A Home For Homie [restaurant review]
Over the years a fair number of people with eccentric visions have been attracted to a long, narrow space next to the Kettle in downtown Manhattan Beach. Since 2005 this has been an Indonesian restaurant, a French bistro that also served tacos, a cafe specializing in chocolate, and a surf shop that also sold burritos. […]
South Bay Community Calendar 4-18-19
Thursday, April 18 H.E.L.P. Workshop Health and Eldercare Law Programs present a series of workshops to empower adults and their families. 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Main Library 2nd floor Meeting Room, 303 N. Pacific Coast Highway, Redondo Beach. The RB Library is now on facebook.com/RedondoBeachLibrary. For updated information visit redondo.org/library. Happy hour April Happy […]
Sign of the times: group’s totem taken, held for ransom
It started with a car that wouldn’t start. And it continued an internet feud that is unlikely to end any time soon. Last month, a sign for the Facebook group Advocates for Hermosa Beach disappeared. Then, last week, Hermosa Beach resident Trent Larson, an active member of the group, received a letter in the […]
Hermosa Beach About Town
Mama D’s sign down, for now Mama D’s opened its Hermosa location earlier this month, in the Pacific Coast Highway storefront long occupied by Boston Wildflour Pizza, and more recently by Fabio’s Pizza and Italian Restaurant. The restaurant announced its presence by painting the south wall of the stripmall, which it shares with Best Donuts […]
Mural to draw on Hermosa Beach’s bohemian roots
One night in 1962, Hermosa Beach resident George Schmeltzer took in a production of Edward Albee’s “The Sandbox.” To see it, he didn’t have to trek to Hollywood or downtown Los Angeles. He didn’t even need to go east of Hermosa Avenue. Schmeltzer saw it at The Insomniac, a cafe, bookstore and folk music venue […]
South Bay art calendar for April 18 to 24
Thursday, April 18 Celebrity history in the making “Douglas Kirkland,” an exhibition of over 60 photographs of Hollywood stars and others, is on view through Sunday at the Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 W. Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes. But the legendary photographer is on hand at the Art Center today (Thursday) at 11 a.m. […]