Past and present faculty, staff and students joined producers, actors and crew at Marymount California University here on the hill last month to celebrate the achievement of one of their own, filmmaker and film professor Bruce Schwartz who chose the school’s “Commons” auditorium to premiere his 17th movie Justice for Lizzie last month.
Read MoreKnowing what to plant when is confusing. Does parsley like hot or cold weather? what can I plant on a 100°F September day (not much)? Why does this lettuce seed pack tell me I can grow this in summer but you say I can’t? I work with kids who want to plant watermelons despite what time of the year it is.
Read MoreCelebrate Extraordinary, a fundraiser presented by The Circle of Palos Verdes Art Center/Beverly G. Alpay Center for Art Education, will offer a delightful evening for supporters, art aficionados and the community to enjoy the resurgence of art that is bubbling up, with art being recognized as a "second responder" in recovering from the pandemic.
Read MoreI’ve always loved mythological creatures and magical worlds. I also love hidden messages tucked into art that empower the viewer to believe in themselves. That’s why I write social-emotional learning books about whimsical characters like self-doubting unicorns, adventurous gnomes, helpful fairies, misunderstood monsters, and dancing dragons that inspire empathy and exploration.
Read MoreVincent Thomas is my favorite place to be at night. It's quiet and its void of people. The sounds of the harbor, and the glow of the lights coming from the city are beautiful. Sometimes fish are jumping in the inlet where cruise ships sometimes dock
Read MoreRecently I watched the amusing and evocative film (via Moviestvnetwork on Cox cable)
The Trouble With Angels (1966) starring ever elegant Rosalind Russell and ever delightful Haley Mills. Having just presented The Sound Of Music, with main character Maria the novitiate, at the 19th annual
Read MoreStoryline: At Caltech a theoretical cosmologist from U. Penn. describes a new form of matter that he has invented. Impossible! Exclaims a Nobel Prize winner in physics. An experimental scientist announces the creation of this “impossible” material, but is not believed, and nearly loses his research position. This stranger-than-fiction tale takes us to the desolate tundra in Far Eastern Russia and to a meteorite created at the birth of the Solar System.
Read MoreSteve Jobs– Founder of Apple Computers and Pixar– said, “At 17, I read; ‘If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.’ Since then, I’ve looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself; ‘If today is my last day, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’”
Read MoreThe lavender blooms of the Jacaranda trees are a sure sign that Spring as arrived. Jacarandas can grow upwards of 60 ft. high with a canopy that spreads equal to its height. The flowers grow in groups known as panicles. The blooms can remain for as long as two months before giving way to woody seed pods about two inches in diameter that contain several winged seeds.
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Read MoreMARK YOUR CALENDAR! A FUN, FREE & FANTASTIC LECTURE ON APRIL 8, 2022 AT 4PM AT HESSE COMMUNITY PARK. HEAR BRIDGET DUFFY FROM DUFFY ARTS TALK ABOUT HER ART CAREER IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY.
Read MoreWhen we catch first sight of the tulip blooms, we can’t help but call to mind those iconic images of the Netherlands: windmills surrounded by the blooming tulips, the canals in the City of Amsterdam, and of course, a pair of wooden shoes. But these members of the lily family took over 700 years to travel from their rustic beginnings to the country they are most closely identified.
Read MoreEarly Spring is such a delightful time to enjoy our coastline and Point Vicente is the perfect place to start. You never know when you might see a whale and it’s always fun to spend a few minutes with the members of the Cetacean society and discover the whale count for the current migration,
Read More2022 Wisteria Garden Party
Read MoreI often ask myself the same question. Why am I torturing myself when the 5:40 a.m. alarm goes off? And I am sure Kenny Atkins asks himself the same question as I drop he and the dory off at the Cabrillo Beach boat launch ramp.
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Earth Day Celebration at the White Point Nature Preserve with the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy Apr 23, 9 am - 12 pm. - Celebrate Earth Day volunteering outdoors to help care for a native plant demonstration garden and habitat for local wildlife. Fun for the whole family. White Point Nature Preserve, 1600 Paseo del Mar, San Pedro, CA 90732. Sign up at pvplc.volunteerhub.com
Steven Pinker’s paean to the Enlightenment has aroused impassioned commentary from all sides of the intellectual world. Enlightenment Now is Pinker’s full- throated defense of Western modernity, the beneficiary of the Enlightenment ideals of reason, science, humanism and progress.
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