A three decade friendship between a surfer and a photographer in work and words Words by Mike 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 …
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 …
Words ByJEFF VINCENTAll 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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TYLER HATZIKIAN JOINS THE CONSTELLATION OF SOUTH BAY LEGENDS words By Ed Solt In 1993, a Loyola Marymount film student named Jason Baffa took advantage of a South Bay rarity, afternoon offshore winds. North across the bay, Malibu was on fire. The fall sky was surreal, dirty red and hazy, but the waves were glassy …