Redondo ousted by Mater Dei in girls volleyball State Regional semifinal
Redondo’s girls volleyball team suffered only its fourth loss of the season, but two of them came at the hands of top-seeded Mater Dei, the final one ending the Sea Hawks season in the semifinals of the CIF-SoCal regional Open Division. Redondo (35-4), who came off an 11-day period of not playing a match to […]
Mira Costa captures CIF-SS girls tennis title; boys water polo team falls in finals
Mira Costa girls tennis coach Joe Ciasulli knew beating a team as talented as Dana Hills three times in one season would be tough. Yet his team won its first section championship since the Mustangs captured the 3A titles in 1975-76 with a sweep of all nine doubles matches in a 13-5 victory at The […]
Food, family, fate
Adam Aro, Sara Gabriele and the making of Gabi James restaurant When Adam Aro steered his houseboat into the slip right next to Sara Gabriele’s houseboat one July day on Lake Shasta in 2008, he had little idea what would ensue, much less than ten years later he and this beautiful stranger would […]
Hermosa resident Whitney Anderson is a co-founder of a socially conscious theater group
Dynamo on stage In “Island on the Land,” his iconic 1946 history of Southern California, the writer Carey McWilliams defined the geographical boundaries of Hollywood as extending “from the summit of the Hollywood Hills on the north to Beverly Boulevard on the south; from Hoover Street on the east to Doheny Drive on the west.” […]
Mira Costa falls in second round of CIF-SS Division 6 playoffs; PV and North advance
Facing an undefeated South Hills team for a second time this season, Mira Costa narrowed the margin but still fell short ending its 2018 football campaign. Playing the the CIF Southern Section Division 6 quarterfinals Mira Costa (7-5) lost to visiting South Hills (12-0), the top seeded team in the division, by a score of […]
Artesia’s Kurt Hardware to close
It’s been a bittersweet week for Leland Hyde, the owner of Kurt TrueValue Hardware. On Halloween, he announced his intention to close the business that had been in his family for 32 years and, in his words, to embark on a new chapter. Kurt Hardware is planned to close at the end of January. “It’s […]
HBAC aims to keep gallery open
For dozens of South Bay artists, the Hermosa Beach Artist Collective has been a place to work, a place to show, and a place to collaborate. With a major fundraiser set for this Saturday night, they are addressing a more basic need: keeping a roof over their head. The collective is a group of artists […]