A tour of Smog City Brewing Company in Torrance
Beer Craft- A Tour of Smog City Brewing in Torrance Smog City Brewing Company owner Laurie Porter takes us on a tour of their brewery in Torrance, Ca.
Congressman Ted Lieu proposes psychiatric evaluation of president
and David Mendez Congressman Ted Lieu plans to introduce a bill next week that would require President Donald Trump undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Congress, Lieu told Huffington Post, in 1928 started requiring that presidents have a physician at the White House to insure physical health. But no such requirement has ever been extended to cover presidential […]
Smog City’s Laurie Porter brings unity as LA Brewer Guild President
by Ed Solt Craft brewing power couple, Jonathan and Laurie Porter, sought out a brewery location after producing 300 or so barrels during first year of starting Smog City Brewing Company in 2011. Jonathan had been the head brewer at the Tustin Brewing Company since 2008. The Orange County brewpub let Jonathan brew his own […]
Beach people – Women on the march, asserting women’s rights
Over 2,000 women gathered at King Harbor in Redondo Beach to march
Beach service – Hermosa Beach Kiwanis host Taste At The Beach
Hermosa Beach Kiwanis Club hosted its 8th annual Taste At The Beach
Beach charity – Torrance Memorial volunteers Present largest ever check
Beach charity Torrance Memorial volunteers Present largest ever check The Torrance Memorial Medical Center’s Volunteer Auxiliary presented a check for $300,000 to the Torrance Memorial Foundation at its 2017 Auxiliary Board Installation Lunch. The donation is the auxiliary’s largest ever donation and will go toward improvements in the North Patient Tower. The more than 900-member […]
Awards honor Hermosa Beach’s emerging leaders
Surveying the crowd at Leadership Hermosa’s annual emerging leader awards ceremony, Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance) noted that the nominees represented much “of what makes Hermosa Beach so special.” Muratsuchi pointed out faces in the crowd, and mentioned following the quest of nominee Morgan Sliff to surf for 366 days in a year (and counting). […]
Hersman, Manhattan Beach council candidate, tires of city ‘pushing things down the road’
Nancy Hersman first encountered the proposed Manhattan Beach skate park as a member of the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission. When she joined the Planning Commission in 2014, its location was still being debated. Now, as a candidate for City Council, she marvels at the fact that that the project is nearing completion after a […]
Hermosa Beach urges residents to report noise from airplanes overhead
The noise in Andrea Valcourt’s east Hermosa home started with a few planes around 10 p.m. It gradually got worse, and at one point, she said, planes were flying overhead every 15 minutes. The noise penetrated her doors “Sometimes it sounds like planes are coming right into the bedroom or the living room, which […]