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San Diego: Mingei Museum's surfboard design exhibition is one fun ride
If you haven't seen "Surf Craft" at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, go now. The compelling exhibition about American makers and shapers of all kinds of wave-riding boards ends Sunday. Surf historian Richard Kenvin has assembled an amazing collection of boards from the early 20th century to the present. Even if you don't know anything about surfboards, these marvels of wood, fiberglass and foam stand on their own as works of art. "Other surfing [exhibitions] are more based on nostalgia," says Kenvin, who surfs and has been researching surfboards for a dozen years. "This is more the craft story." Indeed rarely have the 60 to 80 pieces...
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San Diego: Mingei Museum's surfboard design exhibition is one fun ride
If you haven't seen "Surf Craft" at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, go now. The compelling exhibition about American makers and shapers of all kinds of wave-riding boards ends Sunday.
Surf historian Richard Kenvin has assembled an...
Agreement reached in Malibu beach access dispute
In a victory for public beach access, the owner of Paradise Cove in Malibu has agreed to stop charging a $20 walk-in fee, to remove all signs banning surfing and to unlock a gate to the pier, the California Coastal Commission and the State Lands...
Tortured by music: The year's most insidious, relentless earworms
Once they nestled into the mind, 2014's most enduring earworms never let up. Seeming to gain joy and momentum with each melodic loop, the stickiest brain music soundtracked our inner dialogue for weeks on end. These split-second loops — or cleverly worded...
Surfers regain access to Malibu's Paradise Cove; pier to be unlocked
In a victory for public access, the owner of Paradise Cove in Malibu has agreed to stop charging a $20 walk-in fee, remove all signs banning surfing and unlock a gate to the beach's pier, the California Coastal Commission and the State Lands Commission...
Fiji has tropical charms for nearly any traveler's budget
When people picture crystal-blue waters, talcum-like beaches, over-the-water huts, bluebird-colored skies and days spent in lounging in hammocks or snorkeling, they typically think of Bora Bora in French Polynesia. What many don't know is that Fiji is...
Paradise Cove gets Coastal Commission warning over beach access
Opening a new front in the battle over Malibu beach access, California regulators have sent warning letters to the operator of tony Paradise Cove after complaints from surfers about harassment as well as exorbitant walk-in and parking fees.
Documents...
'Any Sunday' sequel is the Brown family's latest in a long, cool ride
To make his Oscar-nominated 1971 motorcycle documentary, "On Any Sunday," Bruce Brown went to the most famous Hollywood motorcyclist of the era, Steve McQueen.
Brown wanted the King of Cool to be in his film. More important, he needed the actor...
California: Surfboards turned into works of art in Morro Bay
More than 20 surfboards-turned-artworks are on display around Morro Bay, Calif., in the town's first such public art on display through November. The Surfboard Art Festival features boards that have been painted to convey familiar scenes in the Central...
Datebook: Surfboards and noise rock for the holiday weekend
A show that’s all about surf, a noise rock band downtown and an artist’s view of L.A. as told by installation. The Thanksgiving holiday weekend is quiet, but there are still things to do. Here’s what we have in the Datebook:
“Jeff Ho: The Board” at C....
Grammy Awards: Beyoncé, Coldplay and Sam Smith should get nods
A year that gave us much exuberant pop music about being happy, shaking it off, keeping it fancy and/or letting go of problems — "the past is in the past," sings Idina Menzel in "Let It Go" — had little need for the starker realities...
Football: Get ready for the battle of Woodland Hills
Break out the surfboards. It's the Red Zone vs. The M.E.S.S.
It's the battle for supremacy in Woodland Hills on Friday, when Taft hosts El Camino Real in a West Valley League football game.
Taft (4-3, 2-0) has won three consecutive games....
All the ways Gisele Bundchen's Chanel No. 5 ad confused us
Gisele Bundchen's Chanel No. 5 ad dropped on Wednesday, and as beautiful as it is, it raises almost as many questions as Brad Pitt's puzzling effort did in October 2012.
The world's highest-paid supermodel, who led the charge during the French fashion...
Great white shark attacks surfer; 3 Central Calif. beaches closed
Vandenberg Air Force officials have closed three beaches after a surfer was attacked by a great white shark Thursday evening.
The surfer suffered non-life threatening injuries to his knee, as well as cuts to other parts of his body, in the attack,...
An 'Endless Summer' for artist John Van Hamersveld
John Van Hamersveld designed the famous album jacket for the Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main St." Forty-two years later, he's embedded on Main Street.
Main Street in Huntington Beach, that is.
Last month, the Southern California graphic...
Surfer Bethany Hamilton aims to motivate girls with 'Body and Soul'
Talk about a commitment to her sport: Bethany Hamilton lost her entire left arm to a shark attack while surfing — and within a month was back on her board riding the waves. She was 13.
At 24, Hamilton still competitively surfs the seas, and, like every...
Football: No surfboards or boogie boards for St. John Bosco trip
The word is when St. John Bosco players leave for Hawaii on Monday, they better not bring surfboards or boogie boards. It's a buisness trip, with the Braves facing Honolulu St. Louis in their season opener next Friday night.
They'll be practicing in...
Jay Adams dies at 53; legendary skateboarder
Legendary skateboarder Jay Adams, who was one of the edgy "Z-Boys" of the sport featured in the widely heralded 2001 documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys" and portrayed in the 2005 film "Lords of Dogtown," died Friday while on...
Filipe Toledo's aerial skills give him big win at U.S. Open of Surfing
It took somebody special to knock Huntington Beach native Brett Simpson out of his hometown competition.
Brazil's Filipe Toledo, one of the best aerial surfers in the world, made that clear by dominating the final for his first U.S. Open of Surfing title...
Local surfer with Alzheimer's found; had been missing
A well-known local surfer who has Alzheimer's disease went missing this week, but his family reported Friday evening that he had been found.
Ronald Jay, 62, was last seen at his home in Culver City about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, where he...
While traveling to Bali in 2011, I re-connected with my old friend, Chris Del Moro. Chris is a traveler, an artist, an environmentalist and a great surfer. During that trip, we began chatting about film ideas and I expressed my interest in working with him.
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