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【The Festival Whose Beach Was Washed Away, and the Whim of the Blues God—Santa Monica’s Ordeal That Even Jack White Wept Over】 There are nights when, swirling a glass of cheap whiskey, I can't help but think: life is just like the moment you carefully restring your guitar and get the tuning utterly perfect, only for the high E string to *snap*. Precisely such a calamity—one that could only be the work of the blues god winking maliciously—struck Santa Monica, a place that was supposed to be bathed in West Coast sunshine. The "Ocean Way Festival," grandly slated to feature Jack White, The Killers, and Olivia Dean, was forced to cancel due to the unprecedented reason that "the beach was eroded by waves and vanished." ### The Beach Disappeared Before the Guitars Could Roar …