Search Results: best o the beach 2019
Circus, Tennis, Volleyball, blood drive, happy hour, music and more music
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Manhttan Beach Pacific School 10-year-olds line up against four-minute milers at Village Runner Manhattan Mile.
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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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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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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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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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Thursday, July 11 Seaside soul King Chris performs soul music from 6 to 8 p.m. on the Redondo Beach Pier, behind Tony’s, 100 Fisherman’s Wharf, Redondo Beach. Come back on Saturday, same time and place, to hear the blues rock of CC Stugino. Free. More are redondopier.com. The Bard in the yard Shakespeare by the…
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Many years from now, perhaps when she is a grandmother sitting with a granddaughter on her lap trying to explain what it was like in the old days before women were presidents and received pay equal to men, Alex Curry will remember a single sound. It was a sound she heard seven times in…
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Four Cabrillo Aquarium staffers were pitched into the Pacific during an operation to reintroduce black sea bass, formerly housed by Redondo Beach’s now-closed SEALab, into ocean waters last Thursday, June 27. “There was a weight distribution issue and the boat started lifting — four staffers were hanging off the side with this big fish, with…
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Changes At Shark’s Cove: Shark’s Cove sports bar in Manhattan Beach will close after Labor Day, to be replaced by Esperanza, a restaurant similar to and under the same management as Palmilla in Hermosa. The concept drawings for the space are dazzling, and it will be a major upgrade for the area. It’s a canny…
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A neverending fatal voyage Under the stars with “Titanic” April 15, 1912. Within the span of two or three hours it was as if an entire city had slipped beneath the surface of the ocean. And as that city disappeared it was also becoming mythic and legendary, an architectural Atlantis. Several decades passed before human…
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A relatively new food service in Rancho Palos Verdes has a name that is the linguistic equivalent of a Russian nesting doll. Shady Grove at Stripe Cafe at the Palos Verdes Art Center is the majestically long moniker for a little cafe tucked in the upper level of the building. They’re open only for breakfast…
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Daggers, pistols, swords… and a mermaid The Pirates Dinner Adventure in Buena Park On a quest for non-taxing entertainment? Shakespeare and Beckett leaving you cold and confused? Well, matey, one remedy is the festive and rowdy allure of “Pirates Dinner Adventure,” a non-stop high-seas spectacle in Buena Park that’s set on an 18th Century Spanish…
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Chuck Mathieu stood in front of a podium near the entrance to Suzy’s Bar and Grill on Tuesday night. With his Suzy’s t-shirt, his periodic glances at a bound book resting on the podium, and the swarm of people coming up to talk with him, a newcomer to Suzy’s could be forgiven for thinking of…
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Something strange happened on a day in early June in 2014. Two men drinking at a bar had a good idea. Comedian Danno Carter and musician Dan Vos were having a drink at Pancho’s, the iconic Mexican restaurant at the corner of Highland and Rosecrans in Manhattan Beach, when the idea hatched. What if,…
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The mind behind the Energizer Bunny, the Taco Bell Chihuahua and the woman who threw the hammer at a very big screen during the 1984 Super Bowl
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