Meistrell’s Redondo Breakwater bomb earns him South Bay Boardriders Big Wave Challenge Award
“The best part of the ride was the view when I looked up.” — Tracey Meistrell describing the 25-foot wave that earned him the 2017 Big Wave Challenge Award.
Landing Zone Carol: A Memorial Day memory
Landing Zone (LZ) Carol was like Gilligan’s Island. Our days were spent perfecting our tans and telling headquarters we were winning the hearts and minds of local villagers. LZ was on the tip of a peninsula that jutted out 500 yards into Dam Trao Lake. It was 300 miles north of Saigon and light years away from what most grunts were enduring.
Rajiv Joseph’s “Archduke” – plotting murder at the Taper
Tubercular Bells: “Archduke” at the Taper (a review) The Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima would have grasped the opening and closing sequences of Rajiv Joseph’s “Archduke,” onstage through June 4 at the Mark Taper Forum. Mishima said that “We do not collide with our destiny all of a sudden,” but seemed to be introduced to it, […]
Hermosa Beach Police Beat
Furniture taken Two women drove off with patio furniture taken from a home on The Strand in South Hermosa earlier this month, according to police reports. The two suspects drove a truck onto the 100 block of The Strand about 3 a.m. May 11, police said. They proceeded to load furniture from the ground level […]