THE FIN CROWD

Finding Dory opens Friday, and in a perhaps unfortunate bit of timing Saturday, June 18 is National Sushi Day. In honor of the latter occasion, Your Humble Narrator devoted the "Four Corners" column in this month's edition of Phoenix Magazine...

…to four Valley sushi joints.

In honor of both occasions…

Monster-of-the-Week: …the nod this week goes to the huge primordial fish…

…that comes up from the depths in 1979’s Up From the Depths. My pal, master thespian James Ward, then a teenager in The Philippines—where the film was actually shot, though it was set in Hawaii—can be glimpsed as a beach extra in this laugh-riot Jaws rip-off.