theatre for one week beginning Friday, November 25. Godard, originally a writer for the iconic film criticism journal Cahiers du Cinema and a co-founder of the “New Wave” (along with fellow writers Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, and […]
Garbo the Spy tells the true tale of the Allies’ secret weapon [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Garbo the Spy,” a new documentary from novice director Edmon Roch, tells the tale of one of the Allies’ secret weapons in World War II, Juan Pujol Garcia. Pujol, a Spaniard from Barcelona, had a checkered history during the Spanish Civil War. Drafted by the Republicans, he went into hiding. Joining the army some time […]
Freud vs. Jung a beautiful period piece [MOVIE REVIEW]
In “A Dangerous Method,” David Cronenberg gives us a beautiful choreographed period piece, lushly filmed and intelligently told. Written by Christopher Hampton, using his own play “The Talking Cure,” John Kerr’s book A Dangerous Method and Jung’s own notebooks, the film unspools the ever widening rift between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and the man he […]
Saline Solution in Redondo Beach
Is a desalination plant part of the answer to the South Bay’s looming water crisis? It might be difficult to tell from the sprinklers and manicured grass, but Southern California is running out of water. The state’s latest drought designation was officially lifted last year, yet according to many experts, if development continues at its […]