Best of the Beach 2017, Best Art Gallery: Riley Arts Gallery
Riley Arts Gallery is partial to local artists, creating a nurturing environment for many South Bay-based artists. Their mix of fine art, prints, photography allow local artists to express themselves in multiple mediums. Riley Arts Gallery features the work of John Van Hamersveld, Brent Broza, Tom Everhart and architect-turned-artist Michael Murphy, as well as […]
Best of the Beach 2017, Best Local Underage Band: 11Echo
While most teenage bands break-up before they play their first live note, the South Bay’s 11Echo, formed from a group of musical prodigies taught at the Coast Music Conservatory in Hermosa Beach, have won their third consecutive Best Underage Band BOB since forming in 2015. Band members are the jazzy vocalist Kira Levin, Wes Montgomery-inspired […]
This Year’s Model: The Pastel Society of So. Cal in Torrance
An Oil Change, a Tune-Up, and a Work of Art Wall-to-wall with the Pastel Society of Southern California It’s 7:30 on a weekday morning and, like most of us, you’ve just brought your car into the South Bay Lexus Service Center in Torrance. It’ll only take 45 minutes, maybe an hour, so after you’ve poured […]
South Bay art calendar for April 13 – 19
Thursday, April 13 Grab your board The Hermosa Beach Historical Society is presenting a talk on the history of surf photography with John Grannis, son of LeRoy Grannis, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Hermosa Beach Museum, 710 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach. The elder Grannis transformed surf photography in the 1960s and captured its […]