A La Carte: the Phelan Good Café, Dickey’s BBQ, Chinese Friends, fried chicken and Abigaile
Puns With Your Lunch… I enjoy wordplay, so I had to smile when I saw the Phelan Good Café, a tiny establishment located by the corner of Phelan and Robinson in North Redondo. This used to be the North Beach Café, but the new owner has renamed it, and I approve of the change. I […]
Safe House – but for whom? Denzel Washington does it again [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Safe House,” the rip-roaring film opening this Friday, is an adrenalized, testosterone-laced chase from beginning to end, bolstered by great acting, a credible script and twists and turns that you are too dizzy to see coming. Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) is a former agent now on the CIA’s most wanted list for trafficking in secret […]
In Darkness: a powerful film about human frailty and strength in the Holocaust [MOVIE REVIEW]
“In Darkness,” based on a true story, explores darkness in ways literal and figurative. 1943 Lvov, Poland was a dismal place. Previously occupied by the Soviets, now overrun by their former Nazi allies, there were no resources, little food and a palpable resentment toward the occupants of the Jewish Ghetto who so often seemed to […]
RBPD officer charged with tipping off TPD officer
An RBPD officer stands accused of tipping off a Torrance officer about the police stakeout of a drug deal that may reveal larger problems within the Torrance PD
Mira Costa student arrested for alleged threats, drugs
A 16-year-old Mira Costa High School student was arrested on Tuesday at his home for alleged possession of marijuana for sale and criminal threats to Mira Costa students and staff members. “The student who made the threats will be suspended pending a recommendation for expulsion, the maximum disciplinary consequence allowed under California Education Code,” wrote […]
Redondo Union High School class teaches essential life skills
Jodi Rhodes’ class is, as she describes it, the happiest classroom at Redondo Union High School. “There is always learning, laughing and plenty of smiles to go around,” Rhodes said. Rhodes teaches the Essential Skills class, a program at RUHS for no-diploma bound students that centers on functional academics and focuses on the teaching of […]
RBFD fights to rescue their kitchen
The Redondo Beach Fire Department is one of five fire departments competing in IKEA’s Rescue Remodel contest to win a new $25,000 kitchen remodel. But despite the fact RBFD firefighters live in a leaky 60-year-old building with 28-year-old kitchen cupboards and counters, and have taken pay cuts three years straight, the department is running third-to-last […]
CLO leaves Hermosa Beach
Citing an increase in the cost of producing shows at the Hermosa Playhouse, the Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities has moved its smaller productions to El Segundo, ending a 14-year run in Hermosa Beach. In a separate move, the CLO is relocating its larger productions to San Pedro from the Redondo Beach Performing […]
Hermosa Beach youth inspires with T-shirt
Eight-year-old Calvin Hoffman likes his life. If you don’t believe it, you can look for his T-shirts in one of Hermosa’s iconic surf shops, Spyder Surfboards. The shirt, with the message “I Like My Life” and a spunky wave logo, was created by Calvin and his mother Regina Hoffman to promote a positive outlook from […]
Jaguar is lead for Hermosa Beach detectives
Police detectives used witness accounts of a green Jaguar getaway car to nab three suspects and seize several thousand dollars worth of cosmetics, clothing and other merchandise stolen from stores and pharmacies in the beach cities and Los Angeles. The three had left a store in Manhattan Beach when Hermosa detectives recognized their Jaguar as […]
Hermosa Beach News Briefs, Feb 8, 2012
To the wall The second of 10 planned outdoor murals in Hermosa Beach will be formally unveiled 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11. The unveiling of the mural, on the eastern wall of New Orleans Café, will be viewed from the rooftop of the200 Pier Ave.office-retail complex, where complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a no-host bar will […]