The Los Angeles Flamenco Festival takes flight in Redondo Beach this weekend
The historic Los Angeles Flamenco Festival, featuring a rare California appearance by the legendary Vicente Amigo and the innovative LA-based Adam del Monte, kicks off this weekend at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.
Rock & Brews reopening soon with partner Gene Simmons of Kiss
A Kiss for El Segundo… And yes, it is just a coincidence that I have lots of El Segundo news in this column, but lots is happening there. I’ve noted in previous columns that Rock & Brews is reopening soon, but hadn’t mentioned the name of one of the partners – a fellow named Gene […]
A La Carte
Apologies and Congratulations… I misspelled Chef Greg Hozinsky’s name in an article a few weeks ago, and it was completely my fault – in the photo that I shot for the story, he was wearing a chef’s jacket with his name on it. Lots of people have been learning to spell Hozinsky lately, since Chris […]
Music & Comedy Calendar, March 23 – 28
ALPINE VILLAGE
Dance Rock, Soul Sister
ALVAS SHOWROOM
LA International Flamenco Festival Workshop
CAFÉ BOOGALOO
Special C featuring War Called Peace
BRIXTON
Queen Nation w/Thunderbird Motel
The McHandsomes perform at Club 705
Their business card reads: The McHandsomes. “They’re the Best.” Comedians/Musicians/Great Lovers. On the backside: “The Hardest Working Livers in Show Biz.”
Letters, March 22, 2012
Declining education Dear ER: Is this a Dickens’s character asking for more porridge please? The conscious optics are excellent without any concern for morality abstractly contrived, economically assured destruction, social justice using the phenomenal tools of Sol Alinsky, and Edward Bernay’s public relations psychology of crowd and herd instinct framed by “the scientific engineering of […]
SOUTH BRONX TO SOUTH BAY: The War Within
As details emerged about the identity of the soldier who allegedly murdered 16 Afghani civilians, mostly women and children, on March 11, I called up a college classmate of mine, a physician who for several years had worked part-time in the family-practice clinic at the man’s home base, Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, Wash. I wanted his […]
“4:44 Last Day On Earth” – if it were only true [MOVIE REVIEW]
Abel Ferrara, a cult filmmaker who may be in danger of losing his following with this film, has improvised – and I say this in the most generous possible way because nothing contained within this woe begotten project could possibly have been scripted – what one couple goes through for a couple of hours before […]
Macpherson Oil – Hermosa Beach: A Real Settlement
Over the past two weeks Hermosa Beach residents have begun digesting news of the Macpherson settlement. Naturally, after nearly 15-years and more than $4 million of no-holds-barred litigation, there are many questions about the details…
“Free Men” endeavor to be free men [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Free Men,” a thoughtful and thought-provoking film about an underground resistance movement centered within the Paris Mosque during the Nazi occupation brings to light surprising true events and characters seemingly ignored by history. Younes, a directionless Algerian immigrant, makes his living on the fringes of the black market during that dangerous time when the Nazis […]
The Trimpert family moves forward, leaving a positive imprint in their tracks
Rancho Palos Verdes residents Kim and Todd Trimpert will bid auf Wiedersehen to the Peninsula this summer, embarking on more than half a day’s journey to their new home in Stuttgart, Germany, with their two elementary-aged children in tow. It will be the couple’s eleventh move in 20 years. The Trimperts are a Coast Guard […]