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by Steve Fulton I doodle on my PeeChee folder at Foster A. Begg. Inspired by my current obsessions. Uninspired in Mr. Genario’s math class. I create an alter-ego. A hard edged, video game character. With the name: “Punker Pac-Man.” An amalgamation of the music sisters listen to. And video games l play at The Guild…
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A Song of Freedom (Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from a speech delivered at the Hermosa Beach September 9 Memorial on September 9, 2019 by Manhattan Beach Fire Captain Tim O’Brien.) Because of technical rescue training Jeff Sanders, and I had, and through a relationship our former Fire Chief Dennis Groat had with a…
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by Garth Meyer City leaders gathered June 1 on the third floor of the South Bay Galleria, past Cinnabon and across from Champs Sports, for a Redondo Beach Roundtable featuring a presentation about the coming South Bay Social District. Redevelopment plans have slowed, project community engagement liaison Geoff Maleman told the group, because of higher…
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by Mark McDermott Five years had passed since the last Kaiwi Solo, the world championship of outrigger canoeing. The race had been canceled in 2019 by one of the treacherous storms that often haunt the channel, a tumultuous body of water between the Molokai and Oahu islands, which translated from Hawaiian means “the channel of…
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by Paul Teetor The Lakers incredible late-season run from 13th place in the Western Conference to the Western Conference Finals – making them one of the final four teams in the NBA playoffs – was such a big deal here in LA that it overshadowed some significant local sports stories that broke in the last…
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Pixies cast a spell over the coolest music of the last three decades. The band performs at BeachLife next weekend by Carrie Dietz Brown It’s 2002 and I’m riding my dumpster-dived bike on the Strand from Hermosa’s Scooter Records to Go Boy Records on PCH. My Discman blares track four, “Ed is Dead,” off my…
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A newly rejuvenated David Benoit is again writing music, conducting and touring by Bondo Wyszpolski It might have seemed David Benoit was down for the count. His kidney had been failing, taking his strength and stamina with it. After each dialysis session, he says, “I’d come out so beat-up… hungry, tired, angry, all of that.”…
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Winter of ‘23 Redondo Breakwater in perspective Photographer Mike Balzer favors shooting surfers from a distance. For these photos, taken January 6, 2023 he shot the Redondo Beach Breakwater from the Hermosa Beach pier, nearly one mile to the north. The large waves in the foreground (top photo) give perspective to surfer Chris Rodriquez dropping…
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by Garth Meyer Two candidates seek the city treasurer position in the March 7 Redondo Beach municipal election. MATTHEW KILROY He goes by Matt or Matthew. “Depends on the situation,” said Mr. Kilroy, who hopes to be the next treasurer for Redondo Beach, the city which he has served as a District Five councilman, and…
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Sensible and sensitive Jess Morton’s transition from physics to poetry by Bondo Wyszpolski For half a century, JB Kennedy sold secondhand books, moving from one South Bay beach town to another. My initial encounter with him was in the late 1970s when his bookstore was on Pier Avenue in Hermosa Beach. He later owned a…
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by Mark McDermott The Manhattan Beach Police Department was authorized by the City Council Tuesday night to hire seven new officers and three additional civilian personnel. MBPD Chief Rachel Johnson recommended the hires, which were unanimously approved by the Council. The new hires, when completed, will increase the number of sworn officers from 65 to…
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by Paul Teetor The Mira Costa boys basketball team took a huge step towards winning the Bay League title Friday night when it went on the road and crushed second place Culver City by a score of 65-48. The Mustangs are now 21-1 overall and 6-0 in the league. They are on pace to post…
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Dodgers All Star Chris Taylor ‘Driving for hope’ to help kids with cancer by Paul Teetor For the last decade, Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner was the undisputed team leader in one very important category: reaching out to the community and doing all he could to support good causes. But Turner signed a two-year deal…
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Photos by Jefferson Graham by Paul Teetor For the last decade, Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner was the undisputed team leader in one very important category: reaching out to the community and doing all he could to support good causes. But Turner signed a two-year deal with the Boston Red Sox last month, joining the…
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by Kevin Cody Two of Hermosa’s stodgiest institutions embraced the torrent of fresh thinking unleashed by lifting of COVID restrictions at the start of 2022. The Hermosa Beach Historical Society set aside its preoccupation with the town’s early history for shows about its contemporary history. The Chamber of Commerce lifted the lid on “third rail”…
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