Parkland Conservancy resumes bluffs’ wildflower work

by Garth Meyer Work to create a hillside of wildflowers along the Esplanade in Redondo Beach received a boost in August with a $79,000 grant to the South Bay Parkland Conservancy (SBPC). The money, given by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, will be used for continued habitat restoration on 6.9 acres of the slope […]

EDUCATION – School board forum addresses hate crimes, parcel tax

by Mark McDermott  The three candidates who appeared at last week’s League of Women Voters school board candidate forum were largely in agreement regarding many of the issues facing the Manhattan Beach Unified School District, including the need to aggressively counter the recent spate of hate crimes on MBUSD campuses, and to arrive at a […]

“Hinterland” – Homeland [MOVIE REVIEW]

The figure of a lone elongated man photographed as though a painting by Egon Schiele or Max Oppenheimer, on a dark palette without background, gets closer and closer. Color and tone create the setting, looking very much like the post-apocalyptic World War I paintings of Otto Dix and Georg Grosz. It is 1920. The war […]