Arts & Entertainment
The Maestro and Leaky Lopez: Adventures and misadventures of building a Residencia in Baja
The Maestro’s masterpiece in Punta Piedra, Baja California, complete in just over two years for author Robert Parucha and his family.
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The Deep: Voyages To Titanic and Beyond
Beach Books -A local adventurer brings a Russian
explorer’s epic tales to America
The Deep: Voyages To Titanic and Beyond by Anatoly M. Sagalevich, with Paul Isley III. Botanical Press (www.botanical-Press.com). 298 pages. $64.95
(Editor’s note: Isley, a Manhattan Beach resident, botanist and adventurer, translated, co-wrote, and published the first English edition of Anatoly M. [...]
Palos Verdes Blue
Beach Books - Matching characters with memories
Palos Verdes Blue, by John Shannon (Pegasus Books, 320 pp., $25)
by Bondo Wyszpolski
John Shannon writes fast-paced “neo-noir” thrillers set in Southern California, and Palos Verdes Blue, set largely in and around Lunada Bay, but also in the surrounding areas of Torrance and Redondo Beach, is the eleventh in the [...]
Inside the House of Money
Beach Books
Smart guys go macro
by Tom Fitt
Inside the House of Money, by Steven Drobny. Wiley, John and Sons. 384 pages. $29.95
If you select Steven Drobny’s Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets as summer beach reading, be sure to stash [...]
Smile Southern California: You’re the Center of the Universe
Beach Books - We are the champions
Smile Southern California: You’re the Center of the Universe, by James Flanigan. Stanford General Books, 216 pages. $27.95
by Kevin Cody
“Doubts about the Los Angeles area were particularly strong after the 1994 quake,” observed Palos Verdes resident and then Los Angeles Times financial columnist James Flanigan in a 1997 Easy [...]
The Shore: much, much more than a bar
One of the most iconic commercials of the ’70s was the running gag about the lonely Maytag repairman who never got any calls because the machines he serviced never broke down. It was a cute idea, someone itching to do a good job, but not getting a chance to show off his skills.
A recent experience [...]
Hotdogging 11/6/08
Pop singer/songwriter and local favorite Sara Haze performs Saturday, Nov.8, at Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach. She will sing an acoustic set to open for noted singer/songwriter Chris Pierce. Show begins at 8:30 p.m. For tickets ($10) and information, call 310-372-0035 or visit saintrocke.com.
Thursday, November 6
Jazz legend recalled
Well, remembered more than recalled. Yes, the Third [...]
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Before there was reggae music, there was rocksteady.
It was soul music that emanated from the roughest parts of Kingston, Jamaica, and featured sweet harmonies, a big thumping bass line and an impeccably mellow groove. Some say rocksteady emerged from a single hot summer in the middle of the 1960s when it was too steamy to [...]
