Southern California’s progress toward improving ocean water quality remains halting, with clean conditions abounding during the summer months when beaches are most crowded, but swimming after rain still posing a significant threat of illness, according to a new report from Heal the Bay.…
The Hermosa Beach Kiwanis Club announced the awarding of $26,500 in academic scholarships last week.…
Beach Wheels By Jeff Mitchell Recently I had a chance to test-drive the new BMW M235i xDrive Gran Coupe and came away impressed with the vehicle’s capability and build quality. While impressive, the M235i is a bit of an odd duck — being part sports sedan and part crossover. What do I mean by this? […]…
Last Friday, the Bay League High School Track and Field Finals were to be held under the lights at the Redondo Union High Sea Hawk Bowl. For most of the runners, the finals would be their last track meet. For top runners, like Mira Costa senior miler Billy Atkinson, league finals would be a last chance to set a school record and catch the attention of college coaches. …
The Mira Costa boys volleyball team began the 2020 season ranked number one in the CIF Southern Section. The team quickly justified the ranking with an opening, 10-0 run. Then, as it did for all other prep teams in California, their season ended.…
Five years ago Chris Palisin charted a mid-life course-correction that paid off big-time for himself -- and for Oxford Academy, the academic powerhouse in Cypress where the long-time Hermosa Beach resident was named the new head basketball coach last spring.…
Over 200 predominately white surfers participated in a Black Lives Matter paddleout at the Hermosa Beach pier on Friday.…
By Brad Jacobson (Mad Video Lab) Surfer Spotlight. In this episode of “Surfer Spotlight” we present Matt Mohagen, big barrel hunter. Matty Mo!!! Matt charges big waves and rides them better than most. Watch him stand straight up in the barrel, acting like it’s his living room. Watching him surf is inspiring so sit back, […]…
by Brad Jacobson Matt Pagan and I have chased swells across the South Bay region of Los Angeles for the past 6+ years. He’s an incredible surfer with one of those smiles that light up a room. I’ve never seen him get negative or act like he’s having a bad day. I’m sure he’s had […]…
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There are people who drive by Manhattan House every day and have never stopped in to see what they do. It’s easy to understand why this happens. There is speedy traffic most of the day at by the northwest corner of Sepulveda and Manhattan Beach boulevards, and the gaudy mural that is intended to advertise […]…
Bending Time And Space: The march of public dining into parking lots, parking spaces, alleys, and courtyards continues, sometimes on a grand scale and sometimes small. A stretch of Richmond Street in El Segundo has become an outdoor plaza, and restaurants everywhere are eyeing every possible space where they might be able to put a […]…
Manhattan Beach’s downtown has always had a different character than the other beach city downtowns, in part because of topography. Unlike Hermosa Beach and Riviera Village, which boast wide streets in a flat area, Manhattan’s roads are narrower and the ones leading to the beach are steeper. This has created the unlikely situation of a […]…
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by Neely Swanson “Kaye Ballard- The Show Goes On” is a love affair directed by Dan Wingate about one of the most talented singer/actresses of the 20th Century who is virtually unknown to anyone under the age of 50. Her last television series regular roles were on “The Doris Day Show” (1970–72) and “The Mothers-in-Law” […]…
Basic principles Abstract expressionist painter and arts teacher Dael Patton by Bondo Wyszpolski And so let us begin, in medias res, with Adolph Gottlieb coming out from New York and teaching a graduate art class at UCLA. Gottlieb (1903-1974) is still hailed as one of the masters of abstract expressionism, and one of his students […]…
All the colors of the rainbow The illuminating art of Frank LaMantia by Bondo Wyszpolski For some time now, usually when least expecting it, I’d come across an image that simply popped from the page. It took a while to figure out that Frank LaMantia was the artist behind these works, which in most cases […]…
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More homeschooling Dear ER If people don’t wear masks they’re going to have to homeschool their kids during the next school year. Is that what they want? Laura Frances EasyReaderNews comment Track it or close Dear ER: I asked the City of Hermosa Beach if an employee of a bar or restaurant tests positive, […]…
A mirror image Dear ER: I am a member of a black family living in the South Bay for more than 50 years. I applaud the article written by Mark McDermott and Ryan McDonald and the publishing space afforded to it in the Easy Reader (“No riot going on: Black Lives Matter comes to Manhattan […]…
Hermosa Beach, Thursday, January 14 by Ryan Banas
Hb Surf Clips 1-14-16 from Ryan Banas on Vimeo.
The Thursday, January 16 El Nino 2016 swell in Hermosa Beach looked as beautiful from the sky as it did from the water. Video and photographs by Ryan Banas
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