Posts by Kevin Cody
Hermosa hideout: La Campagna
If you know real Italian food you can find much to love at Chef Manny’s La Campagna, if you can find La Campagna. Once you find the place and come inside, it’s a pretty room, though the romantic atmosphere is marred by TVs at both ends (luckily with the sound off). The menu is a straightforward list of pizzas, pastas, and Southern Italian specialties.
On local government:Butler is case study in politics of intimidation
If you are a registered Democrat in the 53rd Assembly District, your mailbox has been filled with screeds indicating that Betsy Butler, one of eight candidates in the race for the Democratic nomination, is the devil incarnate.
Harbor Lights: The vocal minority
Redondo Beach City Councilman Bill Brand’s opinions reflect the mission of Building a Better Redondo (BBR), an organization that claims it supports slow growth, but seems much more intent on no growth. BBR portrays its mission as a citizen’s revolt against city government.
Read MoreSurf kite coach Matt Sweeting
The South Bay is spoiled when it comes to kitesurfing. We have Torrance Beach, El Porto and Marina Del Rey for the advanced and surf inclined rider. And yes, kitesurfing is as easy as it looks, providing you have the proper equipment and instruction.
Letters to the editor, May 13, 2010
Gift card confusion Dear ER: Please allow me to clarify a few points on which Doug Christensen was mistaken (“Real teacher appreciation, ” ER Letters, May 6, 2010). Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week is a function of the PTA, and as such has nothing to do with the RB Teachers Association or RB Education Foundation.…
Read MoreSplit vote upholds eatery hours
The City Council on a split vote declined to challenge plans for Il Boccaccio restaurant on the Pier Plaza to remain open past midnight. Closing hours for downtown establishments have triggered debates on and off the council dais because of persistent allegations of rowdiness and noise on the part of late-night patrons.
Read MoreTen might take early city retirement
The City Council on Tuesday received news that about 10 city employees might take early retirement incentives that are being offered as a way to trim the municipal payroll, which makes up the largest single expenditure in the annual budget. The city currently has 14 vacant, unfunded positions. The early retirement offer, based on a…
Read MoreNotes from a solo relief effort
Editor’s note: Bryce Toney, owner of the Curious store on upper Pier Avenue, was so moved by January’s devastating earthquake in Haiti that he raised donations from friends and loved ones and flew there to put the money and his building skills to use. He wound up about 20 miles from Port-au-Prince at an…
Read MoreAbout Town
Ocean commotion The South Bay Coastliners barbershop singers, along with the C-Nile Quartet, The Perfect Gentlemen and female groups After Five, the Serotonins, Weeda Bass, Ready, Willing and Mabel and the Hot Tamales present “Commotion on the Ocean” Wednesday, May 19 at the Hermosa Beach Community Center. Trinidad native Francis Lynch will accompany the singers…
Read MorePV Surf Club’s Tulie Clark remembered
Hermosa Beach Surfer’s Walk of Fame pioneer inductee Calvin “Tulie” Clark was buried Tuesday morning at Green Hills Memorial Park wearing his green Palos Verdes Surf Club jacket. He died Friday at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimers.
Steve Byrne on fireworks in Iraq, surviving stand up
by Andrew Warnuck
Steve Byrne has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and has two hour long Comedy Central specials. We spoke about the secret to joke writing, going on a USO tour seeing his brother in Iraq, and comedy stalkers.
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A.M.I. Hermosa Historical Society Punk Art show
Artist Ramond Pettibon and Black Flag and Circle Jerks singer Keith Morris at a showing of Pettibon’s early Black Flag flyers and album covers. Photo by Nick Meistrell
Read MoreMay 6, 2010
Real teacher appreciation
Dear ER:
I just received a flyer from my daughter’s Redondo Beach elementary school with suggestions on the gift cards that each and every teacher (as well as administrator) would like to have for “Staff Appreciation” week — May 24 through May 28.
South Bronx to South Bay: Bees free at last
by Roger Repohl
After a couple years of consciousness-raising and political agitation by urban-agriculture groups, the New York City Department of Health has removed the honeybee from its index of forbidden creatures. Oh, freedom! No longer would beekeepers in the boroughs have to live furtively, fearing betrayal by neighborhood informants, their locations disclosed, their hives confiscated, their checkbooks garnished, their pacific hobby denied them by The Regime.
Firefighter cited for career as leader
Paul Hawkins of the Hermosa Beach Fire Department will receive a Sustained Superiority Award at the 36th annual South Bay Medal of Valor ceremony today, for three decades of outstanding service as a firefighter, a mentor, and a tireless leader in a program to train paramedics in Hermosa’s Mexican sister city.