“Supremacy”- A game of Chess Played Out in Black and White [MOVIE REVIEW]

Deon Taylor’s surprisingly resonant and deceptively deep film Supremacy comes at you with a hammer and ends up filleting you with a scalpel. Taylor, working with Eric J. Adams’ excellent  script, comes out of left field, or more precisely, the low budget horror genre,  to tell the allegedly true tale of Garrett Tully (a cursory […]

Mid-century building gets spruced up

The building at 1040 Manhattan Beach Blvd. today. Photo by Caroline Anderson

The building at 1040 Manhattan Beach Blvd. has stood in the same spot less than a block west of Sepulveda since 1953. But when its new owner, Nina Ritter, told people about it, they didn’t know what she was talking about.

Beach Cities Sports: Baseball, running, volleyball and more

Baseball: The Mira Costa Baseball Program will be holding the Mustang’s Ski Week Baseball Camp from Tuesday, Feb. 17 to Thursday, Feb. 19. Open to players ages 6-13, the camp is run by Mira Costa coaches and players and runs from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. each day. Campers receive a shirt and small snack […]

SB Boardriders Event #1 presented by Jack’s Surfboards Recap

“It became an endurance contest,” said third place legend division finisher Mike Purpus, “The riptide was like inside pipeline when you are scratching to get to the inside while stuck in the impact zone. The current was like paddling against the Colorado River, and the sets were like surfing a stormy day at 2nd Reef Pipeline.”