Editor Pick: Best Muse
Laura Orr – A Muse is one’s inspiration, a religious icon for some or a sublime view of nature. For a painter, a composer, or a poet it may be a specific woman through whom shines a divine radiance. There is a surging feeling of exuberance and delight, but also, more solemnly, a deep sense […]
Jumping for Joy: Lindsay Douglass and Pernoodle raise money to help kids when they’re not leaping to championships
Lindsay Douglass does just about everything with her hoofed friend “Pernoodle,” from jumping over eight-foot walls for horse-show trophies to raising money for kids who can use a break. “I just love her,” the 18-year-old Palos Verdes High School senior said of her 13-year-old Dutch Warmblood, whose official name is Pernot but goes by Pernoodle. […]
Editor Pick: Best Party Animal
J. Brant “B-Rant” Carnwath – You’ve seen him around, sometimes in a wig and a tutu, almost always in exposed tighty-whiteys of some sort, and often in the presence of some poor, exhausted bouncer pleading with him to put his pants back on. He’s the kind of guy who wears elephant thong underwear under brightly […]
Editor’s Pick: Best wave
Oneil Francis – While the sun rises over the skyline and hot coffee helps jump start early-morning motorists on their weekday commute along Pacific Coast Highway, there are few smiling faces. Oneil Francis likes to change that. For two-and-a-half years, Francis has manned his post at the intersection of 8th Street and Pacific Coast Highway […]
Laura Ayers Clayton and Jacob Steen Niemiec announce engagement
Laura Clayton and Jacob Niemiec are pleased to announce their engagement. Laura is a 2002 graduate of Peninsula High School and holds a degree from the University of Redlands. She is a therapist for children with autism, employed by the Palos Verdes School District. Laura is the daughter of Michele Ayers Clayton of Rancho Palos […]
Editor’s Pick: Best Art Studio
Cannery Row Studios – Cannery Row Studios has long been known as the last bastion of bohemianism in the South Bay, but in truth, it is far more. The ramshackle old building behind the AES power plant in Redondo Beach has had lives as a railroad lumberyard and a fish storage warehouse, but for the […]