Garden in the City [Restaurant review]
A few years ago, I spent an afternoon in a Thai culinary garden learning about the sight, scent, and flavor of the herbs that make that cuisine so magnificent. I tasted the world’s spiciest basil, something that is so pungent that even Thais wear eye protection when cooking it, as well as fruity pandan leaves, […]
MBPD Explorer program looking for a few good kids

Manhattan Beach Police Department Sgt. Tim Zins remembers what it was like to be 16. The Manhattan Beach native had no real idea what he wanted to do with his life. “I was kind of in that lost land,” Zins recalled. “Okay, do I want to go to college? Go to El Camino? What am […]
2 Minute Review Featuring Captain Kidds In Redondo Beach (Video)

In this episode of Civic Couch’s “2 Minute Review” they head to King Harbor in Redondo Beach to take a look at Captian Kidds restaurant. Host Steve Napolitano interviews Captain Kidd’s operating partner Chris Bredesen as they tour the Redondo Beach restaurant.
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Hermosa Beach Pier lit up to celebrate 2028 Olympics

The Hermosa Beach pier was lit up in rainbow colors Tuesday and Wednesday evenings to celebrate the awarding of the 2028 Olympic Games to the City of Los Angeles.
Miller sentenced to nine months in jail after Judge rejects plea for probation
Manhattan Beach resident Jim Miller was sentenced to nine months jail time Monday morning in United States District Court. Miller, 68, a former attorney for the Securities Exchange Commission and later for Body Glove International, was convicted in June on five counts of wire fraud and four counts of filing false tax returns after a […]
Arrested and tried in Hermosa Beach

…and a bad apple or two “A Few Good Men” opens Saturday at Surf City Theatre in Hermosa Before it was released as a film in 1992, “A Few Good Men” was a play by Aaron Sorkin, perhaps the first important work in what has been a noteworthy career as a writer not only for […]
‘It’ borrows from nostalgia to induce nightmares [MOVIE REVIEW]

Ryan Rojas/www.cinemacy.com In theaters now is the horror movie It, adapted from the 1,138 page Stephen King novel of the same name. The story of a small town tormented by a demon in the form of a killer clown has already broken box office records, scaring up an estimated $117.1 million. This has made It not […]