Redondo Beach Unified School District testing interrupted by Frontier internet outage
More than 5,000 Redondo Beach Unified School District students had state-mandated standardized testing disrupted when their internet connection, provided by Frontier Communications, failed on Thursday. “Email and internet access is very important to us, and high-stakes assessments are very important to us, and they’ve compromised the integrity of our instructional programs,” said District Superintendent […]
South Bay Dining News: BBQ coming to Redondo Beach harbor, El Gringo Kantina comes to El Segundo, South Bay Beer & Wine Festival Sunday, new Thai in Torrance, and more
Dealing From A New Deck… Rebel Republic Social House is open in Riviera Village, and they’re serving both indoors and from the first of the new “dining decks” to open for business. The feel on those decks is very much like a porch or patio, with rustic wood benches and an astroturf-covered floor. According to […]
South Bay entertainment calendar May 12 to 19
Friday, May 13 Laugh lines The improvisational comedy troupe Jump Start improvises funny scenes using audience suggestions, and they’re performing at 8 p.m. in the Second Story Theatre, 710 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach. Tickets, $15. Are you under 12? Your ticket is just $5. More at JumpStartImprov.com. Climbing the ropes Harold Lloyd stars in the […]
Hermosa Beach Police Beat
Graffiti spree Unknown suspects spraypainted multiple locations in downtown Hermosa last weekend, according to Hermosa Beach police reports. Various structures in the 1300 block of Manhattan Avenue, including a construction site, a car license plate and a trailer, were hit with graffiti at some point on or around the early morning of May 1, police […]
Hope Chapel team crowned champs at robotics competition
When the dust cleared, the points were tallied, and the joysticks stopped moving, the Beach Bots stood as champions. The Beach Bots, the youth robotics team of the Hope Chapel Academy, recently won the 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition held in St. Louis. FIRST, established by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, is an annual robotics competition that […]
Measure K is the key for Kensington project
For more than 30 years, the site of the former Patterson Elementary School, 320 Knob Hill Road, has been in search of an identity. After shutting its doors in 1981 due to declining enrollment, the site has twice been named surplus property by the Redondo Beach Unified School District, once in 1983 and again in […]
“Sing Street” is another musical romp from the director of “Once” [MOVIE REVIEW]
by Jared Anderson/www.cinemacy.com “Sing Street,” from the Irish filmmaker John Carney, takes place during the homestretch of the Cold War when a group of adolescents come together in the name of fellowship, bonding over pop culture, and a desire to break away from the confines of the tangible. Carney is best known for grabbing the […]