Redondo Beach mayor’s race: candidates differentiate at old library forum
by Garth Meyer The first Easy Reader/BeachLife/presented by South Bay Boardriders Redondo Beach candidates forum got underway at sunset Feb. 20 at the old library at Veterans Park, with a standing-room crowd. Moderator Marcus “Goodie” Goodloe quizzed mayoral candidates last. He began with a question about pickleball courts, then about the five candidates’ visions for […]
Bands at the Lagoon: Friday Night Lights at BeachLife
by Gavin Heaney I brought my trusty, rusty beach chair to BeachLife this year. As I flipped my old fold-out, I realized there’s something still grassroots about setting down your chair and throwing down a blanket at an outdoor show. It’s a free zone where anyone can claim their own little base camp. Normally people […]
Australian embers: Chef Curtis Stone runs BeachLife Nights’ VIP food
by Garth Meyer Curtis Stone stood in the audience in May at BeachLife watching a band – his 12 year-old son’s. “The Rookie Five” had won a battle of the bands and earned a slot on stage. Allen Sanford, BeachLife co-founder and longtime restaurateur, ended up standing next to Stone. “We just got chatting,” said […]
Sting to headline BeachLife
From a distinguished young punk, to a refined jazz interpreter and political voice, then Puff Daddy’s melody source to eulogize the Notorious B.I.G., to an elder statesman in a muscle shirt – Sting is coming to BeachLife 2024. Incubus and My Morning Jacket headline the other two nights of the fifth edition of the waterfront […]
I dedicate my Strand cruiser to the memory of her own
Pixies cast a spell over the coolest music of the last three decades. The band performs at BeachLife next weekend by Carrie Dietz Brown It’s 2002 and I’m riding my dumpster-dived bike on the Strand from Hermosa’s Scooter Records to Go Boy Records on PCH. My Discman blares track four, “Ed is Dead,” off my […]