Posts by Bondo Wyszpolski
Industrial and natural landscapes by Kevin Gilligan, on view this weekend
Smoke on the Water Industrial parks and natural parks, together in photos Although it predates most of the local residents who now object to its presence as a sort of Vesuvius in the making, the Torrance Oil Refinery (formerly the ExxonMobil Refinery) is increasingly at odds with the community that has grown up around it.…
Read MoreSouth Bay arts calendar for May 12 to 18
Friday, May 12 With beehive hairdos “Hairspray,” the Broadway musical, based on the 1988 film by crazy John Waters, is being presented by the El Camino College Theatre Department in the Campus Theatre with performances at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, plus Sunday at 3 p.m. Also May 19 and 20 at 8 p.m.…
Read MoreMother’s Day show at Saint Rocke with jazz pianist Bob Mamet
Moods and Melodies Jazz pianist Bob Mamet plays a Mother’s Day show at Saint Rocke Bob Mamet just can’t stay away, and that’s a good thing. The jazz pianist, who grew up in Chicago, where he’s again been living for about six years now, spent three decades in L.A. and about a third of that…
Read MoreBob Dylan fans! The 27th annual Dylanfest is this Sunday!
Come gather ’round people… Andy and Renée’s “Dylanfest” is on its 27th leg Bob Dylan didn’t need to pull in the Nobel Prize for Literature in order to be respected as a master tunesmith and lyricist. He’s had people passing along that idea for half a century. But it’s certainly a milestone, unprecedented in the…
Read MoreSouth Bay arts calendar May 4 to May 11
Thursday, May 4 Bring your sketchbook Polish your figure drawing skills with a live costumed model, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Manhattan Beach Art Center, 1560 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Manhattan Beach. It’s free, but you have to supply your own materials. This month it’s “Star Wars”-themed. Open to anyone 16 and above. (310)…
Read MoreA Spring Awakening at Destination: Art
“Colors of the South Bay” blooms at Destination: Art Finding it increasingly difficult to have their work shown in venues once more accommodating, such as the Palos Verdes Art Center and the Torrance Art Museum, a small group of local artists took matters in their own hands and formed Destination: Art. That was about three…
Read MoreTrombones! Cornets! The Music Man!
Marching Orders The Music Man raises his baton at the Norris Theatre Broadway musicals come and go, but 60 years after its debut “The Music Man” still lights up the marquees of theaters across the country. Right now it’s also lighting up the marquee of the Norris Theatre in Rolling Hills Estates where it opens…
Read MoreSouth Bay arts calendar for April 20 to 26
Thursday, April 20 Strumming for you pleasure Guitarist Mike Sullivan performs from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Torrance Art Museum, 3320 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, as part of Thursday Tunes at TAM, produced by Georgette Gantner. The current exhibition that surrounds the event is “Baker’s Dozen VI.” Suggested donation is $20. Call (310) 376-5577…
Read More“The Movement” – Kurt Miller’s film about disabled skiers airs Saturday night
Falling Down, but Standing Tall Kurt Miller’s “The Movement” screens Saturday on KNBC Channel 4 In 2004, Universal Studios executive Rick Finkelstein had some terrible luck. While skiing in Aspen he broke his back and collapsed both lungs. He was paralyzed from the waist down. Six years later, after nine surgeries and much rehab, he…
Read MoreThis Year’s Model: The Pastel Society of So. Cal in Torrance
An Oil Change, a Tune-Up, and a Work of Art Wall-to-wall with the Pastel Society of Southern California It’s 7:30 on a weekday morning and, like most of us, you’ve just brought your car into the South Bay Lexus Service Center in Torrance. It’ll only take 45 minutes, maybe an hour, so after you’ve poured…
Read MoreSouth Bay art calendar for April 13 – 19
Thursday, April 13 Grab your board The Hermosa Beach Historical Society is presenting a talk on the history of surf photography with John Grannis, son of LeRoy Grannis, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Hermosa Beach Museum, 710 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach. The elder Grannis transformed surf photography in the 1960s and captured its…
Read MoreThe Wondrous art of Shane Guffogg
“Dance of Thought” Paintings by Shane Guffogg in Manhattan Beach It will be a privilege to see recent work by Los Angeles-based artist Shane Guffogg in our corner of the universe, in a show presented by Homeira Goldstein and Time4Art, opening Wednesday at the Manhattan Beach Art Center. Guffogg thinks of his paintings as wordless…
Read MoreTziporah Salamon: All dressed up with somewhere to go
Style Stays, Fashion Fades Tziporah Salamon brings “The Art of Dressing” to the PV Art Center We won’t charge you, but by the time you’re done reading this article you’ll be on your way to becoming the best-dressed person on your block, and maybe in all of the South Bay, who knows. This coming Sunday,…
Read MoreSouth Bay arts calendar for April 6 to 12
Thursday, April 6 More legs than a millipede The 2017 American College Dance Association Baja Region Conference takes place Thursday through Sunday at El Camino College, Crenshaw and Redondo Beach boulevards, Torrance. There are four adjudicated concerts scheduled, Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 1:30 and 8 p.m. These cost $10 each. The…
Read MoreMorten Lauridsen joins the Joanna Medawar Nachef Singers on Sunday
When the Heavens Open, the Music Begins The Joanna Medawar Nachef Singers have a very special guest Morten Lauridsen is a man whose reputation precedes him. His “Lux Aeterna” is an undisputed choral masterpiece, his compositions have been performed worldwide and recorded on over 200 albums, and in 2007 President George W. Bush conferred upon…
Read MoreSouth Bay arts calendar: March 30-April 5
Thursday, March 30 Where the artists go Yorktown’s second annual celebration of local artisans takes place this evening from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and features works by Snygg Mas, Drica Lobo, Missy Patterson, Elisabeth Pohle, Shannon Wadsworth, Michael Panetta, and Susan Anderson. Limited tickets, $20 each (which includes sips and light bites), available at Yorktown,…
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