by Garth Meyer For untold generations, man has looked up at the moon in wonder. Soon man may look up and wonder, “How is the economy up there?” Northrop Grumman, in a new endeavor with DARPA (U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is studying how to build a railroad on the moon. The train would haul lunar soil and extracted metals, even ice for drinking water, or to separate its hydrogen to power rockets to Mars. “Supporting mining on the…
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MBCC Theater’s musical mayhem is a treat
Four weddings – and no funeral “The Drowsy Chaperone” is wide awake in Manhattan Beach by Bondo Wyszpolski Sometimes I think the Manhattan Beach Community Church Theater is about to bite off more than it can chew, but then I catch one of their shows and I’m often highly impressed. I guess I shouldn’t be,…
“Io Capitano” – Captain of all [MOVIES]
“Io Capitano,” nominated for this year’s Academy Award for Best International Film from Italy, is a complicated web and complex film. Written and directed by Matteo Garrone, “Io Capitano” is the story of two teenage boys from Dakar, Senegal with stars in their eyes and Europe as a goal. It’s not so much the endless…
New Chinese in Redondo, brekkie burritos in Hermosa, lots of wine events, and other dining news
New Guys In Town: The South Bay has a new Chinese restaurant, and their menu goes well beyond the Americanized fare that is common in our area. As the name Dumpling Mix suggests, housemade noodles, wontons, and dumplings are a specialty, but they offer regional items from Taiwan, Sichuan, and Shanghai as well. The interior…
Temple of beef
People who enjoy lively, loud restaurants sometimes say quiet restaurants are like dining in a library. To some people, that would not sound like a bad thing. We’ve found books we loved, and sometimes people we loved too, amid the shelves of arcane knowledge, witty or serious stories, and the volume in the nonfiction section…
