Posts by Mark McDermott
Books: glamorous models, actresses, socialites
If you placed Twiggy or Penelope Tree in one palm and The World in Vogue in the other, the latter would be heavier. There are some 300 photographs in this large-format, glossy book, culled from the past few decades of Vogue magazine, and it not only contains an A-list of models and actresses and socialites, but an impressive array of photographers.
Read MoreThe Beat goes on
Darkness was spreading across England. It was 1979, and the empire was definitively dead. The formerly mighty nation’s influence had waned worldwide. At home, factories were shuttered. Angry skinheads were on the march. The end seemed nigh. What emerged from the industrial Midlands that very year was, therefore, surpassingly strange. It was a new kind…
Read MoreA soldier’s story: A mission goes amiss for a South Bay soldier serving in Afghanistan
September 10 was supposed to be a down day for the Ugly Ducklings. The self-dubbed ducklings are a three-man Army military police team stationed in the mountains of northeast Afghanistan, part of roughly 50-man platoon whose primary goal upon deployment last May was to train Afghani military police. But by September, the platoon’s second squad…
Read MorePolice break Cori Desmond case
A suspect in the killing of Cori Desmond has been found. The San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner’s Department last Thursday arrested Tony Lopez Perez, a 35-year-old Redondo Beach resident. Perez has been charged with murdering Desmond, a 28-year-old Torrance resident who was last seen in the early morning hours of Feb. 15 outside Bogeys Bar and…
Read MoreNo Dog Left Behind: 786 dogs saved from nearly certain death
Cathy Rubin and Rover Rescue have saved 786 dogs from nearly certain death. Her mission is to find a home for every dog. There are rooms in animal shelters where the dogs that are too injured, sick or unsightly are caged. While most shelter dogs have some chance that someone might come and take them…
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