Chasing the perfect cup
If Jeff Melodia’s caddy had preferred tea, he would be in a different business right now. Melodia had finished playing golf in Hawaii and started chatting with the caddy cleaning his clubs, a friendly fellow named Lee. The conversation was sufficiently interesting that they decided to continue it over a cup of coffee, and the […]
Ron and Joan: A love story
Early in 1966, at the graduate library in the English Department at UCLA, Ron Arias found himself being dismantled, with playful ease, by a woman he’d just met. Arias was only 25 but already worldly and a little bit brash. He’d grown up in a military family and attended part of high school […]
The Kid’s Alright: South Bay native Gavin Heaney has a new album shaped by the changes that have rocked his life
Matich Heaney, not quite one year old, was sitting on the ground in the backyard of his Hermosa Beach home. His legs were extended wide in front of him, and his head was bobbing to some unheard music. The morning sun was peeking through the trees. Matich’s father, Gavin Heaney, sat at a table nearby, […]
Video of Hermosa Beach’s Pier Plaza stirs controversy
A video produced on behalf of Hermosa Beach, intended to depict a typical Saturday night on Pier Plaza, has divided residents and business owners, with some claiming that the video was an agenda-driven distortion of conditions in the city’s downtown. The video condenses footage captured between roughly 5:30 p.m. on Saturday Sept. 9 till 2:30 […]
Manhattan Beach school board forms parcel tax subcommittee
The Manhattan Beach Unified School District Board of Education last week formed a subcommittee to explore the possibility of putting a parcel tax on the ballot in either June or November of next year. Under state filing deadlines for elections, the district has until January to decide on a June ballot measure. At its […]
South Bay Community Calendar 10-12-17
Do you have any plans this weekend?