JON HALL’S 1962 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL Words ByED SOLT Photos ByMARK KAWAKAMI For an artist like San Pedro tattooer Jon Hall, everything he touches becomes an extension of his art—even his daily driver, a 1962 Lincoln Continental. Hall’s rolling radness is his open canvas, as unique as the man himself: a cross-pollination of lifestyle influences distilled …
A MYTHIC MUSIC HALL RESURFACES Words ByGAVIN HEANEY Photos ByJESSIE LEE CEDERBLOM Underneath the Redondo Pier, there is buried treasure. A forgotten music hall that has lain shuttered like One-Eyed Willie’s fantastic pirate ship in “The Goonies,” hidden all this time in plain sight. The club names and the performers on the marquee have turned …
THE SETTING There’s a certain type of country music that I adore as some of 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 same song over and over. The …
THE (UN)AUTHORIZED VHS BEHIND-THE-SCENES OF POINT BREAK. Story ByED SOLT The legendary surf movie Point Break returns to theaters nationwide for special showings August 16 and 19, 35 years after its original release. Starring a young Keanu Reeves and the wavy-headed icon Patrick Swayze, directed by Kathryn Bigelow and produced in part by her then-husband …
HOW EL SEGUNDO BREWING SURVIVED AND THRIVED BY KEEPING IT MIGHTY PURE AND PURELY LOCAL Words ByMARK McDERMOTT Photos ByJESSIE LEE CEDERBLOM Rob Croxall doesn’t mind going the opposite direction. Maybe that’s because all the roads he has chosen lead back home to El Segundo, where contrariness is baked into the local way of being. …
Words ByALEX KHATCHADOURIAN Photos ByKENNY INGLE Scott Davenport still remembers getting a call from his stepfather in 2013. A call that abruptly changed his life. “Bobby called me and said, ‘I have to teach you how to run the bar.’ My exact words to him, no lie, were, ‘I don’t want that little fucking dump,’” …
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ARTIST GREG SIMKINS IS AN INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED MAKER OF WORLDS. BUT HIS WORK IS DRAWN FROM THE FANTASTICAL REALMS OF THE SOUTH BAY Words ByRACHEL REEVES Photos ByBRENT BROZA Greg Simkins, the artist internationally known as CRAOLA, lives two blocks from the house he grew up in. Down the street are his middle school, his …
NEAL VON FLUE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PART OF THE EL SEGUNDO ART WALK. NOW HE’S HELPING SHAPE IT Words ByMARK McDERMOTT There is a guy in El Segundo who builds motorcycles in his warehouse lair in Smoky Hollow, reinventing Harleys and other vintage bikes. He’s a fourth-generation local and looks like it. There is …
Old Town Music Hall’s crown jewel, the Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ. Words ByJEFF VINCENT Images ByJESSIE LEE CEDERBLOM There’s a hidden gem in the South Bay, glowing in plain sight. Those who know: have been. But too often, even just a block away at El Segundo Brewing Company on any given weekend, someone’s sipping …
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MEET THE TINY PAWS TORRANCE ORGANIZATION Words ByED SOLT Some people talk about making a difference. These women just started doing it. The Tiny Paws Torrance Organization was founded in 2022 by Jessica Rivello and Viviana Garcia, a couple of animal lovers who met working at Plaza de Loma Animal Hospital in Torrance. What began …