Cori Desmond’s accused killer had insatiable sex appetite, girlfriend says
A former girlfriend of Tony Lopez Perez, the Redondo Beach man accused of killing Cori Desmond, says he raped her on two occasions when she was heavily sedated. The man accused of killing popular Manhattan Beach bartender Cori Desmond on Valentine’s Day 2009 was increasingly becoming more aggressive sexually in the months before the homicide, […]
State budget could affect schools
Manhattan Beach Unified School District will be impacted by state budget cuts in the 2012 fiscal year, a district official said. California legislature passed the state budget on June 28, making cuts to programs and education to close the state’s $26 billion deficit. The budget estimates an additional $4 billion in general fund revenue to […]
A cut above: Hairdresser to star on reality show
Spencer Lebowitz, with a pair of scissors and comb in hand, stood over his canvas of the hour – a woman with short, wet blonde locks. “What I do for a living? I make people feel good about themselves,” he said. “Right away.”
State Supreme Court upholds plastic bag ban
It was the evening of January 15 – the first Manhattan Beach city council meeting of 2008.
An army of about 35 elementary school kids, then known as Planet Pals but now called Grades of Green, lined up at City Hall.
Janice Hahn sworn in as Congresswoman
Democratic Rep. Janice Hahn was sworn in by Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday, exactly one week after she was elected by voters to fill the House seat vacated by Jane Harman. Hahn said in an interview hours before her inauguration that jobs and the economy in the 36th Congressional District will be her top priorities. […]
Out of Africa comes Khaira Arby, the Nightingale of the North
Thanks to an admirer, one of Mali’s finest performs Thursday, July 21 at Saint Rocke She’s been called the Nightingale of the North, but Malian singer Khaira Arby was a caged songbird for much of her life. Born in Abaradjou, just north of Timbuktu, Arby’s Berber father forbade her musical aspirations, as did her first […]
Greyhound trips and motel room blues: Mike Zito’s different kind of soul music
The road Mike Zito took has included a long string of Motel 6’s, a very long stay in a little guitar shop in South Saint Louis, more than a few detours into drug-hazed ditches, and one very sad, long ride on a Greyhound bus. When he arrives at Café Boogaloo this Friday, the fact that […]
Redondo Beach war veteran leader John Simpson passes away
John Simpson, the fiery, eloquent war veteran whose passionate leadership and devotion to his fellow soldiers helped create the new Redondo Beach Veteran’s Memorial, passed away last Thursday. He was 79. Simpson only last month was honored by Assemblywoman Betsey Butler as the District 53 Veteran of the Year for the role he played as […]