Manhattan Beach Mayor Stern launches Kindness Initiative
by Mark McDermott On the morning of May 22, 2020, Maureen McBride opened up her boutique in downtown Manhattan Beach, Tabula Rasa Essentials, for the first time in ten weeks. Those ten weeks had been rough. McBride had endured many sleepless nights. The world had been turned upside down. The pandemic had launched its ravaging […]
Inglewood principal Mendoza, Redondo Beach refugee activists Gabriel, Katie-Jay Scott Stauring victims of auto accident
by Kevin Cody The three people who died in a four-car collision last Tuesday evening at the intersection of Marine Avenue, and Pacific Coast Highway, in Manhattan Beach, have been identified as Christian Mendoza, 48. Gabriel Stauring, 55, and his wife Katie-Jay Scott Stauring, 40, all of Redondo Beach. Mendoza was the newly appointed principal […]
“Silent Night” – If only [MOVIE REVIEW]
Ho! Ho! Ho! Just in time for the holidays writer/director Camille Griffin gives us a depressing look at the end of times. Nell and Simon have gathered together their oldest friends for the annual Christmas celebration at their lush estate in the countryside. Everything is decorated as perfectly as you’d imagine an upper class English […]