I think what South Bay Standard Issue is setting out to do is what most of us are always trying to do: carry forward what we love about the places that made us. This is the essence of diaspora, and this is how we orient ourselves amid inevitable change. The people who make this magazine …
Rat Beach Rags To The Rescue Words ByJEFF VINCENT Images ByJESSIE LEE CEDERBLOM If I could hop a time machine and walk into Offbeat Music back in 1997 to find my 15-year-old self flipping through a bin of Pink Floyd bootleg CDs, or possibly nibbling a slice of Cialuzzi’s pizza in the back room behind …
Introducing South Bay Standard Issue It was a simple stoic statement, “Ed, I didn’t get to surf,” during a conversation with my Old Man, Big Ed, a couple of years back. We were cruising the Esplanade in my ‘51 Woody checking the surf during an onshore hot summer day. Although equipped with no Tyler longboards …
The continuing adventures of Mike Watt by Michael Scott Moore Mike Watt, former bassist for The Minutemen, belongs to a newish band called Three-Layer Cake, which is a twenty-first century musical venture in the sense that its members have produced two albums but never sat in a room together. “We’ve never done a gig, and …
by Carrie Dietz Brown Editor’s note: South Bay Standard Issue, the magazine, is borrowed from a piece of Dietz family lexicon, describing a repeating character we all know. The South Bay Standard Issue spent too much time at the beach. Fun after fun, never reapplying sunscreen. A cautionary tale. An inside joke. You know it …
A three decade friendship between a surfer and a photographer in work and words Words ByMIKE BALZER AND MARK McDERMOTT Mike Balzer met Greg Browning in 1988 when he was a 29-year-old up-and-coming photographer and Browning was a 14-year-old surfer whose fast and fearless style was turning heads on local beaches. Body Glove had given …
Of all the corners of the globe where the spirit of the 60s sprouted like a wildflower superbloom, it was in Brazil, against the desert backdrop of military dictatorship and political brutality, that one of the most vibrant and culturally rich musical genres was born from a revolutionary art movement known as Tropicália. Traditional Brazilian …
HAWAIIAN-STYLE BEACH FOOD,LARGE PORTIONS, AND ANGIEROMERO’S WELCOMING SMILEKEEP 54 YEARS OF TRADITIONALIVE AND WELLWords ByALEX KHATCHADOURIAN If you grew up in and around the South Bay, or consider yourself a local, then you surely have a Beach Hut memory. It’s likely some version of how you used to wolf down a loco moco and side …
It was a simple stoic statement, “Ed, I didn’t get to surf,” during a conversation with my Old Man, Big Ed, a couple of years back. We were cruising the Esplanade in my ’51 Woody checking the surf during an onshore hot summer day. Although equipped with no Tyler longboards hanging out of the tailgate …
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Words ByJEFF VINCENT Photos ByJESSIE LEE CEDERBLOM The entrepreneur’s path is scary. Look over one shoulder, and it’s seemingly clear cut: interviews, positions, ladders. Over the other shoulder, and it appears to be smooth sailing: a paycheck that already exists, just waiting to be clocked in for. In reality, there’s no easy way through, and …
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