7-year-old boy killed while bicycling near grocery store in North Redondo Beach [VIDEO]
A 7-year-old boy was killed Friday morning as he bicycled near the Albertson’s grocery store on Artesia Boulevard in North Redondo Beach. A truck making a delivery accidentally ran over the boy near the store’s loading bay. According to police reports, at about 10:28 a.m. an Albertsons truck was backing into the bay when the […]
Letters: tacos, sharks, good credit for Manhattan, bad credit for America
Good Stuff’s bad deal Dear ER: Good Stuff Hermosa has had a wonderful Taco Cart Thursday promotion, which they have stopped due to a petty, unfounded complaint to the health department. Good Stuff is completely clean and within the law. In myAmerica, good, healthy competition is encouraged not forced out by crude, unprofessional thuggery. Bring […]
Young local athletes swim to success
Given a choice, former Redondo Union High School swimming standout Jonathan Diaz prefers the choppy ocean surf to the smooth water of a pool any day of the week. “It’s colder but feels better on the body,” Diaz said. “Plus it’s a lot more challenging.” A longtime member of the competitive Swim Torrance team and […]
South Bronx to South Bay: Adventures in Wonderland
Politics is supposed to be the art of compromise, but the end result of the debt-ceiling debacle was the most artless compromise in memory. Actually, it wasn’t compromise at all, it was capitulation. Imagine: Both houses of Congress, and the President of what used to be called the Greatest Nation in the World, held hostage […]
Hermosa Beach council tweaks tax measure for surreal November ballot
The Hermosa Beach City Council met briefly Tuesday morning to put the finishing touches on a tax-hike measure that will go on the November ballot, to compete with a citizens’ tax-hike initiative that has been repudiated by its own sponsor. The surreal election season features the citizens’ initiative, which would raise taxes steeply on some […]
Khatia Buniatishvili, “Franz Liszt” (Sony Classical)
On this, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, we have an album calculated to make a splash. And why not? Liszt was an innovator, a Romantic right up there with Chopin, Berlioz, Schubert and Wagner, but also perhaps the world’s first Rock Star. Ken Russell didn’t title his bio-pic “Lisztomania” […]
Manhattan Beach resident charged with child molestation
Manhattan Beach resident Ronald Balmayne, 76, was charged with two counts of lewd act upon a child and one count of sexual exploitation of a child on July 28, according to a Manhattan Beach Police Department press release. Balmayne will appear in front of court on Thursday, August 11.