In the kitchen with Chef Bell: Sunday fried peppers
by Chef Robert Bell In the early 1950s, I was “mostly” Italian growing up in Bensonhurst, which was a nice Italian and Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. Aside from being a good Catholic, food was the most important part of my life. Every Sunday, after Mass we would feast with the family, extended of course. The […]
Wayfarers Chapel Resurrection
by Rev. Dr. David Brown Christians have entered into the Season of Lent, with Ash Wednesday marking 40 days (not including Sundays) until Easter. Ash Wednesday is a day of prayer and fasting and a reminder of our mortality. Lent is not meant to be a celebration. It is a sobering reminder to use our time […]
Don Slaught goes to Peninsula High Athletic booster Club Hall of Fame
After 16 years in the Major Leagues, the Rolling Hills High catcher starts second career as coach and hitting ‘whisperer’ by Chelsea Sektnan Former Major League Baseball catcher and longtime Palos Verdes resident Don Slaught was inducted into the Peninsula High Athletic Booster Club Hall of Fame at a fundraiser on March 7 at the […]
Transportation is a feminist issue, chauffeuring a tax
by Grace Peng When I was a kindergartener in Taipei, I witnessed a woman in our neighborhood get hauled away in a military police Jeep. People whispered that no one would see her for a long time, if ever again. Taiwan endured 38 years of Martial Law. When I moved to the US, I thought […]
Community rallies in Redondo on International Women’s Day
by Vanessa Poster An estimated 500 women, men, and children gathered at the steps of the old Redondo Beach library, in Veterans Park, to commemorate International Women’s Day on Saturday, March 8. The crowd included long-time feminist activists, supportive men, and families with kids wearing butterfly wings. The event was organized by Arnette Travis of […]
All Ball Sports: Say a prayer for JuJu Watkins, rooting for “laundry with numbers”
by Paul Teetor The worst thing you could imagine happening to the USC women’s basketball team happened Monday night: superstar JuJu Watkins suffered a season-ending knee injury. It’s now up to the UCLA women to bring an NCAA Championship home to LA. That was the grim reality after Watkins suffered a torn ACL in the […]