Thomas begins comeback with R-10 Paddleboard Race victory
After taking a year off, Catalina Classic 2011 winner Brad Thomas, of Redondo Beach, reasserted himself at the 2013 Riviera Mexican Grill R-10 paddleboard race on June 1. The 72 paddlers enjoyed glassy conditions and warm water with a lingering west swell. Thomas’ time of 1:21 was just one minute faster than Canon Smith of […]
The journey is the destination for Catalina Express’ Greg Bombard
Over the past four decades Catalina Island native sons Greg Bombard and Tom Rutter have worked at making the trip to Catalina Island as pleasurable an adventure as being on the island Greg Bombard and Tom Rutter started Catalina Express in 1981. The childhood friends grew up together in Avalon. Greg’s father Doug moved to […]
Manhattan Beach cigar shop robber found guilty
A Los Angeles man could face life in prison after a Torrance judge found him guilty Monday of violently robbing a Manhattan Beach cigar shop last August. Tyler Lee Rodgers, 19, was found guilty of attempted murder, robbery, kidnapping and burglary. He was also convicted of breaking into a Torrance house after DNA evidence linked […]
Scoring surf, making friends in El Salvador: AST Surf Travel
by Dave Hall Twenty years after the end of El Salvador’s brutal civil war, the tropical, Central American country’s black, volcanic beaches and right point breaks have made it a destination for surfers from around the world. One group of surfers who have made repeat visits to El Salvador is the members of the Mira […]