Former Pennywise vocalist Jim Lindberg is now surfing The Black Pacific
“As soon as I made the decision to leave Pennywise I really didn’t look back,” says Jim Lindberg, who parted ways last summer – after 20 years and nine albums – with the most famous local band since Black Flag. The reason? Creative differences and shifting priorities. Only the band itself knows the full extent […]
Songbird in flight
Young songwriter Nicole Lexi Davis launches her career It began Sodium Free on the street. Three years ago, Nicole Lexi Davis and her little brother, Randall, took a couple of guitars and headed for The Strand in Hermosa Beach. They had decided, impromptu, to become a band. They called themselves Sodium Free and wore buttons […]
Harbor Lights: Wii Olympians to compete in RB Marina
If you don’t have kids, grandkids, neighbor kids or you aren’t a kid yourself, “Wii” may sound like an unfinished word from some foreign language. Everyone else knows it’s the name of an extremely popular and somewhat revolutionary video gaming system. About 200 of the best players in the U. S. will gather in the […]
Harbor Enterprise Business Plan gets mixed reviews
The City Council Tuesday night unanimously approved the adoption of a business plan for the harbor area. But it did so over the objections of two city commissions and some harbor area businesses.
Manhattan Beach Unified School District to receive federal stimulus dollars
by Andrea Ruse The Manhattan Beach Unified School District may receive up to $1.6 million after President Barack Obama earlier this month signed into legislation a bill promising $10 billion in federal stimulus funds toward education. The measure is aimed at keeping more than 160,000 teaching jobs nationwide. “It was a surprise when I read […]
Redondo Beach Unified School District hopes for stimulus fund boost
The $10 billion infusion of federal funds intended to save 160,000 teachers’ jobs across the nation could allow the Redondo Beach Unified School District to alter plans to increase class sizes by enabling the district to hire more teachers. But as schools prepare to begin classes this Tuesday, much remains uncertain. The district must decide […]
Catalytic converters targeted in thefts
Police are searching for information that will help apprehend whoever has perpetrated the overnight thefts of 29 catalytic convertors from Toyota trucks that have occurred in the last month. The thefts began on July 26 and have focused entirely on Toyota Tacoma and 4Runner trucks. According to police reports, the thefts began in North Redondo […]
Manhattan Beach resident given citation for rollerblading
Diann Keller went rollerblading on the city’s bike path last Saturday, the same as she has for the last six years. Only it was the first time she got ticketed by the city for just rolling along. As Keller cruised down the path past 27th Street, she said she noticed two officers standing off to […]
Harbor plan gets mixed reviews
The City Council Tuesday night unanimously approved the adoption of a business plan for the harbor area. But it did so over the objections of two city commissions and some harbor area businesses. Mayor Mike Gin stressed that the Harbor Enterprise Business Plan – intended to help spur revitalization in the economically struggling area – […]
Ottos closing Hillside Pharmacy after five decades in Manhattan Beach
Hillside Pharmacy, the city’s oldest pharmacy, will close on Monday, after 55 years. Owner Ron Otto is selling his patient list to the new Walgreens on Sepulveda Boulevard near Marine Avenue in Manhattan Beach, where he and his staff will begin working. His wife and co-owner Lyndall will continue operating the current location, at Artesia […]
Search still on for Sepulveda window shooter
Police are searching for the person(s) responsible for shooting and shattering the windows of five Manhattan Beach businesses on Sepulveda Boulevard, over the course of two days last week. “We can’t tell if they’re related, but because of their proximity, it appears they are,” said MBPD Lt. Nan Rados. “The way the windows shattered was […]
Jerry Brown fundraiser hosted by Tony Capozzola at the Red Onion in Palos Verdes.
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Mining for gold
Hermosan Holly Miagawa returns from the National Kidney Foundation’s U.S. Transplant Games in Madison, WI, with four gold medals in racquetball, the 100 meter sprint, long jump, and volleyball, one silver medal in the 200 meters, “and a pair of crutches” from a ruptured Achilles tendon received in her silver event.
Comedy Corner: Sebastian Maniscalco
Sebastian Maniscalco has appeared on “Comedy Central,” Vince Vaughan’s “Wild West Comedy Tour,” and “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” We spoke about his thoughts on jury duty the moment after he got dismissed in the afternoon.
“The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme”
“By the time Gerôme died in 1904, he was recognized in America as a celebrated lion of the French art world, but also regularly criticized as a second-rate master.” That’s co-curator Mary Morton on the once prolific and ubiquitous Jean-Leon Gérôme (b.1824), a descriptive realist and a painter of historical and fanciful panoramas who was […]
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Concert in the Park Rock and soul band, The Tom Nolan Band, will perform from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday at Polliwog Park, located at 1601 Manhattan Beach Boulevard. The show is part of the city’s Concerts in the Park series, which will feature bands such as Doo-Wah Riders and Lisa Haley and […]