The Descendants: Alexander Payne’s early holiday present to moviegoers [MOVIE REVIEW]
As teenagers wait for the dog days of summer to find their release in air conditioned movie theaters with 3D special effects-laden tentpoles, so do I await the unpredictable winter months in Southern California because that signals the arrival of those mostly Indie features that reveal that American directors actually do understand the importance of […]
Pipeline: Redondo’s Beaty wins shortboard and longboard divisions
A few weeks ago the South Bay High School Surf League held its Kick off Classic so the coaches could get an idea of how their surfers will fare in league contest. A lot of surfers rip everyday but can’t hold up under contest pressure situations. Last weekend the best surfers competed for their high […]
Man arrested for alleged burglary
Roger Lee Grigsby IV, 22, was arrested on Nov. 3 in connection with a burglary at a home on the 1500 block of 9th Street that was being fumigated, according to the Manhattan Beach Police Department. The home had been tented on Sept. 13. The next morning, the tent was found cut open and the […]
AES sub committee idea dead
Redondo Beach Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to halt discussions to form a sub committee to research AES’s plans to re-power the power plant and reconfigure their land. Council members have been discussing the possibility of a sub committee for months, only to push it off after heated discussions about who would sit on the […]
Police K-9s show support for cats at Peter Zippi fundraiser in Hermosa Beach
Hermosa Beach Police K-9 Keef earned his keep shortly after completing his training with his handler Officer George Brunn three years ago. Brunn and Keef were called to search a rental car that law enforcement agents suspected was transporting drugs. Keef began scratching at the car’s trunk, where the agents found a duffle bag. The […]
Hermosa Beach vet recalls Pearl Harbor horrors
The horror of war fell upon Hermosan Leonard Brugnola suddenly, when Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes rained death and destruction on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in an attack that would shock the nation and propel it into World War II. Brugnola was a young U.S. Navy seaman who had fought only seasickness up until the […]
Hermosa Beach schools still doing more with less
Hermosa students are benefiting from an increased focus on writing programs and the use of “differentiated education” to augment their strengths and shore up their weaknesses, said educators who used the first annual “State of the Schools” address to detail the workings of the public schools. City school board president Cathy McCurdy, the two campus […]
Manhattan Beach decides on mid-week Six-Man tournament
Next year’s Charlie Saikley Six Man Volleyball Tournament will be held in the middle of the week to reduce the number of unruly spectators that flock to the “drunk-fest-frat-party-free-for-all” on that weekend, the City Council decided at its meeting on Tuesday.
Redondo Beach: Police Blotter Nov. 9-13
After hours construction On Nov. 9 at 246 S. Pacific Coast Highway officers responded to the Chase Bank on three separate occasions regarding a complaint of after-hours construction noise at the location. According to a press release from the RBPD, initially the workers were advised by officers about the City’s ordinance regarding construction noise. On […]
Around Hermosa Beach
Web upgrade The City of Hermosa Beachhas upgraded its website hermosabch.org, offering easier navigation, updated content and a sleeker design. “In our ongoing efforts to ensure transparency and accountability, the city created this new website to make information more easily and readily available and accessible to the public,” Mayor Howard Fishman said. “Visitors to the […]
Beach Cities bus line 104 cancelled
Redondo Beach council members voted unanimously but reluctantly to cut the 104 line of the Beach Cities Transit at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Line 104 runs from the Redondo Beach Pier, through Torrance and onto the Riviera Village. The line was previously dropped by Torrance Transit in 2005 when the BCT picked it up and […]
Veterans young and old honored at Redondo Beach Veterans Day Service
When Christopher Batiste, a 29-year-old Army E-6 from Inglewood, served his first tour inIraq, he had no communication with his family for 12 months. “I was basically pen-pals with my wife,” Batiste said last week in an interview. During his second tour, he was able to communicate with her and his children via Skype, but […]