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Best story: $500 Best photographs: 1st prize: Paul’s Photo credit of $300. 2nd Prize: Paul’s Photo credit of $250. 3rd prize: Paul’s’s Photo credit of $250 Best video: 1st Prize: Paul’s Photo credit of $300 Deadline: Monday, August 4, 2025 Story guidelines: Submissions must be on disk or emailed. Stories may be real, imaginary or […]
Folkloric and surreal, an operatic tale of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera “El último sueño de Frida y Diego” by Bondo Wyszpolski The glowing heat of an intense orange-and-blue set pervades “El último sueño de Frida y Diego” (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego), a two-act opera, in Spanish, by composer Gabriela Lena Frank […]
Video by Jefferson Graham The seven candidates for Manhattan Beach City Council spoke in a candidate forum at the Shade Hotel Wednesday Night, October 12. The event was sponsored by the Downtown Manhattan Beach Business and Professional Association and moderated by the association’s executive director Jill Lamkin. The candidates include newcomers Frank Chiella and Rita […]
It’ll get a little crazy “Lucia di Lammermoor” opens the new season at LA Opera by Bondo Wyszpolski Things are frenetic from the get-go in “Lucia di Lammermoor,” Gaetano Donizetti’s tale of murder, madness, and betrayal. Bolstered by Salvatore Cammarano’s smart libretto and based on Sir Walter Scott’s 1819 novel, “The Bride of Lammermoor,” the […]
Video by Jefferson Graham Special thanks to Derek Levy, Body Glove, Pat Ryan/ET Surf, Jefferson Graham Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame inductee Derek Levy said he first aspired to be Surfing Santa over four decades ago, when he was on the Mira Costa High surf team, and saw Surfing Santa on Easy Reader’s […]
After six years away, in an office complex on Pacific Coast Highway, the Easy Reader offices are back where they belong, in the heart of downtown Hermosa. The new address: 67 14th Street, right next to the Grandview Inn. “It’s very uplifting to be here,” says Kevin Cody, the owner-publisher of the Easy Reader. The […]
Farewell, my lovely World premiere “Eurydice” at LA Opera: a review Writing an opera may be a solitary endeavor, but staging it with all its bells and whistles (from lighting and set design to costuming and, of course, the right singers) is a collaborative enterprise, and “Eurydice” now at LA Opera is an example of […]