by Mark McDermott The South Bay now has 525 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 133 in the Beach Cities, according to the Los Angeles County Public Health Department’s newest release of data. Carson has the most cases confirmed in the South Bay, with 93. Torrance has 92 cases, Redondo Beach 67, and Manhattan Beach 48. The […]…
Read over 40 Easy Reader stories about the coronavirus in the Beach Cities, ranging from expert advice on physical and mental health to beach closures and a surfer who was cited for ignoring the closure order. Photographers’ visions of the impact are also exhibited at EasyReaderNews.com.…
South Bay restaurants step up take-out during dining-in prohibition.…
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.…
Hermosa residents saves beach volleyball nets from being hauled off in County pick-up trucks.…
by Kimberly Dester In a dominant win on Saturday, Mira Costa High School’s girl’s soccer team took home the CIF Division 2 championship. The victory was especially rewarding for coach Patty Perkinson, who had led her team to four CIF title games over her 30-year coaching career, without a victory. The Mustangs beat Oak Hills […]…
The El Segundo High surf made an aggressive, but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to upset league leading Mira Costa last Wednesday at 26th Street, Costa’s home break. El Segundo Junior Grayson Daley and Freshman Aolani Barreto led their team in points. Photos by Erik Albertson Comments: comments so far. Comments posted to EasyReaderNews.com may be reprinted […]…
The South Bay Boardriders/Jolo Media surf contest last Saturday in El Porto began with a 6.7-foot, king high tide, pea soup fog and 4-foot shore pound.…
The surf swell that hit the South Bay in late January brought an almost week long run of waves. This is the story of that swell in this episode of Swell Stories produced by Civic Couch. This swell had a combination of waves from bombing beach break closeout barrels to long shouldered waves perfect for […]…
South Bay restaurants step up take-out during dining-in prohibition.…
![Hooking up with take-out [restaurant review]](https://easyreadernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/HookandPlowRBKelleher-75x55.jpg "Hooking up with take-out [restaurant review]")
The stay-at-home order has had an interesting side effect, as amateur cooks who suddenly have free time are upping their game in the kitchen. Old family recipes from an era when women stayed at home and cooked all day seemed too complex and time consuming only a month ago. Now that we’re staying home and […]…
![A Peaceful Place [restaurant review]](https://easyreadernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/LaPazOwners-75x55.jpg "A Peaceful Place [restaurant review]")
NOTE: This review was written before restaurants were closed due to the virus. La Paz remains open for take out. Most people have a restaurant that they go to almost by default. It’s that place like home, except at home people expect you to cook and do the dishes. Restaurants that fit that category aren’t […]…
In the studio, and busier than ever When art calls, no one sleeps on the job by Bondo Wyszpolski We’ve been keeping in touch with most of the local galleries, but what are the artists themselves up to, at least those in good health and with time on their hands? Well, most of them are […]…
‘You will never see this again’ from Easy Reader News on Vimeo. [Editor’s note: Long time Hermosa Beach photographer, artist and volleyball player Robi Hutas succumbed to cancer over the weekend. The following story originally appeared in the August 19, 2011 Easy Reader] by Mark McDermott Photographer Robi Hutas has long been known as […]…
Behind the closures, they’re keeping busy An update on galleries in the South Bay by Bondo Wyszpolski Although the major museums are closed for an indefinite period of time, and art galleries as well, a few of the latter, because of their small size, are still allowing in the occasional visitor, although pretty much by […]…
by Bob Pinzler With a lot of time at hand, with closed gyms, walking restrictions, cancelled movie screenings, and only take out from restaurants, I’ve been trying to envision what things will be like for municipalities when we pull out of this self-imposed isolation period. We may have unintentionally accelerated our transition to a new, […]…
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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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