Hermosa Beach City Manager Sergio Gonzalez has an old career in a new town

Hermosa Beach voted to contract for fire services with Los Angeles County on April 25. One week later, South Pasadena decided to pull out of a firefighting partnership with three neighboring San Gabriel Valley cities. Sergio Gonzalez, who had his first day as Hermosa Beach City Manager last month, had just finished his tenure in […]
Hermosa Beach Police Beat

Motorist arrested An intoxicated woman was arrested on suspicion of obstructing an officer in northeast Hermosa last week, after she allegedly almost ran over a skateboarder. On the evening of June 15, police received reports of a woman driving with part of her vehicle on the sidewalk, and nearly hitting a passing skateboarder, according to […]
Pizza Coast Highway – Review of Mama D’s Redondo

Architecture creates expectations, and it can start communicating something about a business at first glance. You could be illiterate and still know what El Torito serves because of the hacienda look, and the same is true of places like Izakaya in Manhattan Beach, Captain Kidd’s, or any Denny’s in the world. That instant recognition of […]
Friday Kahlo: Sensuality and Sorrow

Long Beach Opera presents “Frida” – a review We may think that artists, highly regarded in the present, have always been recognized as a breed apart and above, but fame is fickle even when the talent seems obvious. In the years after her death in 1954, Frida Kahlo lingered in the immense shadow of her […]