All Ball Sports: Klineman, Ross on way to Tokyo Olympics, Mira Costa Mustangs beat Santa Monica
By Paul Teetor There’s nothing like blowing a 15-point lead to bring out the sunny side of Mira Costa’s hard-driving boys basketball Coach Neal Perlmutter. “It was nice to see us lose a lead and then get it back and regain our composure,” Perlmutter said without a hint of sarcasm, moments after his team hung […]
“Benny Loves You” – Just not you [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Benny Loves You” is from the massively disturbed brain of Karl Holt, who wrote, directed, edited, and acted as co-cinematographer on this incredibly inventive, horribly gory, and massively funny take on slasher films. Opening on a spoiled little girl who rejects her teddy bear for her bright new shiny Barbie-type doll, she is in for […]
Guitars and the crazy people who love them – a new series about collecting
By Jefferson Graham You can never have enough guitars. Even in a home with ten of them hanging on the walls, resting on couches, standing erect on the ground in guitar holders, I feel I’ve only just scratched the surface. My friend Scott Kelby has 40 of them. But that’s nothing. The great guitarist Billy […]
“Emily at the Edge of Chaos” – Peering over the precipice [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Emily at the Edge of Chaos” is the personal journey of the brilliant mind of Emily Levine. First conceived as a one-woman play for the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York in 2009, Levine continued to hone and sharpen her theme, never straying far from her initial thesis–life is a never-ending paradigm shift. What brought […]