Leadership group’s ‘Market 90254’ puts Hermosa Beach business on display
In their efforts to lobby city council members for measures to increase daytime foot traffic, businesses in Hermosa Beach sometimes complain of feeling hidden in plain sight. This weekend, dozens of them will have a chance to be seen, all in the same place. This Saturday, Leadership Hermosa will host Market 90254, a gathering […]
Best of the Beach 2017 Comedy Club: Comedy & Magic
Even the late “The Merchant of Venom” Don Rickles would have had a hard time finding something unkind to say about the Comedy and Magic Club and its owner mike Lacey. For nearly five decades Comedy and Magic has worked to erase the image of comedy clubs as seedy bars with bad sound systems and strippers. The club is a Cathedral to Comedy.
Cash in the barrell: Cash Cherry gave up his Rubik’s Cube for a surfboard
Cash in the barrell Cash Cherry gave up his Rubik’s Cube for a surfboard. Now he’s applying his problem solving skills to competitive surfing and shaping boards Cash Cherry may sound like a nickname. It’s not. “We named him Cash because we always pay in cash,” said his mom Hillary said. […]
Summer Calendar 2017 – Beach Food & Wine Events
Beach food Summer Food & Wine events The 9th Annual Redondo Beach Fire Department Community Spaghetti Dinner Saturday, May 13 At the Woman’s Club of Redondo Beach’s Historical Clubhouse, 400 S. Broadway, Redondo Beach. A donation of $15 gets you a spaghetti dinner, cooked and served by the Redondo Beach Firefighters, plus salad, bread […]
South Bay Boardriders crown Kings of the Beach
Gallery photos by Steve Gaffney. The South Bay Boardriders “King of the Beach” end of season contest, hosted by Spyder Surfboards last Saturday, started smooth with sizeable swell and swiftly progressed into the some of the more rugged wind conditions the contest has ever seen. The talent on the beach, however, sliced through the wind and […]
Sophisticated Snoop 2017 – the Disser home
The Disser home Tree Section Cape Cod Photo by Liz Chalmers As you walk up to this traditional Cape Cod, you immediately feel welcome and at ease. The cheery entrance showcases a striking hallway with lantern lighting and crisscross molding above the doorways. One of the exceptional features of this home is the high, coffered […]
Sophisticated Snoop 2017 – the Tuck-Sherman home
The Tuck-Sherman home Tree Section European Impression Photo by Liz Chalmers The façade of this distinguished home is indicative of what’s behind its walls – an enchanting space that makes you feel you’ve stepped back in time. Provencal in nature, its ambiance is enhanced by architectural details that include polished wood paneling, floors and molding, […]
Redondo Beach Sportfishing Pier repair talks held to Fall
The future of the Redondo Beach Sportfishing Pier, affectionately known as Polly’s Pier, is in question after inspections by city contractors found “several urgent defective and deficient pier components.” However, the Harbor Commission has decided, following recommendations from staff, that they would prefer to wait until after the summer to decide on a future course […]
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story – eternally yours [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story” is documentary filmmaker Daniel Raim’s ode to a couple whose greatest triumph was their relationship. Amusingly and appropriately told using archival film footage, interviews, home movies, and storyboards by the talented Patrick Mate, “Harold and Lillian” is about Harold Michelson, one of Hollywood’s premier storyboard artists, and […]
South Bay arts calendar for May 12 to 18
Friday, May 12 With beehive hairdos “Hairspray,” the Broadway musical, based on the 1988 film by crazy John Waters, is being presented by the El Camino College Theatre Department in the Campus Theatre with performances at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, plus Sunday at 3 p.m. Also May 19 and 20 at 8 p.m. […]
Mother’s Day show at Saint Rocke with jazz pianist Bob Mamet
Moods and Melodies Jazz pianist Bob Mamet plays a Mother’s Day show at Saint Rocke Bob Mamet just can’t stay away, and that’s a good thing. The jazz pianist, who grew up in Chicago, where he’s again been living for about six years now, spent three decades in L.A. and about a third of that […]