Pier Avenue Makeover [PHOTOS]
The avenue that runs downhill from Pacific Coast Highway toward the ocean sparkles new and spacious, with pedestrians strolling its sidewalks and long-vacant properties serendipitously coming to life on both sides of the roadway. Businesspeople say their patrons are still finding their way back to the avenue, but the numbers of returnees is continuing to […]
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Candidate responds
Dear ER:
Election season is here! On March 8 we’ll elect two candidates to Manhattan Beach City Council. I’m honored to have the strong support of our residents and community leaders, many of whom I’ve met knocking on doors and at events throughout our City. I’ve enjoyed our lively discussions about our challenges and how we’ll work together to make Manhattan Beach an even better place to live. I look forward to continuing our dialogue as your Councilwoman!
On Local Government: The post-Egypt chest thumping has begun
The post-Egypt chest thumping has begun. Some pundits claim that the rise of the seeking of democracy in totalitarian states (which we, by the way, have long supported) is the long term result of the foreign policies initiated by the newly beatified St. Ronald of Reagan. Others say it is a vindication of the George W. Bush Iraq policy. Still others laud President Obama for a skillful navigation of a very precarious situation.
Murder, whisky, and love: The White Buffalo returns
Something is going on with The White Buffalo.
He hasn’t been singing that long. He didn’t even start until a dozen or so years ago, when as a 19-year-old songs began pouring forth with such ferocity, and in such a forceful and unusual voice, that even his mother was a bit startled.
“Aw, honey,” she said. “What is this?”
“33 Variations” Kaufman’s newest work with Jane Fonda as a Beethoven scholar suffering from ALS
Playwright Moisés Kaufman rose to prominence with “Gross Indecencies: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde,” and then later with “The Laramie Project.” As a director, he’s turned Raji Joseph’s “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” into a critical success. Kaufman’s newest work, “33 Variations,” with Jane Fonda reprising the role of a Beethoven scholar suffering from ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, opened last week at the Ahmanson Theatre.
The chickens are all fired up at El Pollo Inka in Hermosa Beach
Some of the best jewelry boxes don’t look like much from the outside; a simple square in white or black, covered with nice fabric or the traditional fuzzy velvet. The blank exterior heightens the sense of anticipation, of opening it to reveal a bauble set on luxurious shining fabric. Let costume jewelry be sold in gaudy boxes that catch the eye better than what is within.
It would be nice to think that restaurants locate in strip malls due to a similar high-minded philosophy, but that’s not the case – they site there because space is cheap, parking plentiful, and it’s where the customers already are. Still, some strip mall places do go all out in interior decoration so that customers who venture within are rewarded.
Waste contract gets hauled off from council meeting agenda
The highly-anticipated awarding of the city’s waste hauling contract was thrown out of Tuesday night’s City Council meeting agenda after drawing out enough residents to pack Council Chambers. Mayor Richard Montgomery’s absence from the meeting came with little warning, and led to an embarrassing display of miscommunication between the City Council and city staff, when […]
Road Trip — inside the makeover of a main drag, Hermosa’s ongoing makeover of upper Pier Avenue
Michelle Hart, co-owner of the Maximus Salon, had to raise her voice over the roar of heavy machinery to answer questions last May about Hermosa’s ongoing makeover of upper Pier Avenue, the iconic main drag that runs past her door. “There is no foot traffic. Walk-ins are down 75 percent – just gone, disappeared. They […]
4th of July fireworks saved for one more year, at least
The City Council on Tuesday night approved the Fourth of July fireworks celebration for this year. But the event organizer, Pete Moffett, said this would be his last year, and the council sent a strong message to the business community that it needs to pick up the costs of the annual celebration or the event […]
Food trucks ride growing trend to Redondo
They came by bicycle, they came by foot. Some drove cars, some rolled in on skateboards. A few thousand hungry people, all totaled, arrived at a parking lot outside a vacant restaurant in Redondo Beach last weekend where a small posse of large trucks had circled their wagons and opened their doors. The circus hadn’t […]