Hammitt Handbags Celebrates Ten Year Anniversary [MANHATTAN BEACH]
The smell of leather laced the air of the hip Manhattan Beach bar, Twelve + Highland, renamed Twelve + Hammittland for an evening late last April. Where friends normally sip cocktails and eat crispy calamari sat hundreds of soft Hammitt purses, adorned with the signature gold and silver rivets and classic silhouettes of the 10-year-old brand.
Marymount College touts quiet successes
On a peaceful hillside in Rancho Palos Verdes overlooking San Pedro and the Pacific Ocean, Marymount College is quietly enjoying some tremendous success lately. Within the past three years this small liberal arts college now with enrollment topping 1,000 students opened a satellite campus in San Pedro for four-year degree programs, joined a collegiate sports […]
Manhattan Beach youth show off tricks at Bike and Skateboard Expo
Manhattan Beach youth crowded at this year’s Bike and Skateboard Expo on Saturday in the City Hall parking lot, hosted by the Parks and Recreation and Police departments.
Historic battleship draws crowd
Talk of the town this week centered around the historic USS Iowa battleship that slowly made its way around the Palos Verdes peninsula on Wednesday toward its new home in San Pedro where it will become a museum. People stopped along Palos Verdes Drive throughout the day Wednesday to catch a glimpse of the 45,000-ton […]
HB man wins $500,000
When Hermosa Beach resident David Floyd got the news he’d won $500,000 from the Palos Verdes Art Center’s annual Win Your Dream House Raffle! he said he went “a little crazy.” “It was pretty unbelievable,” Floyd said. “The first reaction is somebody is pulling some trick on you somehow. It’s taken a while for it […]
Neighbors defend Eucalyptus tree to no avail
A 43-year-old Eucalyptus tree drew support from a contingent of Palos Verdes Estates neighbors last month who tried unsuccessfully to save one of the few big trees left on the block. The city council on May 8 approved removal of the tree that grew in the right-of-way in the 1200 block of Via Estudillo. The […]
South Bay Boardriders top 10 division surfers [PHOTOS]
[scrollGallery id= 393] Over 200 surfers from throughout Southern California competed in the Second Annual South Bay Boardriders Contest Series. A dinner honoring the top finishers in the 10 divisions was held last month at American Junkie (formerly Sangria). Open men champion Kelly Zaun won a trip to Fiji aboard Air Pacific. There was no […]