Death and dining [restaurant review]
I am used to Mexican restaurants with a Day of the Dead theme, but still puzzled by them. Isn’t eating well a celebration of life? Why would I want to do that in an environment that reminds me that existence is fleeting, that my flesh will someday be stripped from my bones? Yes, there is […]
The rescuer: Lifeguard Stephens Troeger was one of the most unheralded of the great South Bay watermen
A recording used for several years in LA County Lifeguard training documents a call between Stephens Troeger, then the Baywatch captain on Catalina Island, and a team of doctors assisting him in trying to revive a two-month-old girl who had stopped breathing. People who hear the recording never forget it. The baby was suffering […]
Heard the rumors about Surf City Theatre?
They’re having an affair in Hermosa Beach Neil Simon’s “Rumors” is onstage at Surf City Theatre through March 8 (a review) The party’s about to get started, or is it? Charlie Brock and his wife Myra are commemorating their 10th wedding anniversary and the first couple to arrive, Chris Gorman (Marquel Skinner-Rogers) and her husband, […]
South Bay arts calendar from 2/27 to 3/4
Thursday, February 27 A diverse repertoire The Rawlins Piano Trio, with violinist Ioana Galu, cellist Sonja Kraus, and pianist Susan Keith Gray, performs standard works to new and undiscovered pieces, and they’re playing at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Theatre at El Camino College, Crenshaw and Redondo Beach boulevards, Torrance. The program includes works by […]
Redondo Beach Girl Scout cookies paid for with counterfeit $100 bills
Redondo Beach police are investigating a counterfeit bill scam that took advantage of a Girl Scout cookie booth outside of a North Redondo grocery store on Sunday night.