Theater Review: Once On This Island
Like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, who seeks to escape the doldrums down a rabbit hole, or L. Frank Baum’s Dorothy, who dreams of ditching Kansas for somewhere over the rainbow, the protagonist of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s one-act musical “Once on This Island” sets out in pursuit of bigger and better things. The show’s heroine, […]
“Detachment”: it disengages [MOVIE REVIEW]
Director Tony Kaye begins his latest film, “Detachment,” with a quote from Albert Camus – “And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.” We are then introduced to Henry Barthes who makes his living as a substitute teacher. As a […]
“The Deep Blue Sea” where the devil also resides [MOVIE REVIEW]
In “The Deep Blue Sea,” we meet Hester, previously Lady Collyer, as she is preparing for suicide in her squalid flat in a down-at-the-mouth blitzed out London neighborhood. Hester gave up everything in a moment of passion to live with her lover Freddy, a good looking, feckless young man for whom flying for the RAF […]
Hermosa Beach kids help design park
Hermosa Beach school kids envisioned tree houses, “spy scopes” and lots of stuff to climb and swing on, in imaginative designs they submitted forSouthPark, which will be renovated this summer with the help of a $150,000 grant from Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe. The kids, in kindergarten through fifth grades, were taking part in […]
The man who quit money (and the writer who told his tale)
Former river guide and Manhattan Beach native Mark Sundeen delivers a myth for our times – one that happens to be a true story.
Conversation with a flamenco master: Vicente Amigo performs in Redondo Beach at the LA Flamenco Festival
The legendary guitarist Vicente Amigo will headline the two-day Los Angeles Flamenco Festival this weekend at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center.
Redondo Beach News Briefs, March 22 – March 29, 2012
Parking rate changes The Plaza Plaza Parking Structure will soon be removing their current parking program and moving to a pilot pay-by-space system in early April. The entry and exit gates will be removed and parking rates have been adjusted. The new rates range from $1.50 to $2 an hour depending on season, only charging […]
Redondo Beach USD prepares for cuts
Redondo Beach parents and teachers got a surprise in their inbox last week after Superintendent Steven Keller sent out an email outlining the district’s budgetary predicament and underlining the relationship and finite future of forty temporary teachers in the district.
Graffiti paints RUHS campus
Upon entering the Redondo Union High School’s campus on Monday, it was clear there was a rat problem.
Armed with stencils and spray-paint, somebody snuck onto the campus sometime on Sunday, March 11, and painted rats crawling over the walls of the campus.
Windsurfer likely exited water, lifeguards say
Reports from two witnesses of a windsurfer off of First Street in Manhattan Beach, struggling in 10-foot swells and winds gusting at 40 miles per hour, led to a two-hour search by Los Angeles County lifeguards on Sunday morning.
Manhattan Beach Police cite 4 in shoulder tap sting
Police cited one person in Manhattan Beach, one in Hermosa Beach and two in El Segundo for buying alcohol for a minor, while conducting a shoulder-tap sting on March 16.