A MYTHIC MUSIC HALLRESURFACES Words ByGAVIN HEANEY Photos by Jessie Lee Cederblom Underneath the Redondo Pier, there is buriedtreasure. A forgotten music hall that has laidshuttered like One-Eyed Willie’s fantasticpirate ship in “The Goonies”, hidden all this time inplain sight. The club names and the performers on themarquee have turned with the tides for nearly …
THE SETTINGThere’s a certain type of country music that I adore as someof the most special tunes ever made. I can’t say that it sounds like modern country, or any kind of that redundant, candy-ass country pop that, to my ear, says: insert lyrics here, to The Dirty Hippie by Jessie Lee Cederblom the same …
THE (UN)AUTHORIZED VHSBEHIND-THE-SCENES OF POINT BREAK. Story ByED SOLT The legendary surf movie Point Break returns totheaters nationwide for special showings August16 and 19, 35 years after its original release.Starring a young Keanu Reeves and the wavy-headedicon Patrick Swayze, directed by Kathryn Bigelow andproduced in part by her then-husband James Cameron,Point Break would become a …
HOW EL SEGUNDO BREWING SURVIVED AND THRIVED BYKEEPING IT MIGHTY PURE AND PURELY LOCAL Words ByMARK McDERMOTT Photos ByJESSIE LEE CEDERBLOM Rob Croxall doesn’t mind going the oppositedirection. Maybe that’s because all the roadshe has chosen lead back home to El Segundo,where contrariness is baked into the local way of being.And so when Croxall founded …
Words ByALEX KHATCHADOURIAN Photos ByKENNY INGLE Scott Davenport still remembers getting acall from his stepfather in 2013. A call thatabruptly changed his life.“Bobby called me and said, ‘I have to teach youhow to run the bar.’ My exact words to him, no lie,were, ‘I don’t want that little fucking dump,’ recallsDavenport. That “little fucking dump” …
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ARTIST GREG SIMKINS IS AN INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNEDMAKER OF WORLDS. BUT HIS WORK IS DRAWN FROM THETHE FANTASTICAL REALMS OF THE SOUTH BAY Words ByRACHEL REEVESPhotos ByBRENT BROZA Greg Simkins, the artist internationally known asCRAOLA, lives two blocks from the house he grewup in. Down the street are his middle school, his highschool, and the concrete …
NEAL VON FLUE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PART OF THE ELSEGUNDO ART WALK. NOW HE’S HELPING SHAPE IT Words ByMARK McDERMOTT There is a guy in El Segundo who buildsmotorcycles in his warehouse lair in SmokyHollow, reinventing Harleys and other vintagebikes. He’s a fourth generation local and looks like it.There is also a guy in …
Old Town Music Hall’s crown jewel, the Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ. Words ByJEFF VINCENT Images by Jessie Lee Cederblom There’s a hidden gem in the South Bay, glowingin plain sight. Those who know: have been. Buttoo often, even just a block away at El SegundoBrewing Company on any given weekend, someone’ssipping a Standard Crude …
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MEET THE THE TINY PAWSTORRANCE ORGANIZATION Words ByED SOLT Some people talk about making a difference. Thesewomen just started doing it.The Tiny Paws Torrance Organization was foundedin 2022 by Jessica Rivello and Viviana Garcia, acouple of animal lovers who met working at Plaza deLoma Animal Hospital in Torrance. What began asan informal response to the …
I think what South Bay Standard Issue is setting out to do is what most of us are always trying to do: carryforward what we love about the places that made us. This is the essence of diaspora, and this is how we orientourselves amid inevitable change.The people who make this magazine were made, tovarying …