Live at the Lounge: A shot of Brahms with a Schoenfield chaser
Comedy and Magic Club owner Mike Lacey took an unorthodox tact Saturday night to booking Live at the Lounge, his 90-seat music club next door to his comedy club. He scheduled five sets of classical music.
The wedding song, aboard Southwest Flight 3267
[Editor’s note: The following is longtime South Bay musician Howard Payne’s account of how he came to sing a wedding song to a newly engaged couple on Southwest Flight 3267.] I was flying home to LA after performing in Kansas City, when a little while after take off the flight attendant asked Ryan and Ashley […]
From the front
Joshua Dysart trudged war-torn Uganda to bring its cries to our comic book stores
Split decision in stratospheric lawsuit
A 12-year lawsuit that could bankrupt the City of Hermosa Beach has been sent back to square one by an appeals court ruling, in what amounts to a split decision for the city.
The $500 million breach-of-contract lawsuit by Macpherson Oil Company had been on hold while a state appeals court considered a long-shot request by city officials to dismiss it altogether.
Courts had previously ruled that the city was guilty of breaching Macpherson’s oil drilling contract, and high stakes were riding on the city’s request: if it was granted, Macpherson’s lawsuit would simply go away…
Writer helps with weight loss
After Shannon Hammer lost 110 pounds – and continued to keep that weight off – she found that if she wanted the ideal companion book for her ongoing adventure, she would have to write it herself. The result is The Positive Portions Food & Fitness Journal, which can be used as a gentle, consistent helper […]
Arrest costs Hermosa Beach $175,000
The city of Hermosa Beach has agreed to pay $175,000 to a Los Angeles Police Department sergeant who claimed he was battered and falsely arrested after he called Hermosa police “the Gestapo” outside a private party in 2003. The sergeant, Mark Pompano, then 39, was off duty at the time. According to a lawsuit filed […]
Quirky 3-D art displayed
by Stacey A. Morse Patrons are rarely invited to touch works of art, but an exception is made at the “Touchable Art – Untouchable Artist” installation now up at Java Man coffeehouse. A meet-the-artist will be Sunday morning, Feb. 1, and the exhibit will close Saturday, Feb. 27. Jon LaMar’s touchable art began with mailboxes […]
About Town
Police Memorial A memorial for Hermosa Beach Police Lt. Tim Turek, a Medal of Valor honoree who passed away from a rare cancer of the bone marrow two months ago, will be 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24 in the City Council chambers, Valley Drive and Pier Avenue. Turek was decorated along with officers Dana Reinhardt […]
The return of the White Buffalo
Story originally published Dec. 10 2009 Word of the White Buffalo has spread. He is not a mythical beast, but ambles just the same. He’s a large white gentleman with a big voice and a throaty yowl that takes a listener back a few centuries, perhaps to a more mythical time – when men sang […]