Endless Session, Day 313: Go for Gold
Not making it through to finals the previous day at the Santa Cruz Longboard Union Invitational made me the honorary cheerleader for my fellow teammates on the Doheny Longboard Surfing Association. With stacked judging tents and streets lined with sponsors, the event was going off as smooth as could be. Divisions ranged from groms to […]
Pushing Over the Fence: Two Robert Mapplethorpe Exhibitions
Photographer Mapplethorpe is feted at the Getty and LACMA We have celebrated or embraced a number of distinguished photographers in recent years, from Walker Evans and W. Eugene Smith to Sebastião Salgado and Josef Koudelka. But no one seems to have received more attention than Robert Mapplethorpe, who has been given the posthumous honor of […]
Crazy finish ends Redondo’s bid for CIF Division 3 softball title
Redondo’s best softball season in more than two decades finished in dramatic fashion Friday but not the way the Sea Hawks had hoped for. Trailing top-seeded Grand Terrace 5-1 in the seventh inning, Redondo’s rally was unexpectedly cut short giving the Titans a 5-2 victory in the CIF-Southern Section Division 3 championship game at Deanna […]