Spotlight on ice – Debut of Wizard of Oz
Promenade Ice Chalet
Spotlight on business – Peninsula Wine Walk
Palos Verdes Chamber of Commerce
Spotlight on medicine – Record Breaking Donations Raised of $200K
For The Cancer Support Community
Spotlight on music – Wilson Phillips on the Meadows
Music on the Meadows on July 4
South Bay Community Calendar 8-1-19
Music, Sidewalk sale, Surf Festival, CPR, Let’s Hike, free fitness, birds at the beach, volunteer
Letters to the Editor 8-1-19
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The Emoji House war: A neighborhood feud erupts in El Porto
Susan Wieland had been away for a work conference since the end of May, but neighbors sent her the photo. Even so, upon returning to her home in the El Porto neighborhood of Manhattan Beach on the night of June 8, she wept when she actually saw her neighbor’s house. The house, a two-level […]
Day, Flint dominate, Budinger, Patterson break through at HB AVP
There were two very different endings Sunday afternoon for two local favorites with huge fan clubs – Sean Rosenthal of Redondo Beach and Emily Day of Torrance. After a long, grueling day of monster blocks, diving sets and laser-like kill shots in front of a standing-room-only crowd at the AVP Hermosa Open – the overflow […]
MB Tennis Open proves value of city Parks and Rec program
The Manhattan Beach tennis pipeline is starting to produce good players – even tournament-tested, college-level championship players – thanks to a comprehensive Parks and Rec kids program that enrolls several hundred beginners every year. Local legend Maegan Manasse started her career at Live Oak Park, dominated SoCal high school play while at Mira Costa and […]
Redondo Beach About Town
How to get Teen Choice tickets Approximately 3,000 passes to next weekend’s Teen Choice Awards are being set aside for residents of Hermosa, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach, taking place on the sand south of the Pier on Aug. 11. Local residents can obtain wristbands allowing admission on Thursday, Aug. 8 and Friday, Aug. 9, […]
Manhattan Beach The storied El Tarasco
The north Manhattan institution celebrates its 50th year, unchanged Story and photos The story of El Tarasco can be found on the back of its menu, whose recipes were created by Celia Palomo when she and husband Moises opened the Rosecrans Avenue restaurant in 1969, two blocks up from the beach in El Porto. Their […]
Palos Verdes Aye aye, Admiral Risty
Gathering for a final farewell photo last week were Admiral Risty owners Jan and Wayne Judah and employees (front row, standing) Marcus Pizano, Mike Fish, Gaby Pizano, Samuel Garcia, Sonia Valdez, and Noe Doval; and (second row) Scott Lee, Lucy Tevosian, Angelina Beccerra, Manual Sanchez, Martha Rodriquez, Juventino Escobedo, Jose Martinez, Juan Duran; and (back […]
Hermosa Beach About Town
The Kids Strike Back: Battle of the Bands returns to RB Performing Arts Center The second edition of Redondo’s Youth Battle of the Bands, presented by the Redondo Beach Police Department, B2 Insurance and the Los Angeles Kings, kicks off this Saturday, Aug. 3, at 7 p.m., at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center. […]
Locals get inside track to Teen Choice tickets
Hermosa Beach will soon provide the world with what may be its only chance to see pop colossus OneRepublic perform their hit “Rescue Me” in shouting distance of an actual lifeguard tower. The Teen Choice Awards, a youth-oriented awards ceremony drawing some of the biggest and most marketable stars on the planet, is coming to […]
Circus Vargas returns to the South Bay
Razzle-dazzle under the big top The circus wagons are back in town photos and story Circus Vargas wanders the globe, or at least our little corner of it, pounding in stakes and pulling up stakes as it visits town after town, year after year. This is the company’s 50th anniversary, and they’re paying homage not […]