Spotlight on Medicine: Torrance Memorial Medical Center Holiday Festival of the Trees Gala
The 41st Annual Holiday Festival Gala at Torrance Memorial was an extraordinary evening of giving, raising $2.1 million to support the hospital’s Emergency Department expansion. Held in a beautifully decorated 23,000-square-foot tent, the event featured gourmet dining, live and silent auctions, and 32 dazzling holiday trees. A highlight of the night was the announcement of […]
December 2024 Peninsula Calendar
6 Friday DECEMBER Manhattan Beach Sandpipers Holiday Tour This popular community fundraising tour boasts three distinctive homes in the South Bay. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Tour starts at Neptunian Woman’s Club, 920 Highland Ave., Manhattan Beach. More information: sandpipers.org/holiday-homes-tour. Contact Tickets@Sandpipers.org with any questions. 1 Sunday DECEMBER Fall Butterfly Baskets, PVP Land Conservancy […]
Hermosa Beach School Board candidate Carol Kluthe was Ed Foundation President
by Kevin Cody When Carol Kluthe, her husband, and two young daughters moved back to Hermosa Beach in 2015, after two years in New York, she asked friends why the curriculum at Hermosa school wasn’t equal to her daughters’ school in New York. Hermosa’s coveted Spanish classes were assigned by lottery. The music teacher had […]
CITY COUNCIL: City will launch a non-profit to fundraise for Begg pool
by Mark McDermott The LoveMB Foundation had a messy birth at Tuesday night’s Manhattan Beach City Council meeting, but by night’s end, the City’s own non-profit was alive and kicking — very specifically, as it turned out, towards a new Begg Pool. An ad hoc committee that grew out of discussion betweens the Council and […]
Temperature rising
“Dimanche” at the Broad Stage pleases and provokes by Bondo Wyszpolski I received an extra graduate degree at UCLA simply by attending dozens and dozens of theatrical and musical performances in Royce Hall, Schoenberg Hall, and the Freud Playhouse. Most of these took place a very long time ago but I was thinking of them […]