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By Emery Min Over 100 runners competed in the 9th Annual Manhattan Mile, held in conjunction with the 63rd annual Chevron Manhattan Grand Prix cycling races on Sunday, July 12, at Live Oak Park. Elite runners were joined by runners as young as seven, many paced by their parents. “Runners are pretty happy go lucky […]
by Baran Taghvaei The room fills with the aroma of freshly delivered groceries as volunteers come together to prepare food parcels filled with fresh vegetables, bread, and fruit. Others begin distributing freshly packed meals, complete with a main dish, salad, drink, and dessert. Guests respond with warm smiles and grateful ‘thank yous’. “Our mission at […]
Compiled by Sally P. Flack. To submit calendar items, please email sally@easyreadernews.com Thursday, July 23rd Comedy by the Slice, Pedones Every Thursday night at Pedones Pizza. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. 1332 Hermosa Avenue, Hermosa Beach. For more information call (310) 376-0949 Shrek The Musical, Armstrong Theatre The Aerospace Players […]
Compiled by Sally P. Flack. To submit calendar items, please email sally@easyreadernews.com Friday, July 10 South Bay Greek Festival – Redondo Beach 3 days of food, dance, and culture. Music, games, dancing. and the best Greek Food in town. Additional dates include: Saturday, July 11 noon. — 10 p.m and Sunday, July 12, noon – […]
by Diana MacDougall Two years ago, a then-85-year-old Mary Lou Simms walked up the stairs to the upper deck of the King Harbor Yacht Club and saw a framed collection of portraits honoring the Win’ard Yacht Club Commodores, from 1949 to 1960. The club was founded in 1949, and merged with the Redondo […]
by Nikki Yunker The South Bay has over 200,000 families. It needs a kids’ museum, Redondo Beach mom Christina Domer concluded during the pandemic. During that period she and her young son, who is now seven, visited the New Children’s Museum in San Diego. “We walked in the door and I was just like, ‘Oh […]
Thursday, June 25 Zonta Club at the Comedy Club The Zonta Club of South Bay is a chapter of an international nonprofit organization committed to advancing the status of women through service and advocacy. Enjoy a night of laughter at the Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. 1018 Hermosa […]
Event Spotlight ¡KOOKS! to reappear in Hermosa Cypress District The ¡Kooks! #1 exhibit at Gallery of Hermosa in November featured work by a dozen legendary Southern California surf inspired artists, among them former surfing magazine photographer Mike Balzer, Dogtown and Z-Boys film maker Stacy Peralta,and surfboard shaper Dennis Jarvis. Many of those same artists, and […]
by Garth Meyer A new Gallup National Health and Well-Being poll taken in the Beach Cities shows “historic highs,” at a time of national decreases. Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach had a combined Well-Being Index of 69.5 for 2025, their best yet, surpassing the national average of 60.1. The individual score for […]
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First this way, and then that “Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking, 1400-1850” by Bondo Wyszpolski Maybe I’m presuming, but I doubt that many people give much thought to the reciprocal relationship between drawings and prints. But for those inclined to, well, the J. Paul Getty Museum has an exhibition that goes into considerable depth […]
The bells may stop, but the ringing continues “Bells of Nagasaki: Music for Contemplation” is a special concert at St. John Fisher Church by Bondo Wyszpolski Eighty years ago this month — on August 6 and 9 — atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending the war with Japan but introducing a […]