Search Results: best of the beach 2018
Story by Paul Teetor Photos by Ray Vidal In the end, the Mira Costa football team simply ran out of miracles. The Mustangs staged a furious late rally against St. Pius X-St. Matthias Friday night, wiping out most of an 18-point deficit at Waller Stadium. But they came up just short, to fall 46-43 in…
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In April 2017, Leadership Hermosa and Hermosa Beach Mayor Jeff Duclos organized a celebration to acknowledge the city pier’s cameo role in “La La Land.” As part of the celebration, Leadership Hermosa prepared a colorful, ceramic plaque, to be installed on a wall at the foot of the pier. The plaque read, in part,…
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by Garth Meyer The degree to which the South Bay Parkland Conservancy is a volunteer organization led to a clarification vote Tuesday night at the Redondo Beach city council meeting. City Manager Joe Hoefgen acknowledged a mistake that played a role in leading to the controversy. “This is not our finest moment as staff,” said…
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Elegance, mystery, and a classic touch The artistic journey of Aaron Westerberg by Bondo Wyszpolski He seems to be living in one century yet channeling another; living on the Pacific coast but with a sensibility more attuned to the Atlantic seaboard. I think this is evident in the work and it is clearly apparent in…
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by Daniel Blackburn Hermosa Beach will be paying a cash settlement to owners of a now shuttered fitness gym following an agreement approved in closed session May 25 by the city council. Notice of the currently-confidential agreement was filed in federal court on June 15. The city’s amount to be paid to Jed Sanford and…
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by Judy Shane Anto Boghokian was 12 years old, visiting his grandparents in California, when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. Though Armenian, he was raised in Lebanon, and Kuwait, and had been living in Kuwait. He couldn’t return. It took him two decades to earn permanent residency in the U.S. During this time, he became…
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Photos by Ray Vidal by Paul Teetor It was all over by halftime. You could tell it by the starkly different body language as the two teams headed for their respective locker rooms. Mira Costa football players strutted off Redondo’s home field Friday night with a 28-0 lead and the clear expectation of putting up…
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by Ryan McDonald On March 6 of last year, when face masks seemed a paranoid overstatement, the band Slaughterhouse played a show at the Factory, a venue in a converted industrial space about a half-mile west of the Los Angeles River. Proceeds went to aid victims of the bushfires that had recently ravaged the east…
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by Paul Teetor From the First Four to the Final Four. That was the highway to heaven that UCLA traveled on its five-game March Madness journey, and the trip ain’t over yet. The Bruins are moving on to Saturday’s national NCAA semifinals after a pulsating, heart-stopping finish to their 51-49 Elite Eight victory over top-seeded…
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There are no words that can describe what Coach Feather has done for athletics in the South Bay.” — Keith Ellison, former Sea Hawk, Warrior and Buffalo Bill player and current Sea Hawk defensive coordinator by Randy Angel Editor’s note: Manhattan Beach native, former El Camino College football coach and beach volleyball coach John Featherstone…
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By Paul Teetor Prep sports fans are about to enjoy an unprecedented all-you-can-watch buffet. Or it could just be an all-you-can-read buffet, as the final rules on fan and media attendance are still being worked out. Either way – fans or no fans, maybe only just immediate family with a limit of four — football,…
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by Paul Teetor It was a lost weekend for LeBron and the Lakers. And it’s going to get worse. First they lost Anthony Davis for at least the next month and quite possibly longer. Then they lost four out of five games. In the process they lost their standing as the league’s best team and…
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by Richard Foss I was one of the first customers when Hermosa Brewing Company opened in 2018, though that was an accident. My brother and I were walking away from dinner elsewhere when we noticed that the lights were on, so we stopped in for a pint. We had more than that, not only because…
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Nash clash with Nets, McPeak honored, Kobe remembered This isn’t what Steve Nash signed up for. The former Phoenix Suns star signed with the Lakers in 2012, spent three injury-plagued years with LA, and retired in 2015 to enjoy life. He deserved a break after his miraculous journey from unheralded Canadian baller with exactly one…
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As 11th graders at Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach, Kieran Lyons and Henry Johnson have spent the better part of this year at home learning how to be good students, remotely. But as leaders in Manhattan Beach’s Boy Scout Troop 713 — they’re the ones who are teaching.
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Former KCAL reporter Erica Mandy launches a news podcast that’s ‘fast, fair and fun’
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