Highlights from Manhattan Beach Fireworks show

Hundreds of people came to Manhattan Beach Sunday night for the annualManhattan Beach Holiday Fireworks show, sponsored each year by Skechers and produced by Pete Moffett Here’s a short video of the awesome finale. 

Costa finally beats Rolling Hills prep

by Paul Teetor “We finally beat Rolling Hills Prep,” a jubilant Mira Costa Coach Neal Perlmutter said moments after the Mustangs defeated the Huskies, 50 to 49, in the Pacific Shores Tournament, hosted by Mira Costa on Saturday, Dec. 3  “When I came here Rolling Hills prep was one of the top programs in the […]

Manhattan Beach Coordinating Council named its students of the month

The Manhattan Beach Coordinating Council named its students of the month at its November luncheon, ( left to right) Isla Sellers (Robinson Elementary) Eve Prodromides (American Martyrs), Brent Torres (Mira Costa High School) Sandra Baxter-Nuzzi (Manhattan Beach Middle School),Naomi Abraham (Grand View Elementary), and Grayson Nugent (Robinson Elementary). Grand View Elementary student of the month […]

TRAVEL: Paris’s most walkable & photogenic neighborhoods

The city of Paris is broken up into 20 districts, or arrondissements, as they’re known. Ask someone to meet and they might mention a cafe “in the 11th,” or a park in the “19th.” They can be a little hard to follow. The 1st district is in-between the 7th and 8th, while 4 borders 5 and 12. […]

Surfboard shaper Jarvis, woodworker Herwegh open Gallery 208 in Manhattan Beach

The former Third Gallery location, at 208 Manhattan Beach Blvd., in downtown Manhattan Beach, is now actually a gallery. Third Gallery, a women’s boutique, recently moved from its longtime Manhattan Beach Boulevard location a few blocks south to the former Cotton Cargo boutique location, at 815 Manhattan Avenue. Cotton Cargo, which opened in 1979, closed […]