January 18, 2012

The trees currently in front of the post office in Manhattan Beach.
Council approves Leadership Manhattan Beach project

This year’s Leadership Manhattan Beach class and the city’s Environmental Task Force have teamed up to renovate the landscape around the U.S. Post Office on 15th Street and Valley Drive to conserve water.

Kyle Richards
Keeping it real with Kyle Richards

Kyle Richards, star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills on Bravo TV, signed her recently published book, “Life is

Anthony Thomasson, 5, with Harmony, the puppy stolen from Manhattan Village in December.
Deaf dog reunited with family

Harmony, the deaf bulldog stolen from a car in the Manhattan Village parking just after Christmas, was returned last week to the family who had recently adopted her.

The Descendants: Slack Key Festival continues a tradition that goes back to the ancient kings of Hawaii

Long ago in the backyards and byways of Hawaii a secret music of a sort was played.

Its roots went back to the last kings of Hawaii and to the wandering Portuguese and Mexican cowboys who’d arrived to tend to their cattle. But the style – which later would be called “Slack Key” – was uniquely adapted, family by family, place by place, to become a truly native Hawaiian music.