Posts by Mark McDermott
Electronics store thief busted
Police detectives last Wednesday arrested a man described as “prolific vehicle burglar” who targeted shoppers at electronics stores throughout the South Bay.
Dusty Rhodes and the River Band play Brixton tonight
Grave robbers steal military markers
Police are searching for three bronze military markers that were stolen from the graves of military veterans sometime late Thursday night or early Friday morning. The grave markers, taken from Pacific Crest Cemetery on 182nd Street, were pried off cement platforms, presumably for the value of the bronze. “It’s pretty egregious,” said Sgt. Peter Grimm…
Read Morethe Melodians (playing Saint Rocke tonight) sing “This Land is Your Land”
Battle over harbor zoning intensifies
After a nearly decade-long pitched battle over harbor zoning, things managed to become somewhat more muddled in the wake of Tuesday night’s City Council action. The council voted to send its proposed Coastal Land Use Plan to a citywide public vote, possibly as soon as November. But the action fell short of demands made by…
Read MoreDusty Rhodes and the River Band at Brixton
RBUSD, BCHD may partner on pool
The Redondo Beach Unified School District is building a $9.8 million aquatics center and looking for ways to open it up for broad community use.
April 1, 2010
See the light Dear ER: I don’t know Chris Miko personally, but my children do and for that I’m thankful (“Teacher gets NASA award and Pink slip,” ER Mar. 18, 2010).. He made a difference in their lives. He got my son off of dinosaurs and into space. My out of town friends still talk…
Read MoreCosta students remember friend who died
Classmates gathered at Dockweiller Beach on Monday night to mourn the passing of popular Mira Costa junior Darius Smith.
Read MoreAMI and the Hermosa Beach Historical Society’s celebration of punk art in the South Bay ends Saturday night….
Addi’s authentic southern cooking
Addi’s Tandoor celebrates the culinary tradition of southern India. Restaurant critic Richard Foss samples the restaurant’s beef vindaloo, “chillie mushroom,” prawns Kanyakumari, and bhindi dopiaza (okra with onions, tomatoes, cumin, and dried mango) and leaves dreaming of Indian voyages of long ago.
Read MoreTheater Review: “Spit Like a Big Girl”
by Nate Lee The South is America’s place for stories. It’s always been a place that, particularly in the heritage of Scotch-Irish Appalachia, reveres its words, its stories and its storytellers. Southern writers, black and white, enjoy a prestige wrought from this heritage that no other American locale affords. In her one-person play, “Spit Like…
Read MoreKatie Costello at Live at the Lounge [VIDEO]
The continuing adventures of Katie Costello
When she looks back on it, Katie Costello is pretty sure she was out of her mind. She was 17 and – at least technically speaking – a senior at Mira Costa High School. But in the waning days of 2008, she found herself – of her own admittedly odd volition – alone in New…
Read MorePolice search for man who shot at officer
An intense, ten hour manhunt failed to locate a man suspected of shooting at a Redondo Beach police officer in the early hours of Monday morning.
Read MoreCouncilman Steve Diels sues Republican congressional candidate Pete Kesterson
Redondo Beach Councilman Steve Diels last week filed a lawsuit against Republican congressional candidate Pete Kesterson and the California Secretary of State, protesting Kesterson’s ballot designation. Kesterson’s states that his occupation is “taxpayer advocate.” Kesterson, a Redondo Beach resident and chair of the city’s budget and finance commission, subsequently withdrew his proposed ballot designation and…
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