March 24, 2010

Education Foundation rallies for schools

The Redondo Beach Education Foundation hopes to double its contribution this year and give $200,000 towards elementary music and arts, teacher grants, and various other educational programs. But thus far only four percent of parents in the district have joined.

Artist, activist Gordon Evans remembered for his passions


For over 50 years Gordon Evans sculpted and painted in the studio behind the Valley Park Drive home that he and his wife purchased shortly after World War II. Evans died Saturday, March 20, following a short illness. He was 83.

Barfly: ECC’s Rent deserves an audience

Last Chance: Jonathan Larson’s Tony and Pulitzer prize winning musical, “Rent,” closes this weekend at El Camino College, so you have three chances left to see it: Friday, March 26, Saturday, March 27 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 28 at 3 p.m. I highly recommend you do.

South Bronx to South Bay: Indefensible to indepensable


By Roger Repohl
Last Sunday’s rush to passage of the health-care reform bill by the House of Representatives was an example of high drama you never thought happened in a place better known for droning diatribes made to an empty chamber.

March 25, 2010

Help
Dear ER:
I found out Friday about one of our school’s teachers getting laid off because he has not been here as long as the other teachers (“Teacher gets NASA award and pink slip,” ER Mar. 18, 2010). He is the first person who has made me want to come to school.

Benoit, Okura hook up at Norris

Prior to welcoming violinist and er-hu player Meg Okura to the Harlyne J. Norris Pavilion stage in Palos Verdes on

Pennywise to take on the world with new lead singer

I’d just sat down with guitarist Fletcher Dragge and singer Zoli Teglas. Addressing the former but indicating the later, I put forth the question that Pennywise fans could now ask after several months of wondering who would replace the band’s original member and lead vocalist Jim Lindberg. Why him?

New comic!


Behold, the Hermosa Beach you dream at night!

Local trio freed entombed Haitians

Three search and rescue workers from Hermosa had grown accustomed to performing dangerous operations under harrowing conditions. But they found

In memoriam

Hermosa students under the direction of the Builders Club have collected more than 8,000 buttons to be embedded in and