The Nightlife: Mean Girls — Alive and Well in the South Bay
Open any day now: Hamptons on Manhattan Ave near Mama D’s. Executive Chef David Linville offers east coast style seafood and more. Brag-able beer and wine menu. Opening this summer Jackson’s Food + Drink on Rosecrans Ave near Arclight Theater. Genre: New American, wine bar, gastropub. Until then, you can spot Chef Ben Wright cooking […]
Cancer victims find an Ocean of Hope
Paddling across the Catalina Channel is no easy feat. If unpredictable ocean currents and weather conditions aren’t enough to contend with, battling physical and mental fatigue adds to the challenge of completing the course that begins at Catalina Island and finishes on the mainland. Beginning Sunday morning at the Isthmus on Catalina Island, dozens of […]
E&B President: Hermosa oil drilling safe
E&B Natural Resources President Steve Layton plans to be in Hermosa a lot over the next year to fifteen months. He and his wife just bought a house on Monterey Boulevard a couple weeks ago, and the company will open an office in town this summer. Layton plans to split time between the Hermosa office […]
Hermosa’s Greeko’s going away after 46 years
This time it’s really happening: Greeko’s is closing. The 46-year-old smoke and gift shop is considered one of the last vestiges of Old Hermosa, a time of bellbottoms and psychedelics. Although Greeko’s briefly went out of business at the end of 2008 when ownership changed, there’s no coming back this time, store owners said. That’s […]
Hermosa police union resisting cuts
The Hermosa Beach Police Officers Association has begun a public outreach effort calling attention to what it sees as detrimental cuts to the salary and benefits package looming in the proposed city budget. Representatives from the police union spoke about their concerns at the Kiwanis Club last week, and the president of the POA said […]
Sweet success: Inside Neutrogena President Susan Sweet’s career
How Neutrogena president Susan Sweet balanced toughness and tenderness in her ascension to corporate leadership
Reason to smile
Photos by Ricky Lesser The horn had barely sounded the end of the finals heat of the Spyder/South Bay Boardriders contest last month at the Manhattan pier, when Waterman’s team captain Larry Burke and Dane McConahue hoisted Kelly Zaun to their shoulders and marched him up the beach for the celebratory Champaign shower. “Not so […]
The fight for Fiji: Surf trip to paradise
by Dickie O’Reilly Years from now, The Spyder/South Bay Bay Boardriders open men’s finals will be remembered as one of the most memorable and contentious inSouth Bay history. Advancing to the finals were six of the South Bay’s top surfers. Two of them, Mira Costa grad Dane Zaun, 21, and El Segundo grad Matt Pagan, […]