Cajun rages back on a different side of its old street

The sound of Cajun music can be heard on Pier Avenue again, but it’s coming from the other side of the street. After seven years in two different locations, Stephen Domingue has reopened the Original Ragin’ Cajun on the same block where he started. Domingue left Louisiana in 1988 and got a job as the […]

Supervised release for Hermosa Beach bar owner on laundering charges

Jeff Bellandi, a Hermosa resident and co-owner of Waterman’s restaurant on Pier Plaza, was sentenced to three years of supervised release earlier this month over his involvement in an international gambling and drug trafficking ring. In January, Bellandi pleaded guilty to illegal gambling and money laundering conspiracy in a San Diego federal court. Based on […]

Hip-Hop heart-warmer Patti Cake$ is stylish and sweet [MOVIE REVIEW]

by Ryan Rojas/www.cinemacy.com What if 8 Mile starred a girl? This is essentially Patti Cake$, a Cinderella story of an over-weight underdog who tries to up-end herself from a dead end life in her New Jersey hometown by following her dream of becoming a rap superstar. Premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and acquired by […]

Seven new administrators head up 17-18 school year at MBUSD

There are a lot of new faces within the Manhattan Beach Unified School District as the school year commences. According to a staffing report given to the MBUSD Board of Education by Brian Lucas, assistant superintendent of human resources, 62 vacancies were filled between the end of the last school year and now. The new […]