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Benjamin Marcus

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Aug 30, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · Benjamin Marcus

    Malibu Seen: The surf is nuking! — The Malibu Times (opens the original)

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    Steve Hawk was editor of SURFER Magazine for most of the time I worked there, and we worked well together. Everyone needs an editor, and Hawk was a good one. In August, Hawk and his entourage passed through Santa Cruz for a talk and book signing about his nuclear novel "Nearshore." A good, but scary, read about right-wing tech nerd plotters and nuclear terrorism. stevehawkauthor.com Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.... “Nearshore” is about Mavericks, nuclear weapons, Tunitas Cre

  2. Article · Aug 23, 2026 · Benjamin Marcus

    Malibu Seen: Swimming fools and solar farms — The Malibu Times (opens the original)

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    A mishmosh of show business and Malibu business, This mishmosh of Malibu happenings past, present and a possible future starts with the end bit of Part Two of the review of SURFILMUSIC (Feat. Jack Johnson) that got left on the cutting room floor. From show business to Malibu business: Around Malibu, opinions are like Teslas — everybody’s got one. The rest of this is ruminations on the good, the bad, and the ugly of beach erosion, groins, jetties, speed cameras, and what to do with all those empt

  3. Article · Aug 2, 2026 · Benjamin Marcus

    Malibu Seen: Ten Years Gone: A review of Sir Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' (opens the original)

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    Some movies are meant to be seen in theaters, on the big screen. I wish I had seen “Sinners” on a big screen. Autumn Durald Arkapaw won an Academy Award for Cinematography because she went BIG with lavish shots of the Mississippi delta. I was in Malibu when "Sinners" came out, and the only way I was gonna see it big was to break/talk my way into someone's mansion and plug the screener into their home theater. I watched “Sinners” three times on a big screen TV, but it wasn’t big enough. The last

  4. Article · Jul 20, 2026 · Benjamin Marcus

    Malibu Seen: Who is Mr. Big? Part one (opens the original)

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    Tore myself away from Santa Cruz, which was very much enjoying that semi-world-record southern hemisphere swell of mid June. Drove down the coast on Juneteenth and got stuck in a 40-minute traffic jam at Bixby Creek Bridge, which was no bueno. You don't go to Big Sur to sit in traffic. Came back to Malibu to write a review of Wally's and also to cross the Orange Curtain and attend the hard hat/soft opening of the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center. This is a big deal. And here is that story in

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