Kay and Tom Nam have owned Current Events in Manhattan Beach for 13 years. The shop, located at 1140 Highland, has struggled in recent years due to the economy and digital revolution.
Photo by Alene Tchekmedyian
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Newsstand surviving in digital age
Kay and Tom Nam have owned Current Events in Manhattan Beach for 13 years. The shop, located at 1140 Highland, has struggled in recent years due to the economy and digital revolution.
Photo by Alene Tchekmedyian
Our Hometown - 100 Years of Sun, Sand and Sea
Manhattan Beach, the hometown that we know and love, was officially incorporated in December 1912 and has a storied history that will be celebrated leading up to our Centennial in 2012. In its earliest days, the area was developed by several competing land companies. One major owner, George Peck, called his tracts "Shore Acres." John Merrill called his section "Manhattan Beach," after the famous resort in New York. According to another developer, Frank Daugherty, Peck and Merrill flipped a coin to determine a single name, and Manhattan Beach won.
From that time, Manhattan Beach has developed into a place that is truly special for residents and visitors alike. The beautiful beaches and year-round sunshine provide an ideal setting for the home of beach volleyball, visiting our iconic Pier, surfing or simply strolling along the strand! Beyond this beautiful ocean front, Manhattan Beach is a small, yet sophisticated, city that has it all. A city of lovely homes on tree lined streets, extraordinary schools, dining and shopping destinations to suit every taste, fine places of worship, excellent civic organizations, wonderful parks and friendly people at every turn.
"Sweeney Todd School Edition in the James Armstrong Theatre"
The South Bay Conservatory presents Sweeney Todd School Edition in the James Armstrong Theatre, Friday 10/28 at 7:30pm and Saturday, 10/29 at 2pm and 7:30pm.
Tickets are $17/$15.
Call the box office at 310-781-7171.
REDONDO BEACH PIER & INTERNATIONAL BOARDWALK
A favorite location for dining, snacking over the ocean or just walking through the shops and buying souvenires, the Redondo Beach Pier is a popular local and tourist attraction. Sport fishing from the end of the pier is a popular event and there is no fishing license requirement. In the summer there are weekly concerts and special events. Just North of the Pier is the famous International Boardwalk with the Largest Amusement Center on the Coast which includes the Fun Fish Market Restaurant, Fish Markets, shops, eateries and gift shops line the International boardwalk and the area connects the Pier with the harbor.
Coming to Redondo Beach
Pictured is a rendering of what Harbor Drive in Redondo Beach might look like with a new bike path. City Council adopted the South Bay Bicycle Master Plan and the Vitality City Livability Plan last week.
(image courtesy of Healthways Blue Zones Vitality City and Todd Clements)
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
German Epic
The American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood celebrated its 89th birthday Tuesday evening with a rare gift: the Los Angeles premiere of the recently restored version of Ernst Lubitsch's 1922 German epic, "The Loves of Pharaoh." Robert Israel conducted a 16-piece orchestra playing the original score by renowned opera composer Eduard Künneke.
"one of the best stealth-action games ever made"
Hyperbole can be venomous to a review's credibility. Any insightful merit which a video game critique may possess seemingly goes out the window as soon as the reviewer starts dropping bombs like "best game ever" or "literally mindblowing" or "it will birth you anew in its magnificence." Perhaps it is because we've all heard these phrases -- save for that last one -- so many times that they've lost their currency with us.
Rest assured, I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that Batman: Arkham Asylum is unquestionably the best licensed game I've ever played. At the end of the day, however, that's a fairly low hurdle to clear -- it better reflects the game's quality to say it's one of the best stealth-action games ever made.
(Review by Griffin McElroy)
"Where in the World is Matt Lauer?"
NEW YORK - Matt Lauer, above, is adding to his frequent-flier miles.
NBC's "Today" show said Monday it will revive its popular "Where in the World is Matt Lauer?" feature for a week starting Nov. 7. Lauer last hit the road in 2008.
Lauer has shown up in Laos, on Mount Everest, in Peru, on an oil rig, in Australia, in Istanbul and by the pyramids in Egypt, among other locations. Viewers and co-workers aren't clued in until each morning's show.
He's logged 248,166 miles in travel for the feature.
"this honor guard ceremony attracts more than 300, 000 visitors every year"
South Korean honor guard soldiers perform during training for a weekly performance at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 8, 2011. Their performances in the honor guard ceremony attract more than 300, 000 visitors every year.
(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Ready, Aim, Attire: The Silliest Military Uniforms Ever
These South Korean Honor Guards proudly don Crayola Crayon-inspired outfits, complete with trumpets and peacock feathers, at the Honor Guard Ceremony in the War Memorial of Korea. In the summertime, these ceremonies are held every Friday and Saturday
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
"Biophilia"
Björk's seventh album hits stores Tuesday as not just a collection of MP3s or a compact disc. The best way to experience "Biophilia" is to download it as a free iPad, iTouch or iPhone app, then purchase apps for the individual tunes. In this way, you not only get an animated version of evanescent songs with nature-oriented names such as "Solstice" and "Virus" but you also get a game that allows players to manipulate musical elements, a vocal-less score for esoteric karaoke nights, an essay explaining the history and meaning of each tune and, yes, lyrics. These are liner notes to the nth degree.
Leave it to Björk Gudmundsdóttir — punk-rock wild child, early-bird adapter, Icelandic imagineer — to mine the multitudinous possibilities of information-rich gadgetry and reinvent the album as a transformative transmedia experience.
The "X Factor"
The morning after "The X Factor's" American premiere last month, Simon Cowell got a call from his agent at Creative Artists Agency.
The ratings were nowhere near the monster hit Cowell himself had predicted, but the agent believed that if the 12 million or so people who turned up for the premiere kept tuning in, the show would be fine. "But if you go down by 30% tonight, you're dead," Cowell remembered his agent adding ominously.
Nearly a month later, "X Factor" still doesn't look ready to slay Cowell's old employer, "American Idol," in the TV-singing-competition grudge match. That's an important personal and professional point for Cowell, who has a famously bitter rivalry with "Idol" creator Simon Fuller. Cowell left his ultra-lucrative judging perch at that Fox hit to star in and produce the U.S. "Factor" on the same network.
But "Factor" is nevertheless off to a consistent if not spectacular start in a crowded fall marketplace, despite nettlesome interruptions from postseason baseball. A rain delay for a postseason game necessitated a last-minute scheduling switch that ended up bumping Thursday's show to Sunday. Tuesday's airing will be the last before the World Series further disrupts the schedule.
"beyond Earth’s confines"
Las Cruces, N.M., officially joined the list of the nation’s major space centers Monday when a newly completed terminal and hangar facility was turned over to British billionaire Richard Branson and his commercial space tourism venture, Virgin Galactic.
The company aims to launch paying customers beyond Earth’s confines from the new $209-million futuristic-looking facility, named Spaceport America.
"primary habitat on the sea ice"
Warmer temperatures are shrinking the Polar Bears’ primary habitat on the sea ice, making them a focal point in the debate over greenhouse gas emissions. Conservationists argue there is no way to ensure the bears’ survival unless their biggest threat -- global warming -- is attacked, perhaps thousands of miles from where the bears live.
"a chronicler of the ages"
They feature some of the nation’s most famous players, managers, owners, stadiums and even presidents. There are pictures of elephants, bears and tigers, as well as cartoons of babies and spacemen. Some graphics are Baroque, while others scream Art Deco.
The World Series program has been a chronicler of the ages, a mirror not only of baseball’s biggest stage, but also of the game’s link to the world wars, the Great Depression and the optimism of the space age.
Starting Wednesday, fans in St. Louis will get their hands on the latest in a line of programs that date to the first modern World Series, in 1903. They will spend $15 for a glossy volume of about 300 pages that is stuffed with articles about their team’s favorite players and their opponent’s. It will include seven blank scorecards — one for each game — for those who track each inning by hand.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
"The Man Nobody Knew"
William Colby wore many guises: intrepid Cold Warrior, cool technocrat, international man of mystery and, to critics of the deadly covert operations he ran in Vietnam, "war criminal."
The maker of a penetrating new documentary, "The Man Nobody Knew," which Friday opened in Los Angeles, had a less formal epithet for the former CIA head: Dad. But Carl Colby, an Emmy Award-winning director and producer, admits that even his father's wife and children often were at pains to decipher him.
To his family, William Colby was a ghost-like presence, a man who led the exotic, dangerous life of a John le Carré master-spook but projected the image of a mild-mannered bow-tied bureaucrat. For years, his son avoided digging beneath the multiple aliases, unsure of what he'd find.
"I thought, 'Why wouldn't I turn the cameras onto my own father?'" Carl Colby, 60, said by phone last week. "I never did it because whenever I would talk to him about anything meaningful or personal or revealing he would just sort of cloud over and become opaque, and give me that kind of wan smile, and just say, 'That's your department.'"
In "The Man Nobody Knew," Colby lays out his father's remarkable career ascent, detailing his daredevil paratrooping into Nazi-occupied Europe, his stints with the CIA subverting Italy's communist party and his stewardship of the notorious Phoenix Program of enemy "pacification" in Vietnam. Colby remembers protesters comparing his father to Gestapo head Heinrich Himmler.
As the movie spins forward, Colby's evenhanded narration evolves from the wide-eyed effusions of a young boy — "My father was always the coolest character I ever knew" — to more measured assessments:" He didn't have a lot of romantic ideas about spying. He saw it for what it was: dirty business."
The elder Colby ended his public career running the CIA under Presidents Nixon and Ford, amid tense encounters with Congressional committees determined to wrest back the powers they'd lost to the Executive branch. He died in 1996.
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