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Fireworks, runs, music planned for the Fourth
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Blackout Poetry, Marionettes, Wellness, Playful Puppets, movie night, animal magic
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Thursday, June 20 Wear comfortable shoes The fifth annual “El Segundo Art Walk” is taking place from 5 to 9 p.m. through downtown El Segundo and the ever-evolving Smoky Hollow neighborhood. Free. Among the highlights, the El Segundo Public Library is open so we can see Nanibah Chacon’s new “Portals of Memory” mural, and there’s…
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Shark, baby, celebrate wellness, protect what you love, Playa party, practice french
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David Benoit returns to El Camino College for a special night with Oleta Adams and the Asia American Youth Symphony Orchestra David Benoit’s first gig was at the Polynesian restaurant on the Redondo Beach Pier. It was 1971, and he was 16. He’d already been playing for a decade. His family’s piano was in his…
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Marcia Schneir designs for the pearls-and-sandals crowd By Ryan McDonald Marcia Schneir can often be found with a gaggle of children and a studio’s worth of art supplies, urging the kids to find the beauty in a lifeguard tower or a sunset. And then, sometimes in the same day, she pushes herself to find the…
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The first time I rode the Redondo Breakwater was the winter of ‘62. I was a 12-year old-grom. I paddled down from 30th Street in Hermosa. A lifeguard truck spotted me at 26th Street and followed me the rest of the way. The Breakwater was a WPA (Works Progress Administration) project, begun during the Great…
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There was a time last fall when Dickie O’Reilly thought it would be a typical South Bay high school surf season. Then the storms came. “We started in early October, and we went through until Christmas Break without any hiccups at all,” said O’Reilly, league director of the South Bay Scholastic Surfing Association. “We were…
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For Diane Strack, a fond goodbye Artist and Hermosa Beach resident Diane Strack (b. Sept. 4, 1946) passed away May 30. Her work had been shown in venues throughout the South Bay, including ShockBoxx Gallery in Hermosa Beach and in the recent “CA 101” shows held in Redondo Beach. “Her creativity always left her family…
Read MoreAn unusual and arguably long overdue event takes place Saturday night just across the Manhattan Beach border: a prom for grownups. The event, which features local bands Spendtime Palace, The Charities, Royal Rats, and Jesse Erikson and the Prom Band, takes place at the Moose Lodge in El Segundo and is targeting all those (read:…
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Sometime early in the 1st Century the Roman philosopher Seneca, better known for stoicism than soothsaying, purportedly remarked, “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” He was talking about Alex Curry. Curry has been hustling ever since Sand Dune Park, the North Manhattan Beach landmark, where she was the wild-eyed warrior pipsqueak queen of…
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One of the main reasons for dining out is there’s something you love to eat, but not to cook. A prime example is roast chicken, which is just about everybody’s favorite everyday meal. To do it right so that the interior is moist and the skin isn’t rubbery takes not only practice, but time and…
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For 180 days of each year, alarm clocks go off early, and a small army of educators, administrators, and support staff rise, some with prep work to do almost immediately out of bed, everyone going through their commute routines before they arrive at the eight campuses of the Manhattan Beach Unified School District. They are…
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