Easy Reader 54th Anniversary Writing, Photography, Video, and Cartoon Contest
2024 Easy Reader Writing, Photography, Video, and Cartoon Contest Best story: $500 Best photographs/videos: 1st prize: Camera [Canon/Nikon]. 2nd Prize: Camera [Canon/Nikon]. 3rd prize: Camera [Canon/Nikon] Deadline: Monday, August 5, 2024 Story guidelines: Submissions must be on disk or emailed. Stories may be real, imaginary or confabulated. Preference will be given to stories relating to […]
Frida and Diego: coming to life on the Day of the Dead
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 […]
Manhattan Beach City Council Candidates Forum Wednesday night at the Shade Hotel
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 […]
Lucia di Lammermoor: A killer opera
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 […]
Travel: Bosque Del Apache, New Mexico
Surfing Santa brings smiles with surf to the beach cities
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 […]
How to Start a Successful Vlog
It’s been 16 years since Youtube launched, taking the internet and people’s lives by storm and revolutionizing what we consider as video-based entertainment. There’s now a vlog channel for whatever your interests are, and with so many successful vloggers out there. It’s natural to want to put yourself out there and share your own […]
Easy Reader is back in downtown Hermosa Beach
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 […]
How to Increase YouTube Subscribers in 2021
In the starting days of YouTube, the subscribers of a channel had made no difference whatsoever. All it did was bring you some recognition on the platform to an equally small audience. Times have changed drastically, and with time, YouTube has evolved into the second largest search engine on the planet that we all know […]
Orpheus and Eurydice: her point of view
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 […]