Physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to speak at Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center
World-renowned astrophysicist, and leading space commentator Neil deGrasse Tyson will address Distinguished Speaker Series subscribers at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, November 14 at 8 p.m. deGrasse Tyson will discuss recent developments at NASA, the U.S. Space Force, space tourism, and the effects physics have on everyday events. deGrasse Tyson has achieved […]
Roots of the Romantic era
“Magnificent Rebels”, by Andrea Wulf (Alfred A. Knopf, 495 pp, $35) by Bondo Wyszpolski I suppose not many people in this country have heard of Jena, which in the late 18th and early 19th centuries had a population of about 4,500. It was, however, a university town, and for some years an oasis of free […]
Strange Siblings [restaurant review]
When chain restaurants began to flourish in the 1930s, they targeted people who were driving through strange towns and didn’t know a place that served anything they liked. If visitors saw a sign they recognized, a White Castle, A&W, Steak and Shake, or one of the other popular franchises of the day, they could pull […]