Easy Home Improvement Projects – Quick Wins for Your Home
Home improvement projects may seem intimidating if it’s your first time undertaking them, but even small renovations can give your house an instantaneous facelift. DIY upgrades will make your house feel brand new in no time at all, whether that be fixing a squeaky floorboard or updating cabinet hardware. Paint Your Walls Painting is one […]
From ace reporter to noted artist: Will Shuck’s paintings on view at Easy Reader
Three local artists plus… …a former Easy Reader news editor who now wields a paintbrush by Bondo Wyszpolski In the late 1990s, Will Shuck covered the Manhattan Beach beat for Easy Reader, and his cubicle was next to mine. We became pals as well as colleagues and so, one day, when the Boss was otherwise […]
Letters to the Editor 7-25-24
Mucked up Dear ER: Thank you for featuring Jules Muck (“Painting the Town,” ER July 18, 2024). It’s true, Muck’s Riviera Village dining deck murals were celebratory ribbons, which made it so disappointing when they were replaced with the current ode to blandness. Barbara Schratwieser Redondo Beach Whose mouth? Dear ER: This whole […]
Summer of New Art Easy Reader 2024
Edited by by Kimie Joe Art That Inspires Through Friday, May 31 Malaga Cove Library Art Gallery Billed as a “Mother & Daughter Celebration,” “Art That Inspires” highlights the colorful work of painters Jeanne Zaske (birds, flowers, still lifes) and her daughter Lynnie Sterba (swirling abstracts). The closing reception (6 to 8 p.m. on […]
52nd Anniversary Writing & Photography Contest – Honorable Mention
Pow! The Painting, me and Muhammad Ali by Don Scott I moved to the South Bay in late ’78 thinking I had the drafting job at Long Beach State in the bag. It was down to me and one other guy, and I’d just been the campus draftsman at Cal State Sonoma. I didn’t get […]
Counting Crows coming to Redondo BeachLife
by Whitney Youngs What does it mean to give yourself over to a thing that does not care whether you quit or persist, a thing indifferent to your failings or triumphs? Known under many descriptors—painting, dance, music, stand-up comedy, theatre—this thing, art, can appear in moments of creative expression, moments we’ve all surely experienced, even […]
Beach sports – First wins fourth
Los Angeles County Lifeguard Max First, of Manhattan Beach, and Australian lifeguard Lachie Lansdown led a field of nearly 100 paddlers in the 41st Catalina Classic Paddleboard Race on Sunday, August 25. The two exchanged leads while setting a record pace from the start at Two Harbors on Catalina Island to the R10 buoy, four […]