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South Bay Community Calendar 8-8-19

By Judy Rae / August 9, 2019

MB AVP, concerts, Teen Choice, Pajama-rama, Summer series, beach party

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Letters to the Editor 8-8-19

By Judy Rae / August 9, 2019

Read about it. Write about it

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The old man and the little mermaid

By Paul Teetor / August 8, 2019

“You’re on your own, just you and the ocean.” – Dwight Crum Pier to Pier announcer Dick Douglas         She’s the youngest person ever to swim in the two-mile Dwight Crum Pier to Pier race. He was the oldest person in Sunday’s race. In an after-race photo, he looked like a proud grandfather and she…

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Gillis Bodysurfing gives back at annual Surf Festival contest

By Special Contributor / August 8, 2019

Over 100 men and nearly 50 women from throughout California and Hawaii competed in the International Surf Festival body surfing contest Saturday morning at the Manhattan Beach pier. Jason Napolitan, of Manhattan Beach, placed first in the men’s 19-39 division, followed by Adam Warren of San Diego and Alex Merteska of Los Angeles. In the…

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Darren’s Dare [restaurant review]

By Richard Foss / August 7, 2019

Some things are so widely believed to be impossible that they’re rarely tried. In the hospitality industry one of these truisms is that once a place has an established identity as a bar that serves food, you can’t transition into an upscale restaurant. You can do it if you change the name and décor, but…

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South Bay Community Calendar 8-1-19

By Judy Rae / August 1, 2019

Music, Sidewalk sale, Surf Festival, CPR, Let’s Hike, free fitness, birds at the beach, volunteer

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Rescue riders

By Rachel Reeves / July 30, 2019

Horse-loving families restore the long-neglected Palos Verdes Stables Once or twice a week for three years, Megan Padilla drove her daughters to Palos Verdes to ride horses.  The commute from Manhattan Beach transported Padilla back a world she had left decades earlier. She’d been a “horse girl” growing up in Lunada Bay. She competed around…

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AC Not Working? 10 Ways to Beat the Summer Heat

By Teri Marin / July 29, 2019

If you were unlucky enough to wake up and find your AC not working, don’t sweat! Keep calm and follow these tips for beating the summer heat Summers are getting hotter. Even with our ceiling fans and air conditioners, it can still be a struggle to keep our homes at a comfortable temperature. But when…

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Songs from the windshield: The roadgoing of James McMurtry 

By Mark McDermott / July 27, 2019

By Mark McDermott I was living in a candy warehouse in South San Francisco when I first heard James McMurtry. It was 1996, and I was hiding out, trying to kick the dangerous habit of the Alaska fisheries, where I’d spent the previous five years barely not dying on a daily basis, yet addicted to…

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Letters to the Editor 7-25-19

By Judy Rae / July 25, 2019

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South Bay Community Calendar 7-25-19

By Judy Rae / July 25, 2019

Circus, Tennis, Volleyball, blood drive, happy hour, music and more music

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Pacific School 10-year-olds challenge four-minute milers at Village Runner Manhattan Mile

By Kevin Cody / July 22, 2019

Manhttan Beach Pacific School 10-year-olds line up against four-minute milers at Village Runner Manhattan Mile.

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Vigil brings immigration issues home

By Mark McDermott / July 20, 2019

  Elvis Martinez traveled an unfathomable distance to stand, a little scared but plenty strong, before a crowd of a few hundred people on the Manhattan Beach pier last Friday night.  Two years ago, Martinez walked roughly 1,400 miles from his home in the gang-infested city of San Salvador, El Salvador, to Brownsville, Texas. He…

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Greeks on the prairie [restaurant review]

By Richard Foss / July 17, 2019

Earlier this evening, I found myself imagining an alternate history where the American West was settled by Greeks rather than the motley crowd of Germans, Irish, French, Mexicans, and Spaniards. I imagine cowboys sitting around the fire drinking red wine with their bacon, beans, and steaks while meditatively reviewing the dialogs of Socrates. On particularly…

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Real and replica at the Getty Villa

By Bondo Wyszpolski / July 17, 2019

Back to the beginning Originals meet the replicas in the Getty Villa’s “Buried by Vesuvius” Few of us will have the experience of digging a well in our backyard which leads to the unearthing of an entire seaside estate. But that’s sort of what happened in 1750 when well diggers were stopped by an exquisite…

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Mindful craft [restaurant review]

By Richard Foss / July 16, 2019

Before I stopped in at Crafty Minds Brews + Bites for the first time, I tried to look up their menu online. I couldn’t find one, so I called. The fellow who answered the phone said they didn’t have an online presence, but volunteered that they serve what he called “California pub food.” It’s a…

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