Good as Gold: Klineman, Ross win AVP Manhattan Beach Open
Photos by Ray Vidal by Paul Teetor The A-Team is winning everything lately – including the name game. When April Ross and Alix Klineman became partners in late 2017, they immediately asked their thousands of Instagram followers to suggest a nickname for the new team. They were soon flooded with a digital downpour, and one […]
Easy Reader Letters to the Editor Aug 26, 2021: Vaccination questions, school masks, trees in the city
Dear ER: Think Dear ER: Lindsey Burrell is the wife of my nephew (“another surge in the ICU,” ER August 19, 202). I think about her and her co-workers everyday and pray for them. I have worked in a hospital and I know how hard nurses work on a “normal” day. I really wish […]
Jacobs 422 shop repurposed, surf heritage to be honored
by Kevin Cody Retired surfboard shaper Hap Jacob’s legendary 422 Pacific Coast Highway surf shop, in Hermosa Beach, is to become the new office of Paolucci, Salling & Martin Communication Arts, which was previously located in El Segundo. The 422 address entered surfing history in the mid-60s, when Jacobs named his high performance, narrow tailed […]
Police recognize good drivers when that’s what data shows
by Garth Meyer Just 6.5 percent of 13,366 drivers exceeded the 25 mph speed limit on the 400 block of Pearl Street between Aug. 9 through 16, according to Redondo Beach Police Captain Jeff Mendence. The data was gathered by a police trailer radar, which displays the speeds of oncoming cars. The average, according to […]
Redondo students return to campus, COVID cases increase, as expected
by Garth Meyer Redondo Beach public schools students are back for the 2021-22 year, fully in-person for the first time since the start of the pandemic, but enrollment is down 237 students from those on campus and online at this time last year. Fewer kids translates to fewer teachers hired for the new year. “We’re […]
Strata and Cuisine
I don’t often find myself comparing restaurant offerings to geology, but that’s just the metaphor that went through my mind when I had dinner last week at The Strand House. I have been there over the course of a decade, and through the tenure of at least five chefs, each of whom arrived with their […]
“Only Murders in the Building” – It’s a killer [TELEVISION REVIEW]
“Only Murders in the Building,” an original episodic series from the minds of writers Steve Martin and John Hoffman, delivers a charming, funny, occasionally over-the-top, mindlessly entertaining evening (or since it’s streaming, morning, afternoon, or late night) in half hour chunks. The building in question? The venerable Arconia is Manhattan. The murder victim? An unpleasant […]