Imperfect copy, in a good way [restaurant review]
It takes an engraver a lot of time to create the dies to stamp a single coin. Once that has been examined and found to be good, the second takes almost no time at all, and so on with every one afterward. This is an apt metaphor for restaurant chains: once you have put the […]
Roger Bacon: Hermosa Beach’s ‘Wheels and Deals’ man
Roger Bacon used bathing beauties, car crashes, fist fights, and football to sell cars at the beach. It was a wild ride for a little beach town
Hermosa Beach businessman Roger Bacon seals final deal
Roger Bacon learned the power of showmanship in his teen years at his father’s auto dealership, Les Bacon Ford, where he made a Southern California catchphrase of “Get off your couch and come on down to Les Bacon Ford.” He went on to become of Hermosa’s most influential and controversial businessman.
ShockBoxx Gallery features new paintings by Laura Schuler
A bigger burst of energy Laura Schuler’s “Creative Dissonance” opens Saturday at ShockBoxx in Hermosa Beach It wasn’t the answer I was expecting. “I studied systems engineering,” Laura Schuler replies when asked what she majored in. Schuler, along with Michael Collins, owns ShockBoxx Gallery on Cypress Avenue in the quasi-bohemian district of Hermosa Beach, a […]
“Eat” is a feast for the eyes at ESMoA
A meal for the senses “Eat” is an artistically tasty treat from ESMoA In Albrecht Dürer’s famous 1523 woodcut, “The Last Supper,” the meals haven’t yet arrived and the apostles look a tad bored. Let’s begin by feeding them, and taking a few lines from “The Sentimental Education,” by Gustave Flaubert: “For the first course […]
Understanding Wagering Requirements at No Deposit Casinos
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“Transit” – Moving [MOVIE REVIEW]
Writer/director Christian Petzold is a master of allegory, irony, and complexity. He is also a gifted interpreter of novels, adapting them so that new meaning and depth rises out of the pages. Such was the case of “Phoenix,” his allegorical story set in post-war Germany and based on Le Retour des Cendres (Return from the […]