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Beach Camp & Day Camp BeachSports BeachSports, winner of 2025’s “Best Kids Beach Camp” and 2024’s “Best Kids Day Camp” awards, came back this year to sweep both categories. From ocean safety and surfing to skateboarding and playing volleyball, Beach Sports offers kids aged 4-13 a variety of day and summer camps in Redondo Beach, Hermosa […]
Private Preschool La Primera Preschool Children from 18 months to 6 years discover the world at their own pace at La Primera, a preschool serving the South Bay since 1963. The preschool’s play-based learning fosters children’s intellectual and physical growth through art, science, crafts, woodworking, cooking and gardening. The preschool has 26 teachers for its […]
Home Staging In Home Harmony “The whole point is to draw in the buyer and make them fall in love with the property,” said Sandy Kenney, owner of In Home Harmony. The company’s five-person team stages both vacant and occupied properties throughout the South Bay since 2010. One day is often all it takes for […]
Best House Painter TKO Painting Four-peat Best of the Beach champion TKO Painting has met the interior, exterior painting and cabinet refinishing needs of the beach cities, Torrance and El Segundo for more than two decades.. “I just called my father this morning, I was so proud, and my dad’s 90 years old. I’m like, […]
Grocery store Trader Joe’s Trader Joe’s has made grocery runs less a chore and more a ritual with internationally-inspired products, approachable prices, and employees who actually seem happy to be there. A measure of its customer devotion is the Trader Joe mini tote bag, introduced in 2024. Releases of new embroidered designs with limited drops […]
Kids camps Adventureplex The first things kids see when they arrive at AdverturePlex are two 35-foot-tall rock climbing walls and a 20-foot-high ropes course. Inside, the find, a colorful, five-level play structure “If I was a little kid and I walked in and saw that [the five-level play structure] I would have been really excited,” […]
by Alessandra Haddick Hundreds of people charged into 63-degree Pacific waters along the Manhattan Beach shoreline Sunday morning, February 1, but the cold shock was nothing compared to what the event’s youngest honorees face every day. The third annual CT3 Foundation Polar Plunge, hosted by former Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Chris Taylor and his wife […]
by Alessandra Haddick Four years ago, crews hauled 70 tons of invasive ice plant off the sand in North Manhattan Beach. In its place, native dune grasses now ripple in the ocean wind, their deep roots quietly building a natural seawall one grain of sand at a time. The Manhattan Beach Dune Restoration Project, led […]
by Alessandra Haddick At first glance, the massive underwater world of Avatar seems galaxies away from the South Bay. But for Szilvia Gogh, it was just minutes from home. For more than two years, Gogh reported to a 250,000 gallon tank in Manhattan Beach Studios, helping to bring James Cameron’s underwater vision to life. Gogh […]
by Mira Abrams Over 50 South Bay artists participated in the 2025 Water & Wood exhibit, which helps raise funds for Indivisible Arts. The opening reception was Saturday, August 23, at Resin Gallery. The inaugural Water & Wood exhibit was in 2016. “A bunch of artists rented this place for two weeks, and we realized […]
by Allison Sutton Training partners Zach Jirkovsky, Jake Glick and Anthony Perez were in a dead heat when they ran up the beach to the finish line in the Rock2Rock paddleboard race, after having exchanged leads throughout the 22-mile Catalina Channel crossing, from Two Harbors to Cabrillo Beach. That’s when the shoving match began, with […]
by Eve Celia Rosenblum Just three seconds separated the top three runners in the 8th Annual Chevron Manhattan Beach Mile on Sunday, July 20 at Live Oak Park. The race takes place along the same course, and just prior to the Chevron Manhattan Beach Grand Prix. Arturs Medveds, of Latvia, took first place, with a […]