Occupy LA through the eyes of the young [PHOTOS]
“Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.’ – Mathew 18:3 [scrollGallery id=284] by Jeff Dietrich, Photos by by Jim Ruymen/newspix It’s for the tear gas, she said, pushing a vinegar soaked rag into my hand. These are for the percussion […]
The Nightlife: 5 Places to Bedazzle Yourself for Holiday Parties
Free Burger on Mondays: Union Cattle Company, when you buy a craft beer during Monday Night Football, only two weeks left. .25-Cent Burger on Tuesdays: The Rockefeller, with a draft beer or wine purchase in December. Gourmet Burgers everyday: Umami Burger, now open on Hermosa Ave. at the former site of Sushi Sei. Happy One-Year […]
The Nightlife: Lululemon offers Rooftop Yoga
Folks, betcha didn’t know this: You can do yoga on Shade‘s skydeck roof! Not whenever you feel like it, but when Lululemon of El Segundo offers it. Typically once a month, they provide a complimentary yoga class in the evening. You’ll be tempted to stop during class to take photos of the sunset. I managed […]
Mid Century Modernist
“What could be better than to sit in a glass-enclosed space looking at the sunset every night and then looking out at the moon?” Floating elegantly over its sloping, corner lot in Manhattan Beach’s hill section, the Greco residence masterfully combines Modernist design rigor with quintessential California cool. Glass, steel and concrete team with teak […]
London River: a powerful film about the unlikely intersections of human lives [MOVIE REVIEW]
Rachid Bouchareb is probably not a name you’ve heard before although he’s a director/writer/producer who has been nominated for an Academy Award three times and has racked up innumerable awards around the world for his intensely felt, deeply reasoned stories that challenge the boundaries of human expectation. His new, or actually newly released, film “London […]
Snowfest rocks Hermosa Beach
Top area snowboarders did back flips over a tall ramp and 180-degree turns atop a Mercedes Benz sedan, wowing hundreds of spectators lining “Mount Hermosa,” a sloping, 60-ton snow field on upper Pier Avenue, for Saturday’s second annual Spyder Snowfest sponsored by Spyder Surf, Volcom and Electric. Celebrity judges included two-time snowboarder of the year […]
Hermosa Beach balks at South Park community garden
The City Council has balked at creating a community garden at South Park, calling for further study before another meeting on the subject in January. Councilman Jeff Duclos has spearheaded a move to place a community garden, with inexpensive plots leased to Hermosans in a rotating lottery, on the northeast corner of the grassy, 4.5-acre […]
Another missing Hermosa time capsule
When officials buried Hermosa’s “millennium time capsule” at the foot of the Pier Plaza pedestal clock in 2008, they registered the underground cylinder with the International Time Capsule Society, which promises to keep a record for whomever decides to dig it up 100 years later. And it’s probably a good thing. If the 21-year-old society […]
Hermosa Internet entrepreneur named to post
Hermosa entrepreneur Frank Addante has been appointed to the board of directors of Court Appointed Special Advocates of Los Angeles (CASA-LA), a nonprofit organization serving the interests of children in the dependency court system and in foster homes. Addante is founder and CEO of the Rubicon Project, an online advertising technology company with more than […]
Raising Arianna
When Lauren Spiglanin realized she couldn’t get pregnant, she and her husband, Tom, decided to adopt a child from an orphanage in Armenia.
Peninsula pair wins with wine
The opportunity to pair wine with community blooms with Peninsula couple by Frank Brown “Wait until you see the legs on this one,” says Bill Glantz to visitors at his Rancho Palos Verdes home. The “legs” in this instance are gentle lines slowly tracing down a glass of Sangiovese 2007 wine he swirls and then […]
Peninsula Charity Turning Outward
Vicki Scrimger and Alan Cook are happier from helping people The rewards of helping others are well known to Vicki Scrimger and Alan Cook, who are among the volunteer angels of the 40-year-old Community Helpline, one of the Peninsula’s enduring and well-known altruistic organizations. Scrimger, a marriage and family therapist, has been helping the Helpline […]
Police canine led a life of service
Sniffing out suspects was nine year-old Andy’s greatest duty. A keen sense of smell and a friendly personality were Andy’s greatest assets. Unfortunately, after battling cancer for a year, last Sunday was his final day and he spent it with his greatest friends, retired Officer Rich Sigler and his family. “He was a high-drive dog […]
Around Hermosa Beach
Toy drive The annual Beach Cities Toy Drive is on, with a bin at the firehouse on Pier Avenue near Valley Drive, for new, unwrapped toys. The drive provides as many as 5,000 toys a year to kids who otherwise might not get them. Auld Lang Syne The Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce will bring […]
Palmilla: a cocina done right [RESTAURANT REVIEW]
Greg Newman’s new venture delivers traditional Mexican cuisine with a refined flair I have become wary of restaurants that take high style to extremes; there are plenty of places I could mention where someone has spent cash and creativity on the décor, seemingly without ever considering what might be served inside their oh-so-hip spot after […]
The Nutcracker
The South Bay Ballet’s visually stunning take on a holiday favorite Adapted from a nineteenth-century German fairytale and set to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s iconic score, The Nutcracker ballet tells the story of a young girl, Clara, whose dreams of an enchanted nutcracker prince and a faraway kingdom are brought magically to life on a snowy, […]