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Amid a statewide housing crisis, Hermosa confronts accessory dwelling units, density and identity Spray paint scrawlings all but cover the chalk-colored walls. A drum kit, shoes, and assorted flotsam crowd the floor, while a noose hangs from the ceiling. Amplifiers serve as impromptu furniture. A man with a mohawk sips Colt 45 and sits in…
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Thursday, August 23 Charges dismissed In Contempt plays from 6 to 8 p.m. on the Redondo Beach Pier, 100 Fishermans Wharf, Redondo Beach. One of the last outdoor concerts of the summer. Friday, August 24 Room at the top The Torrance Theatre Company presents “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” at the James…
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Standing at an impressive 6 feet, 9 inches tall, Phil Dalhausser continues to reach new heights as the Redondo Beach resident captured his seventh AVP Manhattan Beach Open title on Sunday. Playing with longtime partner Nick Lucena, Dalhausser repeatedly had his shots blocked by Jake Gibb in the first set while Gibb and partner Taylor…
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Second of two parts One day in 1966, Bob Holmes stopped by the lifeguard tower just north of the Manhattan Beach pier on his way to bodysurf. Legendary big wave surfer Greg Noll happened to be at the tower, visiting his fellow lifeguard and big wave surfer Mark Stange. Noll, known as “Da Bull” for…
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Adam Malovani’s walking tour of Hermosa’s musical heritage exposes challenges of preserving town’s past Singer Joni Mitchell has said her hit tune “Big Yellow Taxi” — with its tinging triangle and immortal lament that “They paved paradise/And put up a parking lot” — was inspired by a trip to Hawaii. Mitchell told Robert Hilburn, the…
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Members of the LA County Surf Life Saving Association got their revenge last weekend, retaking the Jersey Mike’s United States Lifesaving Association (USLA) National Lifeguard Championships, for its 29th title in the last 31 years. With a depleted lineup last year, the LA County team fell to Monmouth County of New Jersey, who finished as…
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As Lifeguard Captain Dan Atkins stood at the podium and raised his arm, the beams from the temporarily erected spotlights glinted off a metallic flask he clutched in his right hand. The flask, Atkins told the audience assemble at Redondo Beach’s Seaside Lagoon Wednesday night for the 38th Medal of Valor Awards, was one of…
Read MoreThe Cherry on top of the Hawaiian toast by Janice Nigro
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“Heroin and Poet Homer’s Siren Song” by Spiros H. Mikelatos Beloved poet Homer, I adore your Iliad and your Odyssey. Among your beautiful, lyric expressions I often recall and admire the story of Ulysses and the Siren Song. I am a medical practitioner who tries to help heroin addicts. As I listen to the story…
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The swimmers kept them in the race, the paddlers delivered the lead, and the dorymen took the L.A. County Southern Section lifeguard team home through some seriously troubled waters, winning its fifth straight Judge Irving Taplin Medley Relay championship Saturday night north of the Hermosa Beach Pier. The fact that it was such a well-rounded…
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What Shall We Do with All This Happiness? Artist Scott Meskill is among “The Usual Suspects” at ShockBoxx in Hermosa Beach If we look north to El Segundo, south to Palos Verdes, and east to Torrance, it’s safe to say that ShockBoxx Gallery in Hermosa Beach is emerging as the most interesting, if not most…
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Hermosa Beach’s Ryan Bullock, 34, and El Segundo’s Kelsey Cummings, 25, were the top finishers for men and women in the 56th annual edition of the two-mile race, starting at the Hermosa Pier and ending at the Manhattan Pier. The win was Bullock’s third consecutive Pier to Pier win and his fourth in his last…
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In the process of reading the latest entry for the Hermosa Beach Mural Project, board member George Schmeltzer used a bit of deception. The Mural Project board had settled on punk rock and skateboarding as the theme for the eighth of what will be 10 murals celebrating Hermosa’s history. So they decided to reach out…
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The Redondo Beach Unified School District is planning to name one of its schools after Pat Dreizler, a woman considered by many to be the “matriarch” of Redondo Beach. The discussion came before the RBUSD Board of Education during a meeting last Tuesday, though it had been percolating in the head of board member Brad…
Read MoreR-10 Padleboard race, free fitness, donate, Whale watch, and Fishtivities
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