Jean-Michel Cousteau at Dive N Surf
Saturday, February 18 Diving legend Jean-Michel Cousteau will sign copies of his memoirs My Father, the Captain on Saturday, Feb. 18 from noon to 4 p.m. at Dive N’ Surf in Redondo Beach. The book recounts growing up with his father Jacques Cousteau, who is credited with bringing the undersea world to world wide attention […]
The Nightlife: 5 Alternatives to Taco Tuesday
Thursday at 4 p.m. The Counter Burger in Hermosa Beach serves complimentary appetizers at its official ribbon cutting and grand opening ceremony. . . .Patrick Molloy’s is closed for improvements, but re-opens Friday the 17th at 9 p.m.. . . .Feb 21 is Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras. Celebrate at Fish Bar with $5 cocktails such […]
Manhattan Beach community honors DUI crash victims
Local DUI victims Henry Pearson and Jon Wilhite, as well as their friends Courtney Stewart and Nick Adenhart, were honored in a moving memorial dedication Saturday before a large gathering at Marine Park.
Historical mural is unveiled
Civic leaders, artists and others crowded onto a spacious third-floor rooftop to watch Saturday’s formal unveiling of a 52-foot long, 14-foot high mural depicting a 1909 Hermosa landscape, painted along the eastern wall of New Orleans Café on Pier Avenue. On hand at the afternoon gathering atop the 200 Pier office-retail complex, across Manhattan Avenue […]
Good news is found in Hermosa Beach city budget report
News of a slowly recovering economy was found in a mid-year Hermosa Beach budget report, which estimates a 4 percent rise in revenues flowing to City Hall, on the heels of a 1 percent revenue increase the year before. “As reported in January with the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for 2010-11, the revenue picture […]
The travels of Ottmar
Master guitarist and Zen monk Ottmar Liebert comes to Saint Rocke Forty years ago an unusual boy, born with a faraway look in his eyes, wandered the streets of Cologne, Germany. Ottmar Liebert, as he would later describe himself, was a mutt. The son of a German-Chinese father and a Hungarian mother, Liebert possessed a […]