TV Producer Steps up to Bat with Baseball Poetry Book
Henry Schipper, a Venice based TV documentary producer and former journalist for the Hollywood trades–both Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, decided at age 72 to do something he had ever considered before. Write a bunch of poems about his beloved sport of baseball, and how the sport is a metaphor for both our lives, and […]
Redondo Beach City attorney Mike Webb retires after five terms
by Garth Meyer Mike Webb has spent half his life at Redondo Beach City Hall. The just-retired five-term city attorney, and before that 11-year city prosecutor, started at age 31. He is now 62. Five of his six children are pursuing law, the sixth is an actor. A career prosecutor, he spent the first season […]
Normandie on Crenshaw: Delices du Chef brings French regional cuisine to the South Bay
by Richard Foss The real estate mantra location, location, location is attributed to British property tycoon Harold Samuel (1912–1987), but is probably much older. It appeared in the Chicago Tribune in 1926, when he was just fourteen years old. The glamour of a famous street still has an allure, as does a nice view, but […]
Freedom sounds: The Skatalites celebrate 60 years of Ska at Saint Rocke
by Gavin Heaney Bouncing offbeat bursts of chordal horns, guitar and keys counterpoint walking bass lines as the high hat skips around the shuffling drum beat, accenting African and Caribbean rhythms. The ska is an offset boogie woogie groove that incites riotous dancing known as skanking and The Skatalites were the innovators of ska music, […]
Row over ROW between Hermosa, Redondo City Councils
Kevin Cody A parade of Redondo Beach officials and residents urged the Hermosa City Council to oppose a Metro light rail line, to be called the K Line, being built along the railroad right-of-way (ROW) that passes through North Redondo. The four-mile-long K Line would extend the C Line (formerly the Green Line), from the […]
Making headlines: “Newsies” the musical plays two weekends in Manhattan Beach
by Bondo Wyszpolski Earlier this year, director Tamarah Ashton proposed three musicals to the Manhattan Beach Community Church Theater for their spring show. This story is about the one they chose. “Mamma Mia!” and “Into the Woods” will just have to wait. “Newsies,” however, had been Tamarah’s choice all along. “It’s just really energetic and […]