A name change, new places for Thai, Hawaiian, Chinese and Mexican  

Common Complaint, Technological Response… Look at any survey of diners and one of the top complaints will be uncomfortably noisy restaurants. Since my email is at the end of each of these columns I hear this a lot, often with admonitions that I should tell people how loud restaurants are. I frequently do mention this, […]

City of Champions

El Segundo honors Lakers President Jeanie Buss in its annual Champions of Business ceremony At the City of El Segundo’s 2017 Champions of Business Celebration, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong made a slight error during his acceptance speech of the evening’s title award. Soon-Shiong, who rose to prominence as a biotech entrepreneur, gave a compelling address on […]

Soon-Shiong’s promise

  Even before moving the Los Angeles Times to El Segundo, Patrick Soon-Shiong was drawing national attention to his adopted city Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s decision, after purchasing the Los Angeles Times in June,  to move the newspaper from its century-old headquarters in downtown Los Angeles to El Segundo garnered national attention. But that is not […]

George the Fourth

George Renfro, a fourth generation El Segundo native, hopes to keep his hometown true to itself through art and orneriness   George Renfro Sr. arrived in El Segundo sometime in the 1910’s, not long after Standard Oil purchased 840 acres of the former Rancho Sausal Redondo and around the time the city incorporated in 1916. […]