About Town Redondo: Invention Convention, J.V. cheerleaders, smoke shop busts
11 RBUSD students advance to Invention Convention nationals Kindergartners through eighth-graders from the Redondo Unified School District competed in the 2025 Henry Ford Invention Convention, with 72 local students advancing to Southern California Regionals on March 29 at El Camino College. Up against 652 students at the Torrance campus, 11 of the 66 inventions advancing […]
Redondo Beach city council sets strategic goals, mayor skeptical
The Redondo Beach city council took in a strategic planning session April 30, assembling a list for staff to focus on for the next 10-12 months. New strategic goals included increasing Floor Area Ratio (buildable space) on Artesia Boulevard, Measure FP matters for the coming new police and fire stations, and continuing to be a […]
Beach Cities Health District to seek proposals for old Redondo hospital
by Garth Meyer After a failed bond measure and a disbanded public-private partnership, the focus has shifted at Beach Cities Health District for its proposed Healthy Living Campus. The partnership to build an assisted living complex and tear down the old hospital ends May 1. In its place, the health district prepares a new request […]
“Ainadamar,” an opera about Spanish writer Federico García Lorca
The tragic tale of Federico García Lorca Pools of sorrow at LA Opera’s “Ainadamar” by Bondo Wyszpolski Osvaldo Golijov’s funereal opera, which leans heavily towards dance-theater, is also something of a memory play, in which an aging actress, Margarita Xirgu (soprano Ana María Martinez), recalls her friend and collaborator, the Spanish poet and dramatist Federico […]