Entertainment: The Year in Pictures
From El Segundo down the coast to Palos Verdes, art galleries are featuring new work every few weeks. The Power of Art, as usual was a big hit, and so was Flag Stop. Picking one example from each month [...]
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Gallery goddess Peggy Zask
Running an art gallery takes smarts – and passion Peggy Zask has been providing a place for visual artists to show their work for over two decades. In the last couple of years she’s had to move twice, but each [...]
The Nightlife: 5 Places open after 2 a.m. to Fuel your Drunk Munchies
Soon to open: Establishment, formerly Blue 32. Could be as early as December 27, or possibly January 11. Mike, Wealthy, and the gang will return. You miss those beaded drapes and so do I. Unfortunate closing in Hermosa: Amigos Tacos, [...]
Music previews: jazz and blues for the holidays
Jazz for the holidays The best kept musical secret in the South Bay for the last two years has been the ongoing residency of the Richard Sherman Trio featuring Bili Redd at the Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes Estates. Those [...]
Beachbilly Bluegrass
The Green Blossom String Band rides the wave of folk revivalism Folk is the foundation of all spoken word music (music with song). It is the most malleable form of music, capable of adapting any variation – from Celtic jig [...]
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War Horse: Speilberg’s beautiful but flawed anti-war epic [MOVIE REVIEW]
“War Horse,” Steven Spielberg’s newest release, is a technical beauty. Cinematographer Janusz Kaminsky, production designer Rick Carter, costume designer Joanna Johnston and composer John Williams are the true stars of this film. Based on the children’s book by Michael Morpurgo [...]
Bartender of the Week: Cliff Guy at Paul Martin’s American Bistro
Bartender of the Week: Cliff Guy at Paul Martin’s American Bistro on Rosecrans in El Segundo. Cliff’s never say no attitude, stealth confidence when mixing, and ability to invent on the fly make him a favorite of both customers and [...]
Music previews: The return of Electric Blue, and a blues apostate
Electric Blue was almost famous. They were a locally-based band whose humble roots were playing gigs in the back of flatbed trucks at Grateful Dead shows in the 1980s but who later toured with the likes of Jane’s Addiction, the [...]