Endless Session, Day 335: Best Doctor Ever
I have the best sports doctor ever. He’s so awesome, that after our appointment this afternoon he came and surfed with me — partly just to get in the water, and partly to observe exactly how I was surfing to see if I was exacerbating my freshly sprained AC joint. Ed Scale pulled up to […]
Endless Session, Day 334: YEW
Today was ROAD TRIP DAY!!! Well, a road trip mere blocks north, but it was a different place, a different wave, and a welcome change of scenery from the same place I’ve been surfing for weeks straight. Jose Bacallao, water warrior and community activist, swooped me from my surf den and we flew up to […]
Endless Session, Day 333: Life Is Beautiful
Thank you ocean, thank you sun, and thank you sand. It’s short but sweet, and doesn’t require much else said. Life is beautiful on day 333.
Ultrafication Manhattan Beach: the impact of ultra wealth on the once laid back beach town
Manhattan Beach’s ultra wealthy are transforming every aspect of the once laid back, middle income beach town.
Mourners line up in droves for Chyna memorial service in Redondo Beach
Anthony Alzando stood on the stage of the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center before an audience who came from around Los Angeles — and his first message was one of caution. “We’re not going to use the ‘f-word’ tonight — funeral,” Alzando said. “Tonight’s about friends, family and fans.” Hundreds of fans turned out in […]
Bill would aid Redondo Beach in buying AES land
A state legislature bill, currently working its way through the California Senate, might give Redondo Beach a chance to buy a portion of the AES power plant property using state funds. Assembly Bill 2444 was passed last week by the California State Assembly after adding language that would allow for the City of Redondo […]
Long Live Eken is Dead: South Bay’s truly alternative rock
Put down the mandolin, flip the distortion, and turn up the Marshall: South Bay’s truly alternative rock band by Ed Solt Have bands with any traces of metal been left to rust in the previous decade? The marques don’t lie. Currently, popular music playing at South Bay venues tends to fall on the softer side. […]
Going, Going, Gone? “Horses and Dragons” and “Vanishing Animals” at the Aquarium of the Pacific
In his novel, “Tereza Batista,” Jorge Amado muses on the other two-thirds of our planet: “There were all sort of things in the sea: fishes and castaways, black octopuses and silver rays, ships from the other side of the world, and sargasso plantations.” There are all sorts of things in the Aquarium of the Pacific […]
The rebellion isn’t beginning at Rebel Republic Social House, and that’s just fine [RESTAURANT REVIEW]
Try imagining what Star Wars would have been like with Darth Vader as the hero. He must have been, to somebody, because all those guys in white armor kept obeying his orders despite the fact that they must have had much higher insurance premiums as a consequence. (Somehow the Empire doesn’t seem like the kind […]
Letters to the Editor 6/30/16
Freeze ‘em before the next meltdown Dear ER: I spent several hours watching the Manhattan Beach City Council debate the budget for the next fiscal year. Manhattan Beach residents deserve excellent services from the city staff, but at what cost? Just look at the compensation for the city manager and three of his key staff […]
“Argentina” – Better than the film [MOVIE REVIEW]
Carlos Saura, the renowned Spanish filmmaker now in his mid 80s, has focused his lens on the folk dances of Argentina, much like he has done with the Flamenco, tango and fado music cultures. Enamored of the folk tradition of the Argentine countryside he has gathered together a group of popular folksingers, musicians and […]
In ‘Swiss Army Man’ the First Fart Will Make You Laugh, the Last Will Make You Cry [MOVIE REVIEW]
Morgan Rojas & H. Nelson Tracey/www.cinemacy.com One should know what one is getting into with “Swiss Army Man,” and that is the number of fart jokes. But these aren’t the typical fart jokes associated with raunchy comedies (some of Adam Sandler’s projects come to mind), these fart jokes are insights into existential reflection and self-discovery. […]
“Our Kind of Traitor” – But definitely one of us [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Our Kind of Traitor,” Hossein Amini’s brilliant adaptation of John LeCarré’s novel directed by Susanna White, is breathtaking in every sense of the word from first moment to last. Opening on a dancer in mid-aerial pirouette, impossibly muscled, impossibly athletic, impossibly daring, White establishes her plot and characters immediately with this metaphoric solo. While wives and […]