Double Header: Redondo Union boys, girls win school’s first-ever CIF Southern Section soccer championships
by Garth Meyer The last time he looked at the clock it showed seven seconds. Jaden Hancock was upfield, under the lights, playing in the second of two Southern Section CIF championship soccer games at home Feb. 26. The RUHS girls had already won when the boys were in the last throes of a first […]
Kim Komick, Daughter of the Beach grew up to be Builder of the Beach
Redondo Beach mayor Bill Brand called Kim Komick a “Matriarch of the Beach.” Surf buddy Patti Nernberg said of Komick, “She fueled the flame that drove us to be better versions of ourselves.” South Bay Boardriders Club president Tom Horton recalled Komick, a SBBC founding member, one of the few female surfers who charged big […]
ALL BALL SPORTS LeBron, Lakers: Breaking up is hard to do
by Paul Teetor As everyone from Kim K and Kanye to J-Lo, A-Rod and Bennifer can tell you, breaking up is hard to do. And it’s incredibly hard and messy when it happens in public. Especially in the age of Twitter, Instagram and Tik Tok. But it’s REALLY hard to do and REALLY messy when […]
“Lincoln’s Dilemma”- Multi-faceted [TELEVISION REVIEW]
“Lincoln’s Dilemma,” the extraordinary four-part documentary on AppleTV+, introduces a more well-rounded portrait of the 16th President than I have previously experienced, and I’ve read at least 5 books about him from Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals, to James McPherson’s Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. All view him through the […]
“The Dropout” – Stay in school [TELEVISION REVIEW]
The story of Elizabeth Holmes has been told and told well in recent times. First there was Alex Gibney’s outstanding and chilling documentary “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley” (2019) where the chronology of Theranos, the so-called revolutionary company founded by Holmes is laid out clearly. Then of course there was the recent […]