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South Bay Community Calendar 7-26-18

By Judy Rae / July 26, 2018

Volleyball weekend in Hermosa with The 2018 AVP Hermosa Beach Open

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High style, Zacatecas style [restaurant review]

By Richard Foss / July 24, 2018

Decor sets expectations, but not always in an obvious way. If you enter a restaurant and see a display of wines, walls painted in tasteful contemporary colors, and stylish indirect lighting then you might expect the bill to be a bit heftier than the place with the bright lights and Formica counter down the street.…

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Letters to the Editor 7-19-18

By Judy Rae / July 23, 2018

Read about it. Write about it

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J.R. Organics, a 5th generation farm family, perfects its produce

By Mark McDermott / July 23, 2018

Back in the mid-1980s, Joe Rodriguez Jr. asked his father for an acre of the family farm. He’d been applying pesticides to crops on the family’s 80 acres and it had made him feel sick. His idea was to try something different. Joe Jr. wanted to farm without chemicals. Joe Sr. was skeptical, but he…

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Its permits withdrawn, CenterCal project ‘is dead’

By Kevin Cody / July 21, 2018

The future of the Redondo Beach waterfront is wide open. Plans by both the City of Redondo Beach and its estranged development partner CenterCal Properties have been withdrawn. Tuesday night, the Redondo Beach City Council directed staff to withdraw California Coastal Commission application permits for the CenterCal project, as well as permits for a new…

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Over the past four decades, Hermosa’s Comedy and Magic Club has built up loyalty from fans of comedy: those in the crowd, and on the stage

By Ryan McDonald / July 20, 2018

Last week, in a proclamation honoring the Comedy and Magic Club’s 40th anniversary and declaring July to be “Comedy and Magic month,” Mayor Jeff Duclos touted some of the innovations of the Club’s owner and founder Mike Lacey, including holding shows at earlier hours and deemphasizing alcohol sales. First among the trails blazed, however, was…

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Ryan Bullock wins inaugural Swim The Avenues race

By Randy Angel / July 17, 2018

First-time athletic events can present problems, but swimmers and onlookers were impressed with the inaugural Swim The Avenues 1 and ½-mile events held in Redondo Beach on Sunday. The event is a qualifying swim for the International Surf Festival Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier swim “The inaugural Redondo Beach Open Water Swim was a huge success,” Director…

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South Bay Community Calendar 7-12-18

By Judy Rae / July 12, 2018

Start making plans for the weekend

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Letters to the Editor 7-12-18

By Judy Rae / July 12, 2018

Read about it. Write about it

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Fiorelli moves on, Sister’s Barn opens, new ramen shop on PCH, and more dining news

By Richard Foss / July 11, 2018

A Master Departs… The big news this week is the departure of Chef Michael Fiorelli from Love & Salt, the restaurant he cofounded four years ago. It’s an amicable split and he will be there until September, but his exit for a “new project in LA proper” still sent shock waves around the community. Fiorelli…

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Walmer progeny, with Costa coach win 20th Annual BarryBob Tourney

By Special Contributor / July 10, 2018

by Megan Garringer Saturday afternoon took volleyball players back to the ‘80s, with a sea of platinum hair and bronzed bodies sporting ill-fitting swimsuits. The occasion was the 20th Annual BarryBob Volleyball tournament at 10th Street in Manhattan Beach. It all began in the summer of 1998, following the deaths of beach patriarchs Barry Walmer…

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Visitor’s Guide 2-18 – Places to GO Things to DO

By Judy Rae / July 9, 2018
When: July 9, 2018 @ 8:36 pm – 9:36 pm

Places to GO Things to DO El Segundo Old Town Music Hall 140 Richmond St., El Segundo Concerts on one of the world’s few remaining 2,000 pipe, Mighty Wurlitzer Organs played by theater owner Bill…

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First time runners in 4th of July 5K emerge as race champions

By Randy Angel / July 8, 2018

Running in her first Village Runner 4th of July 5K in Riviera Village, Palos Verdes standout Kristy Legg captured the women’s division with a time of 17 minutes, 6 seconds edging Santa Monica’s Christine Bolf (17:06) in one of the tightest finishes in the event’s 25 years. Legg, 28, is the cross country head coach…

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South Bay residents, politicians and businesses fret as LA Metro plans Green Line extension

By Kevin Cody / July 5, 2018

For an area within a stone’s throw of busy Inglewood Boulevard and 190th Street, the neighborhood that surrounds Redondo Beach’s Franklin Park is quiet, even on a Saturday afternoon. Walking the sidewalks, the loudest sounds are cheers from a birthday party at the park itself, a dog barking, or dishes rattling around while people make…

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25 years of alt rock photos by Kat Monk

By Bondo Wyszpolski / July 2, 2018

Rock of Ages Kat Monk’s photographs of musicians go on view at ShockBoxx in Hermosa Beach In the mid-1990s, Kat Monk could be found photographing bands at local venues like Toes Tavern, the Pitcher House, or the Hermosa Saloon. Oftentimes she would submit prints to the Easy Reader. Now, nearly a quarter of a century…

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Siblings recover after brain tumor surgery

By Kevin Cody / June 29, 2018

Less than a month ago, Duncan and Nohea Avery’s two children were diagnosed with the exact same kind of tumor in the exact same spot in their brains, an anomaly that Avery was told may steep his kids in medical journal history. Now, with a few weeks to look back over the swirling chaos, Duncan…

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