Redondo High Softball host Hot Rod, Custom Car Show [PHOTOS]
The Redondo Union High School Softball Booster Club presented its inaugural Hot Rod and Custom Car Show on Feb. 18. The show was organized by Chris Licata of Beach Coast Insurance. Photos by Johnny Gonzales
Forgiveness of Blood: bloody unforgivable [MOVIE REVIEW]
I’d have opened a vein if it had only stopped the interminable “The Forgiveness of Blood.” Taking place in northern Albania, a country still feudal in its societal relations, two families, long at odds over property that at one time belonged to one and was given to the other by the government (read: Communists), are […]
Hostaria Piave delicately and deliciously brings the flavors of Venice to Redondo Beach [RESTAURANT REVIEW]
The South Bay’s newest Venetian-style restaurant is Hostaria Piave, named after a river that once served as a route for fresh produce to reach the city.
A high-tech Redondo Beach police sting operation nets an unexpected bounty: dozens of career criminals
The signal went out late on a Friday afternoon. From various points in the South Bay, a Special Investigations Unit comprised of eight detectives from three different police departments were simultaneously alerted via text message. The bait bike was on the move. The bicycle had been chained to a rack near the Green Line station […]
Wanderlust: wanders with little lust, not much else [MOVIE REVIEW]
Yuppies George and Linda, living their “dream” in New York City are sh++ out of luck when he loses his job and her documentary about cancer-ridden penguins in Antarctica (think “An Inconvenient Truth” meets “March of the Penguins”) is passed on by HBO. Offered a job by his brother Rick, George and Linda pack up […]
Alta Vista Elementary students go to science camp and see snow
Ten-year-old Stanley Reinhart had never seen snow before in his life. Two weeks ago during the fifth-grade science camp at Blue Sky Meadow, he had his chance — along with 105 other students from Alta Vista Elementary School.
The City of Redondo Beach’s day laborer petition denied
Day laborers may now legally solicit work from passing vehicles in Redondo Beach after the U.S. Supreme Court this week denied a petition from the City of Redondo Beach to hear arguments for a day laborer ban.
Manhattan Beach community rallies for fired trash man
Gilberto Santillan walked into Angela DuRoss and John Taylor’s Manhattan Beach home one recent afternoon with a red cooler full of hot tamales stuffed with cheese. Santillan, a 55-year-old man who speaks broken English, has been visiting DuRoss and Taylor’s home – and 1,000 other Manhattan Beach homes – every week for more than 15 years. He was their trash man.