Surfside Swimmers conquer Catalina Channel
Shortly before midnight, on Monday, August 16, five members of the Surfside Swim Club embarked from Doctor’s Cove on Catalina Island for a relay swim across the Catalina Channel. The following morning, after swimming two, one-hour rotations each, through the night, the team swam ashore together at Sacred Cove, near Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes. […]
Luxury Rally Club and wine at Rolling Hills Country Club, Rancho Palos Verdes
This year’s annual Auto and Wine exhibition, co-hosted by the Rolling Hills Country Club and the Luxury Rally Club, featured nearly 100 wineries and an equal number of the world’s most coveted automobiles. The event was staged Saturday, September 4 on Rolling Hills’ driving range, overlooking the LA Basin and surrounding mountains. Luxury Rally Club […]
Luxury Rally Club Auto Exhibit, Wine tasting at Rolling Hills Country Club
Photos by John Perchulyn This year’s annual Auto and Wine exhibition, co-hosted by the Rolling Hills Country Club and the Luxury Rally Club, featured nearly 100 wineries and an equal number of the world’s most coveted automobiles. The event was staged Saturday, September 4 on Rolling Hills’ driving range, overlooking the LA Basin and surrounding […]
Hometown Fair brings community back together this weekend
Manhattan Beach celebrated the return of the Hometown Fair this weekend with all of the simple pleasures that have made it Manhattan’s character defining event. Photos by Kevin Cody
‘Sounds of silence’ music festival Saturday on the Sand in Hermosa Beach
Barley, Latch Key Kid, and Cubensis are among a dozen bands performing Saturday evening (Oct. 2) on the sand at the Hermosa Beach pier, in what is billed as the first ever “silent” beach concert. The audience listens through hi-fidelity headphones to the performers on five different stages, playing simultaneously. The headphones have five channels […]
Ritter was old school, all in paddleboarder
by Kevin Cody During the Catalina Classic Paddleboard Race pre race meeting last month, at Buffalo Park on Catalina Island, race director Buddy Bohn asked for a moment of silence in memory of Tim Ritter. Ritter competed in the 32-mile race from Catalina to Manhattan Beach nine times. But as Bohn and others have […]
Tour de Pier in Manhattan Beach sets goal at $10 million 10 years
Tour de Pier nears $10 million Over 1,000 cyclists helped raise over $1 million at the 9th Annual Manhattan Beach Tour De Pier on Sunday. Team Uncle Kory was the largest overall fundraiser, with $160,156. Bay Club spin instructor PK Kessel and his spin class was the largest fundraiser among individuals. The Mira Costa and […]
Manhattan Beach Police chaplain invokes Isaiah at September 11 Memorial
by Garth Meyer A woman walked up in an American Airlines flight attendant’s uniform. A young man stood in a Pat Tillman Rose Bowl jersey with a two-year-old at his shoulder. A nine-year-old girl touched a steel girder that stood at the World Trade Center until Sept. 11, 2001. They were all part of a […]
Support public servants, Hermosa Beach Mayor Justin Massey urges at September 11 wreath laying ceremony
A September 11 wreath laying ceremony at the Hermosa Beach September 11 Memorial began with retired Hermosa detective Saul Saldana, of the Los Angles Police Emerald Society, performing “Amazing Grace,” followed by Mayor Justin Massey invoking everyone to show support in their daily lives for first responders, city employees, religious leaders and others who dedicate […]
Cycling activist Katz remembered during bike path ride
by Kevin Cody South Bay cycling activist Julian Katz was remembered on Sunday during a memorial bike ride organized by the South Bay Bicycle Coalition, and led by State Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi. The ride started at Torrance Beach and followed the bike path to the Manhattan Beach pier. Approximately 50 bicyclists, riding in small groups […]
Fans are nice during return of 16th Street Labor Day Weekend Volleyball tourney in Hermosa Beach
by Kevin Cody For Hermosa Beach volleyball fans, the recent Tokyo Olympics and the AVP Manhattan Beach Open were just preludes to the 63rd Annual 16th Street Labor Day Weekend 4-Man Volleyball Tournament. The tourney’s bragging rights equal the Olympics’, at least locally. The Calcutta purse exceeds the AVP’s. And fan fervor exceeds both, though […]
Beach City Health District to vote on Healthy Living Campus EIR in Redondo Beach
by Kevin Cody [UPDATE: Wednesday, September 8, 9 p.m.] The Beach Cities Health District Board of Directors unanimously voted to certify the Healthy Living Campus Environmental Impact Report at its Wednesday night meeting. The vote followed nearly three hours of public comment, all of it in opposition to the proposed 11-acre, $374 million, 254,700 square […]
Hermosa Beach Fiesta focuses on ‘local’ with Unsung Hero Awards
by Kevin Cody The Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce underscored the word local in its rebranded Fiesta Hermosa Locale this weekend by recognizing local “Unsung Heroes” at the start of the fiesta, on Friday evening. The awards were presented between band performances in The Garden, an adaptation of the popular Beer Garden from pre pandemic […]
Memorial for ‘Merc’ McFarlane
by Kevin Cody John McFarlane spent 10 years in a lifeguard tower on Torrance Beach. “It was the fastest 10 years of my life and my best years as a lifeguard,” he said in 2014, when he was inducted into the Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame. Following his retirement in 1983 McFarlane was presented […]
Comedy and Magic Club plans comeback in Hermosa Beach
by Kevin Cody Among Hermosa Beach residents’ foremost, post pandemic concerns is whether or not Comedy and Magic Club will reopen. For four decades, Comedy and Magic has been the anchor point to Hermosa’s cultural identity. The Lighthouse may be better known, but Comedy and Magic’s contributions to Hermosa, and to popular culture, have been […]
Jacobs 422 shop repurposed, surf heritage to be honored
by Kevin Cody Retired surfboard shaper Hap Jacob’s legendary 422 Pacific Coast Highway surf shop, in Hermosa Beach, is to become the new office of Paolucci, Salling & Martin Communication Arts, which was previously located in El Segundo. The 422 address entered surfing history in the mid-60s, when Jacobs named his high performance, narrow tailed […]