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 […]

“Sweeney Todd” is the right recipe. 

by Nate Lee As with many other South Bay institutions in the arts and otherwise, it seemed like the South Bay Conservatory would never recover from the COVID pandemic. Having properly narrowed their focus to musical theater, the educational performing arts organization, founded in 1964, last tread the boards in 2019 with “Mary Poppins.”  Good […]

Man pulled from water in Hermosa Beach had wounds in the head

by Kevin Cody A dead man with wounds in his head was pulled from the ocean at 22nd Street in Hermosa Beach shortly after sunrise Friday morning, November 24. “During an initial assessment of the body, it appeared that the male may have received a significant injury from a gunshot,” Hermosa Police said in a […]