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The sun was sinking behind surfer Alex Gray, illuminating the Beach Cities and Palos Verdes Peninsula surf breaks, where Gray has scored some pretty sizeable waves. But some far bigger waves were about to unfold right behind him, inside Redondo Beach’s Seaside Lagoon. Gray had the honor of presenting the men’s biggest paddle award, the…
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Ten thousand people came to the beach last weekend in Redondo Beach, all because a teenage boy lit a fire 28 years ago. Allen Sanford was a thoughtful juvenile delinquent. He didn’t want to do harm. He just wanted people to stop and wonder for a second. So as a 13-year-old kid, he snuck out…
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Women’s Conference, Historical audio tour, coffee with an Assemblyman, Classic car, get in shape
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by Jeff Vincent I couldn’t have been more than 21 years old, shirtless with a Spanish leather purse strung across my shoulder protecting a CD Walkman and the precious cargo it contained from the onslaught of sand particles determined to eat holes in my copy of the Grateful Dead’s 1973 Wake of the Flood album.…
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The North Shore of Oahu, a winter in the mid ‘90s. Five surfers head for Sunset Beach Elementary, a kindergarten through sixth grade school directly across Kamehameha Highway from Pipeline. The surfers are Donovan Frankenreiter, Peter King, Jack Johnson, Rob Machado, and Kelly Slater. They are there to play music. It’s unlikely that a recording…
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X marks the spot Exene Cervenka in the here and now: an interview With the 1980 release of “Los Angeles” on Slash Records, X made an impact on the local music scene that’s reverberating still. The group, which formed in 1977, cut seven studio albums between ‘80s and ‘93, the first five of them with…
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“I might as well address the elephant in the room,” surfboard shaper Pat Ryan said at the start of his Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame induction talk. Listening with anticipation were over 500 people who attended the 2019 induction ceremony Saturday morning on Pier Plaza.
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As much as any surfer on the Hermosa Beach Surfers Walk of Fame, the Beach Boys helped stoke surfing. They will be inducted in the Hermosa Beach Surfers Walk of Fame on Saturday, April 27.
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2019 Hermosa Walk of Fame inductee Ronnie Garner had a powerful, Hawaiian style bottom turn, but he also loved nose riding.
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“I wanted to be one of the boys. So I grabbed a board nobody was using and a pair of my brothers trunks. I was one of the first girls to wear trunks instead of a bathing suit.” — 2019 Hermosa Surfer Walk of Fame indicutee Liz Benavidez
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When people talk to me about the ‘good old days,’ I tell them, ‘The good old days’ are right now.’” — ET Surf shaper Pat Ryan
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The 2019 Buick Enclave Avenir Crossover Utility Vehicle represents some of Buick and GM’s best engineering and styling work to date.
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Katie is one of Hermosa Beach’s very own influencers. She’s got thousands of adoring fans on Instagram and a compelling life story. She’s even got a fashionable wardrobe that goes great with the color of her fur. Katie is a doodle, one of the many Hermosa dogs brought by owners to South Park…
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Mama D’s sign down, for now Mama D’s opened its Hermosa location earlier this month, in the Pacific Coast Highway storefront long occupied by Boston Wildflour Pizza, and more recently by Fabio’s Pizza and Italian Restaurant. The restaurant announced its presence by painting the south wall of the stripmall, which it shares with Best Donuts…
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Manhattan Beach resident Don Jung’s book ‘Rockin’ Through Troubled Waters’ recounts his times in the late ‘60s music scene
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Big, fast waves and clean conditions brought out the best in local surfers at the South Bay Boardriders/Waterman’s contest at the Hermosa Beach Pier on Sunday, March 24.
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