Riding a wave- straight up
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a man with a jet pack in the Redondo Beach harbor!
Third Hermosa power outage in two weeks raises questions [UPDATED]
About 3,500 customers briefly lost power in Hermosa Beach this morning, bringing the number of power outages due to equipment failure to three in the last two weeks. The power went out for 30 seconds because overhead equipment failed at Beach Drive and 15th Street, said a Southern California Edison spokesman. On Thursday, about 3,600 […]
Pheromone Party: a Field Trip to Los Angeles
Escape the Bubble: Head to a Pheromone Party Yes, yes, and yes. It’s like that, but no. So what’s a pheromone party? Short answer: you sleep in a clean shirt for 3 nights in a row, bring it to a party in a bag, and let other people sniff it. Pretty much. Then you rummage […]
The Nightlife: Year of the Nice Guy
Boardwalk Fries is opening up in spot of Mama D’s Hermosa Beach. Most food eateries are now open for lunch to feed our summer tourists. New summer menu at The Rockefeller includes chicken and waffles. Put that on my bucket list. Café Boogaloo serves an appetizing bowl of Seafood Corn Chowder. Looks like it would […]
“Unforgivable” isn’t entirely [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Unforgiveable,” the new film by the usually excellent André Téchiné, is a somewhat rambling discourse on relationships; lovingly, if curiously, set in Venice. We meet Francis, an aging, best-selling novelist, as he is interviewed; expounding on the difficulties of relationships and the impossibility of child rearing. Francis should know, as he has several disastrous relationships […]
“People Like Us” – aren’t really like us [MOVIE REVIEW]
Sam, the very picture of a handsome, charming conman, exists in the New York fringe business world of barter, essentially “selling air;” and he is very good at it. When informed by his girlfriend, Hannah, that his father has just died, his baby blues go blank; an expression that Hannah has seen before but never […]
HB news briefs
HOLIDAY PATROLS The Hermosa Beach Police Department plans to beef up its patrols of the beach and downtown over the Fourth of July weekend with 18 additional officers from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on horseback, motorcycle and foot patrol. Fines for public alcohol violations will be tripled to $300 beginning Saturday, June 30, […]
Bobko pushes outsourcing parking at Hermosa budget vote
The Hermosa Beach City Council approved a $37 million budget on Tuesday, riding an increase in the city’s sales tax and recent legal settlement with Macpherson Oil. The balanced budget, which includes a $2 million surplus, is also a result of the city cutting personnel by 13 percent over three years and small increases in […]
Hermosa Beach police chief released from hospital after chest pains
Lt. Tom Thompson will remain acting chief of police until Monday after Chief Steve Johnson suffered chest pains earlier in the week and was released from a hospital Wednesday. Johnson spent Tuesday night at Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance. Johnson suffered from a headache and chest pains, said Detective Mick Gaglia. […]
New Manhattan Beach Chamber CEO to bring benefits to businesses
Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Officer James O’Callaghan has been on the job for just more than a week now, and is already bringing new benefits to local businesses. “Today we just agreed to get discounted business memberships that we can offer to each of our clients for Costco,” he said, adding that […]