A La Carte: Dining News for 05 January 2017
Long Awaited Openings… Over two years since the previous tenant departed, the Laurel Tavern has opened just north of the corner of Hermosa Avenue and Pier. The décor is classic, the cocktail selection abundant, the food menu a brief list of sandwiches and sides. They seem to anticipate confusion about their ordering system, since they […]
PCH. Matt Pagan’s Surfari from the past year [SURF VIDEO]
Filmed and edited by Mike Pagan and Gage Hingeley A few sessions from baja to central CA throughout this past year. Edited to ‘Dear Lover’ by Social Distortion. For photos, head to sandpipertv.com
Beer Bros: Brouwerij West gets canned (and other Hoppy Happenins)
by Ed Solt “Life’s too short to drink shitty beer,” I’ve heard once or twice from craft beer veterans ridiculing me years ago, while I stabbed a hole into a can of Silver Bullet CL Smoothie. As local craft beer becomes more mainstream, it’s now possible to shotgun (if you dare, a potent IPA) a […]
In Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson”, life Americana is lyrical [MOVIE REVIEW]
by Ryan Rojas/www.cinemacy.com The thing about daily life, since it’s typically lived in such a familiar, repetitive and track-like fashion, is that we often miss the subtle, magical coincidences that are going on around us all the time. In his latest movie, “Paterson“, writer and director Jim Jarmusch sprinkles in these subtle surrealities that […]
WeWork coworking startup launches in Manhattan Beach Towers
WeWork members in the newly-opened WeWork Manhattan Beach space on Tuesday. Photo courtesy WeWork December 3 was move-in day at WeWork Manhattan Beach. Laptop users slowly filled up long community tables — known as “hot desks” — in the main room, while more permanent office users get themselves set up in their own assigned […]
Peninsula Homes: Jane Austen Lives Here
The rare Regency style Peninsula home was inspired by its owners’ backgrounds and travels Photos by Kim Pritchard and Rob Massi The late Rita Rogers, M.D. met her future husband G. Allen Rogers, M.D. at Albany Medical School in the late 1950s, while finishing her psychiatric residency. Rita was born in Romania. In her […]
Retired Redondo Beach police captain given Key to City
After 28 years of service, the City of Redondo Beach bid farewell to Police Captain Tom Krafick as Mayor Steve Aspel presented Krafick with the Key to the City at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting. “I don’t feel like I should be going home as the old guy, but the city is in great hands […]
Audit of Manhattan Beach finances is positive, council eyes future concerns
Manhattan Beach runs its financial department about as well as a city can, but officials remain wary about key fiscal pressures. This was the message at Tuesday night’s city council meeting, when the city received the highest possible evaluation of its financial disclosures. The audit examined the soundness of the city’s internal financial accounting, delivering […]