Writing Matini
Rachel Reeves was given seven months to report and write a book about a small South Pacific island nearly wiped out by a cyclone 17 years ago. She produced a masterpiece Last year, a young woman from a small island in the South Pacific was going about her daily business when she ran […]
Animal Farm at the Getty: Stay, Sit, Pose!
Animals in Photographs, by Arpad Kovacs (Getty Publications, 111 pp., $24.95) As an artistic medium, photography got cooking in the 1830s, but it wasn’t until 1870 that someone snapped a decent shot of a live animal in nature. Prior to that, because long exposures were required, an animal needed to be dead or comatose before […]
Young athletes capture championships at 11th annual Redondo Beach Triathlon
Redondo Beach Triathlon race director Rick Crump smiled Sunday morning as he watched 20-year-old DIllon Nobbs cross the finish line 2 ½ minutes ahead of his closest competitor. “It’s nice to see new faces win and the younger generation become so competitive,” Crump said. “It’s great for the sport.” Nobbs captured the 11th annual event […]
Beach Cities Sports: Baseball, basketball, running, volleyball and more
Soccer: Ian Lonergan, of Manhattan Beach, was recently called up by US Soccer to attend the US U-16 Boy’s National Team Training Camp to be held in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Lonergan, a freshman at Mira Costa, is a member of the LA Galaxy U-16 Academy team that won the 2014 US Soccer Developmental Academy National […]