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...Callon, welcome back to where you always knew you belonged. A Southern California record producer, Callon, 43, grew up surfing on the beaches around Los Angeles. But then life got complicated -- a job, marriage, children -- and Callon gradually let the waves roll by without him. Recently, however, he took up the sport again; on weekends, when he is not riding the Pacific, he may be found in a Hermosa Beach surf shop, buying gear for his three children. Says Callon: "If a week goes by and I don't surf, I feel like I'm missing something...
Callon is not alone. Surfing, the quintessential California pastime, which seemed to crest two decades ago, has attracted beaches full of new (and once lapsed) fans this summer. Stats are elusive, since only the diehard board cowboys join local clubs. But listen to beach-shop owners, and there is no doubt that surf's up as never before. "We're seeing a whole new crowd," says Gary Cimochowski, owner of the Brave New World, a supply store in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. "Young guys are taking up the sport, and older guys are coming back...
Club Paradise, which stars the normally hilarious Robin Williams, may be one of the summer's worsts. Clearly designed to make a few bucks off of those whose heads are affected by the solar rays and want to watch a fantasy of surf, sex and sun but as a B-Movie fantasy this film doesn't even work. Instead what we get is a slightly moralizing, very patronizing and almost racist story about life among the island resort...
...crush is growing increasingly intense as Americans drop plans to go to Europe. At the Fontainebleau Hilton Resort in Miami Beach last week, Kenji Seki, a Los Angeles restaurant manager, was enjoying the sun and surf. Three weeks ago, he canceled a trip to Monte Carlo because he was wary of traveling abroad. When a group of women from Pasadena, Calif., arrived at the Santa Fe Opera Theater last week, a member of the group explained that "we're supposed to be in Madrid, but we came here instead...
...past decade. While some of these, like the $3.4 billion international airport at the capital city of Riyadh, are attractive and useful, others seem destined for white elephanthood. One 1,800-acre complex dubbed the "diplomatic quarter" features a lavish sports club complete with a wave machine that creates surf in a vast swimming pool. Though the club is intended to house 7,000 diplomats and their families, skeptics question whether it will attract a third that number...