Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 3, No. 45 - November 11, 2021
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An Amazing Day in the South
Bay for the Walk United 5K
This past weekend at Hollywood Park and SoFi Stadium, the United Way of Greater Los Angeles raised awareness and funds for programs that aim to end homelessness and provide housing stability,
quality education, and economic mobility. We are so proud of all the participants and sponsors. Photo courtesy City of Inglewood.
Introducing Matt Knox and His
‘Wonderful Life’
By Duane Plank
Matt Knox is the CEO and partner at the El
Segundo-based Wonderful Collective. He and
his brother/partner Johnnie Munger’s company
design digital products, ranging from apps to
websites to creating successful e-commerce
customer experiences and designing fully
customized business platforms.
In this ever-expanding digital age, you
could say the entrepreneurial Knox is living
a “Wonderful Life,” a life a bit fast-forwarded
from the iconic character George Bailey, magnificently
portrayed by Jimmy Stewart in the
1946 holiday classic film of a similar name.
Ed Jaeger is the founder of RainMaker
Solutions, Inc, an El Segundo-based start-up
company, who has known Knox and his company
for four years. He said that Knox and
his company were recommended to Jaeger by
“a mentor of mine.” Jaeger said that he values
collaborating with Wonderful Collective because
Knox has the talent of “getting situated in the
shoes of the person he is developing with. Matt
dives deep to make the best products in the
business. “Wonderful has helped legitimize
our data and company profile by designing
a world-class website and app,” Jaeger said.
“Matt is down to earth, always truthful, and
be available for his clients. It has been a
wonderful experience to work with Matt and
the Wonderful team.”
And to think that Knox grew up with aspirations
to become a professional ice hockey
player, with the smallish but pugilistic endowed
Calgary Flame winger Theo Fleury as a role
model. Or to become a rock star, as Knox
fronted what he termed a “hair band” decades
ago. He said that he favored the dudes in the
band, Van Halen or Jon Bon Jovi.
Alas, Knox said that the advent of grungetype
music and bands tanked the popularity
traveling team to continue his ice capades.
After finishing his high school years, he
headed to Hollywood with his bandmates to
conquer the LA-area music scene, “become
famous rock stars,” he said, a dream shared
by more than a few musicians. He and his
bandmates briefly attended a musician’s institute,
and commercial dreams of most hair bands.
And he begrudgingly came to the realization
that he was not going to make it to the NHL
as the next Theo Fleury.
So, it was time to recalibrate his career
path, he said.
Raised in Arlington Heights, Illinois, Knox
moved to the Tucson, Arizona, area when he was
in fourth grade. Knox said that once he moved
to Tucson, he thought he was done with hockey,
a sport he had played since the age of three.
“I thought my career was over,” he said, but
he was able to land a spot with a Tucson area See Matt Knox, page 5
attempting to sharpen their chops. At that
time, he said, he chose to play college hockey
at the University of Arizona or continue fronting
the band. “I chose the band,” Knox said,
“literally because it sounded more awesome”
than gliding up and down a sheet of ice in
Arizona and getting into occasional tussles
In Defense of Spontaneity—A Winter
Ramble Through Northern Italy
Article and photos
by Ben & Glinda Shipley
One of Glinda’s favorite song verses
runs, “How can I ever miss you, if you
won’t go away?” In the same philosophical
ballpark, how can anyone experience the
serendipitous heights that travel delivers
without a basic humdrum beat of repetition
in their everyday lives?
And unless we’re ripping off disguises
in telephone booths, everyday life by
definition involves stability, restraint, and
prediction. Assembly lines, factory whistles,
office cubicles, time cards, weekly reports,
coffee and bathroom breaks. Alarm clocks,
school lunches, bus schedules, grocery lines,
chicken pot pie on the dinner table. Not to
mention laundry?
Which brings us to a curious observation—
you’d think that travelers with a
mere few weeks of escape each year would
smash their daily rhythms, throw off the
shackles of planning and organization, and
dance headlong into the paradise of their
dreams. But judging by social media and
a raft of conversations we’ve heard, just
the opposite happens.
What is the precise best time of day to
visit the Louvre? How many minutes will
we need before cutting out to museum #6
on day 4 of our visit? Is it tacky to order
spaghetti bolognaise in a Copenhagen café?
How do we reserve a taxi or a train from the
airport? In Cairo, does the Casbah’s Favorite
Foreign Diner accept lunch reservations
See Travel, page 7