Manhattan Beach World Surf Ski Champion Tim Burdiak wins Lanakila Classic
Photos by Mike McKinney by Kevin Cody Two-time U.S. surf ski champion and 2016 World Surf Ski Champion Tim Burdiak, of Manhattan Beach, won the Lanakila Classic Long Course Race (nine miles) on Saturday. The warm, windless day drew 108 paddlers for the Long Course race, and 117 for the Short Course race (five miles). […]
Behind the red curtain at the Hermosa Beach Historical Society Museum
by Kevin Cody by Kevin Cody On a recent Saturday afternoon a 60ish-year-old woman arrived at the Hermosa Beach Historical Museum and asked to see what was behind the red curtain Historical Society Board Member Carol Reznichek, who was the volunteer docent that afternoon, asked the visitor why.” “My friends told me there’s a picture […]
“Huda’s Salon” – Cutting [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Huda’s Salon” is an intense showdown between right and wrong, loyalty and betrayal, innocence and guilt, all of which are seemingly played without emotional shades of gray. An effective thriller that pits captive against captor, concretely and metaphorically, “Huda’s Salon” skirts the bigger unspoken issue of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank to focus […]
Travel: San Francisco’s 10 Greatest Photo Hits
San Francisco isn’t the most visited U.S. city. In fact it’s no. 5, after New York, Miami, our Los Angeles and Orlando, attracting 3.3 million visitors yearly, per the World Atlas. But it happens to be the most photogenic, IMHO, with more photo eye candy per square mile than its competitors. Think about it—the New […]