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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Aug 13, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Daily Breeze
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- Jul 30, 2026
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Theater/Arts: MB artist Mary Wu painted color back into her life. Now she’s putting it in a book (opens the original)
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When I sat down for an interview with South Bay watercolor artist and new author Mary Wu, I expected a straightforward story about a Manhattan Beach mom and her first published book. What I discovered, after a cup of tea and a nearly two-hour chat in her kitchen, was that her book — “DIY Watercolor Cards” — which she flipped through proudly as we talked, is just a part of the story. The real story involves a woman so sick she was bedridden for two years. A soundproofed room that kept things quie
‘Speak Up!’ storytelling and advocacy program gives voice to stories often left untold (opens the original)
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Mychael Castillo has a single food stamp from more than 25 years ago framed on the refrigerator of his Redondo Beach home. “The fact that I can even say I was homeless at one point is still foreign to me,” Castillo, 40, told me when we met for coffee at a café in Riviera Village on Sunday, Aug. 2. He had kind eyes and a shy smile — but his voice was confident. “Those words,” he said, “they still feel fresh in my mouth.” When he was a child, Castillo’s mother struggled to keep a roof over their h
Hermosa Beach’s Kasai Records brings Japan’s listening bar tradition to the South Bay (opens the original)
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Until restaurateur Ryan Stock walked to the turntable and dropped the needle on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” I couldn’t have told you what music had been playing. We’d spent nearly an hour talking inside Kasai Records, his new Japanese-inspired listening bar and restaurant in Hermosa Beach, before it opened for the evening. The dining room sat empty as music drifted through the speakers unnoticed. Then came the soft crackle of vinyl. Tiny pops. A familiar beat. A song I grew up hearing. Suddenl
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