Redondo Union loses to Inglewood in clash of Bay League boys basketball titans
When Redondo‘s best player was fouled while taking a three pointer with seven seconds left and his team trailing its only Bay League challenger by three points, it was a moment tailor-made for individual and team redemption. Late in the first half Friday night Leland Green had been fouled while taking a 3-pointer, but he […]
“Candide” – tragedy with a smile at Long Beach Opera
Clowning around with “Candide” Composed in the mid-1950s and fussed over during the remaining decades before his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein’s handling of Voltaire’s 18th century novella (“a comic vision of disaster” is how Matthew Hodgart phrased it) is quite a romp, and perhaps more so in David Schweizer’s staging of it for Long […]