Manhattan Beach police seek help identifying home burglary suspects
The Manhattan Beach Police Department released surveillance photos Thursday showing suspects in two separate home burglaries last month and is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying them. On Sunday, Aug. 18, two suspects entered a resident’s garage in the 2900 block of Ocean Drive and stole a gray Crestwood beach cruiser bicycle and a […]
Redondo Beach council makes a push for air quality improvement
Redondo Beach council throws its unanimous support behind a proposed set of rules that the SCAQMD will either approve or reject at its Friday meeting.
About Town in Redondo Beach: Week of Sept. 5
What’s happening in Redondo Beach this week?
Photographer Bo Bridges moves home base to downtown Manhattan Beach
With an edgy and modern design that perfectly captures the vision of the owner, photographer Bo Bridges’ new gallery in downtown Manhattan Beach is slated for a grand opening in mid- to late-September. This art gallery will be the second for the photographer, who recently closed down his first one in Hermosa Beach, his place […]
One Book, One Peninsula sparks community conservation
For an author there’s perhaps no greater satisfaction than seeing an entire community take action based on something he or she wrote. And that’s exactly what’s happening throughout the Palos Verdes Peninsula with a book by Ed Humes called “Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash.” Events are planned throughout the month leading up to […]
Palos Verdes student heads to state board
While most seniors in high school are contracting a case of “senioritis,” Jesse Zhang has opted for an extra-heavy study load that has him leaving school each day often as late as 6 p.m. This month the Rancho Palos Verdes resident joins the California State Board of Education as its student representative. Zhang, who attends […]
Jeff Duclos; walk the walk
Los Angeles native and current Hermosa Beach City Councilman Jeff Duclos said this November’s ballot vote will be his third and final election, no matter the outcome. “Obviously persistence is a quality I’ve developed,” Duclos said during an interview while getting his hair cut at the Pier Avenue Jeans Store and Barber Shop Deep Pocket […]
A survivor’s tale: How a 28-year-old mother beat cancer, one day at a time, toddler in tow
by Jennifer Acee Robinson (Editor’s note: Jennifer Acee Robinson, a Redondo Beach resident, battled breast cancer while raising a little boy and, improbably, became pregnant with her second child while still undergoing radiation treatment. The following are her day-to-day recollections of this experience, which was also chronicled in her blog, Lovely, With a Side of […]
Power line sparks fire near Redondo Beach substation
A line above Southern California Edison’s Topaz substation caught fire early Saturday morning, causing a power outage and closing down streets near the intersection for several hours. According to witnesses in the neighborhood, the high voltage lines leading into the substation near the intersection of Knob Hill and Prospect Avenue began making loud hissing noises […]
Yo-yo champion hails from Redondo Beach
The second-best yo-yoist in the world, and the reigning U.S. champion, is a 19-year-old from Redondo Beach.
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow – “Fame,” in El Segundo, explores the renowned and the forgotten in a new exhibition
As Goethe says in Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years, “the names of outstanding men survive some fifty years in the memory of the people – after that the names vanish or become legendary.” Time and memory are dancing partners, but they’re not always in step. “Museums are often about remembering,” says Justinian Jampol, “and remembering an […]
City Council tepid at first Manhattan Village expansion public hearing
Approval of the Manhattan Village Mall expansion project is on the horizon, or so it seems. As the mall owner’s six-and-a-half year effort rallying support and gathering input from the community comes to a close, nearly a dozen individuals on both sides of the coin – consultants, stakeholders and residents – voiced their two cents […]