Inspired by Plato, art at the Getty Villa
Poking the brain, but forgetting the heart “Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists’ Vision” at the Getty Villa – a review Why Plato? If Western philosophy is a drainage canal, Plato sits at the source and what he has deposited flows down the long meandering stream, to be joined by the conceptual droppings of Saint Augustine, […]
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Manhattan Beach About Town
Rounder’s Founders On July 24, four of the Roundhouse Aquarium founders will discuss the challenges and rewards of starting a marine studies lab in the 1970s. Their conversation will be moderated by Lynne Gross, an Aquarium Board member. John Roberts, Board president, will give an update on the current renovation. 7 – 8:30 p.m. Manhattan […]
Redondo Beach About Town
Public Works staff honored for stopping fire Redondo Beach Public Works staffers Alfonso Macias and Tyler Williams were commended at the Monday, July 16 Public Safety Commission for quickly quashing a small fire at the Redondo Pier. It was late on Sunday, May 6, when Macias and Williams smelled smoke near Old Tony’s, at the […]
J.R. Organics, a 5th generation farm family, perfects its produce
Back in the mid-1980s, Joe Rodriguez Jr. asked his father for an acre of the family farm. He’d been applying pesticides to crops on the family’s 80 acres and it had made him feel sick. His idea was to try something different. Joe Jr. wanted to farm without chemicals. Joe Sr. was skeptical, but he […]