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Entering baseball season, Kolby Allard is at the top of his game
Kolby Allard exudes San Clemente cool. You detect it in his vocabulary by losing count how many times he says "awesome" in a five-minute conversation. You see it in the way he holds his surfboard leaving his garage. You feel it by how friendly his dog, Splitter, greets strangers. Most of all, his coolness screams out when he's on a pitching mound hurling 95-mph fastballs left-handed wearing his San Clemente High baseball hat. At 17, Allard enters the 2015 season as Southern California's top pro prospect. There has been so much fuss lately that his mother, Kristi, asks, "Is that really Kolby?" He's still the fun-loving, loyal neighborhood kid who...
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Entering baseball season, Kolby Allard is at the top of his game
Kolby Allard exudes San Clemente cool. You detect it in his vocabulary by losing count how many times he says "awesome" in a five-minute conversation. You see it in the way he holds his surfboard leaving his garage. You feel it by how friendly...
Why artist Fred Tomaselli talks back to the New York Times
In March of 2005, artist Fred Tomaselli picked up his morning copy of the New York Times and found a blaring headline about ex-WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers being convicted of an $11-billion fraud. The story was sensational — about...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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.
Hobie Alter dies at 80; shaped Southern California surf culture
When he was a young man, Hobie Alter had a clear vision of his future: He didn't want a job that would require hard-soled shoes, and he didn't want to work east of Pacific Coast Highway.
He succeeded.
The son of a second-generation orange grower,...
UC Santa Barbara students paddle out to honor Isla Vista victims
Hundreds of UC Santa Barbara students took to the ocean to honor six of their own who were killed last week during Elliot Rodger's deadly rampage through the seaside college town of Isla Vista.
With their surfboards, group floatation devices and handfuls...
Ricky Grigg, oceanographer and top-ranked big-wave surfer, dies at 77
It was just after a January storm in 1953, and the waves were epic.
With other adrenaline-addled young surfers, 16-year-old Ricky Grigg caravaned up the coast from Santa Monica to Rincon, just beyond Ventura. Racing with his board into the roar of...
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...
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