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Best of the Beach Retail 2024

By Kevin Cody / March 20, 2024

Men’s Clothing Spyder Surfboard shaper Dennis Jarvis, Spyder Beach people have their own style of dress, and Spyder Surf is one of the reasons. Surfing drives beach fashions and locally, Spyder drives surfing. Co-owner Dickie O’Reilly is the director of the South Bay Scholastic Surfing Association (SBSSA), composed of 11 local high school surf teams.…

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Pioneer beach Volleyball players command CBVA Hall of Fame stage

By Kevin Cody / November 28, 2023

by Kevin Cody Three beach volleyball players, all Olympians, were inducted into the CBVA (California Beach Volleyball Association) at the Hermosa Beach Community Center on Saturday, November 4. The players were Jake Gibb, with four Olympic appearances, and Nicole Branagh and Stein Metzger, with one appearance each. Also inducted this year was Sam Lagana, “The…

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The Rhythms of Hermosa Beach: Music, Festivals, and Coastal Vibes

By Special Contributor / September 6, 2023

Coastal Melody Hermosa Beach, with its golden sands and waves, embodies the fusion of nature and culture. Its shores resonate with the history of laughter and melodies near the pier. A Global Echo Such tapestries of sonic experiences aren’t unique to Hermosa alone. Gaze across the world, and you’ll find pockets of vibrant cultures, each…

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BeachLife homecoming

By Rachel Reeves / May 11, 2023

The festival as a community reunion  by Rachel Reeves  For those of us who grew up in Redondo Beach, BeachLife Festival still feels surreal, even after its fourth cycle. It’s still weird and wonderful to watch tens of thousands of people stream into what we knew as Seaside Lagoon, the site of our elementary-school field…

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Hermosa Beach: Lives well lived, 2022

By Easy Reader Staff / January 4, 2023

Jacobs shaped boards, surfers  Dudley “Hap” Jacobs is acknowledged, along with fellow Hermosa Beach surfboard shapers Greg Noll, Dewey Weber, and Bing Copeland, as among the greatest shapers from surfing’s Golden Era, in the late ’50s and early ’60s. But Jacobs’ most important contribution to surfing wasn’t shaping surfboards boards, former Jacobs team rider Henry…

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Year in review 2022: Manahattan Beach had a year of conflicts: elections, firefighters, books, and a big apartment building

By Mark McDermott / December 31, 2022

by Mark McDermott  In the months before the November election in Manhattan Beach, the word that came up most frequently in forums and campaign literature was “divisiveness.”  The word referred to a cultural divide that has emerged in Manhattan Beach, one that mirrors a national chasm in which opposing parties don’t just disagree over political…

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Troubled Trifecta: a slate of school board candidates in Manhattan Beach comes under scrutiny [UPDATE]

By Mark McDermott / November 3, 2022

[Retraction: An article in Easy Reader’s November 3 print edition, titled “Troubled Trifecta,  a slate of school board candidates in Manhattan Beach comes under scrutiny,” assert that candidate Mike Welsh was not registered to vote until the day he pulled papers to run for school board. The article also asserts the real estate developer had…

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Star of Americana – Brandi Carlile comes to BeachLife Ranch

By Rachel Reeves / September 14, 2022

by Rachel Reeves  When Brandi Carlile was in high school, she’d never met an openly gay person. Everyone in her town of Ravensdale, Washington, which at the last Census had 555 people and 257 households, went to church.  Carlile came out when she was 14, inspired by talk show host Ellen DeGeneres’s public coming out.…

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A Veggie Affair – He worked in restaurants. She worked as a  nutritionist. Their union yielded lil’ Vegerie Redondo Beach

By Rachel Reeves / August 4, 2022

by Rachel Reeves In the summer of 2018, at Gracias Madre, a vegan Mexican restaurant in West Hollywood, she started to see him differently.  Scarlett Curtis sat across the table from her longtime friend, Jason Cervantes, who was then the director of food and beverage at Hotel Maya in Long Beach. She met him in…

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LEGAL AFFAIRS – CA Supreme Court rejects Manhattan Beach Short-Term Rental ban

By Mark McDermott / July 28, 2022

by Mark McDermott  The City of Manhattan Beach’s long legal fight to uphold its ban on short-term rentals in neighborhoods near the beach was dealt a third and final blow last month when the California Supreme Court declined to take up the case.  The short-term rental ban, enacted by the City Council in 2019, will…

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CITY COUNCIL – Firefighters from Manhattan Beach and their supporters storm City Hall

By Mark McDermott / July 21, 2022

by Mark McDermott Firefighters from the Manhattan Beach Fire Department and residents who support them in their standoff with the City Council flooded the City Council chambers Tuesday night, wearing bright red T-shirts emblazoned with “Keep Our MBFD Local,“ and pleading with the council to alter its stance in labor negotiations. More than 200 people…

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Firefight – The conflict between the City of Manhattan Beach and MBFD reaches a boiling point

By Mark McDermott / July 14, 2022

by Mark McDermott  Manhattan Beach Fire Department Captain Dave Shenbaum believed he’d seen just about everything a firefighter, paramedic, and lifeguard could see in the course of his 30 years in the service. He’d seen homes burnt to cinders, every manner of awful injury, dozens of drownings and near-drownings, too many deaths to count, and…

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Olympic teammates face off in Hermosa Beach AVP finals

By Paul Teetor / July 13, 2022

Sponcil, Cheng split after Tokyo, meet up in Hermosa finals by Paul Teetor When an intense, complicated and seemingly successful relationship comes to a sudden and unexpected end, it’s tough enough to run into your ex on the street, at the grocery store or in a casual party setting. But when you run into your…

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Pleas prompt Manhattan Beach Council to enlist coyote trapper

By Mark McDermott / July 6, 2022

Pleas from Manhattan Beach residents to stop coyotes from killing their pets prompted the City Council to enlist a trapper for help

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Redondo Beach city council votes to resume county fire study

By Garth Meyer / May 4, 2022

by Garth Meyer The question of whether Redondo Beach should contract with the county for fire services is back on after a 3-2 city council vote April 19 to resume a study on the subject – which was halted two years ago. Councilmembers Laura Emdee and Christian Horvath voted against reviving the study. A switch…

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Hermosa Beach Walk of Fame 2020: John Teague Pioneer and Contest machine

By Mike Purpus / April 18, 2022

John Teague won or placed in almost every contest he entered by Mike Purpus Shortly after John Teague, and his family moved to Hermosa Beach from Tennessee in 1958, he began surfing on canvas surf mats rented from Juicy James, on the Strand, at 14th Street. Two years later, at age 15, he got his…

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