Jefferson Graham

Video by Jefferson Graham (JeffersonGraham.com) [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”3013″ display=”masonry” ngg_triggers_display=”always”]by Kevin Cody The current World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers pitched in literally, as well as figuratively, to help teammate and All Star utility player Chris Taylor in his Second Annual CT3 Foundation Polar Plunge at the Manhattan Beach pier on Sunday, February 2. Seven […]

We started the year gazing out at the Mexico border from a pier three miles away in Imperial Beach, California and ended with another Photowalks expedition to glorious San Francisco. Along the way, hello Tijuana, Sicily and Barcelona, the West (Heber and Park City, Utah, Cody, Wyoming, Bozeman, MT and Victor, Idaho) a return to […]

by Jefferson Graham Back in 1989, Pete Moffett, the owner of Manhattan Coolers, a popular restaurant on Manhattan Beach Boulevard, had a brainstorm: how about fireworks in December, instead of July, as a way to kick off the holiday season downtown? Together with other merchants in the area, he sold the city on the idea.  […]

Jefferson Graham travels up and down the California coast and all over the world producing episodes of his PhotowalksTV travel show. The Manhattan Beach resident offers travel and photo tips. The series has been a popular YouTube mainstay since 2018, attracting nearly 2 million views.  Now, the series has made the move to broadcast TV, […]

by Jefferson Graham  Brenda O’Leary has been living in the South Bay for over 30 years, initially splitting a small place in Hermosa with five roommates, and then moving on to Manhattan Beach in 1991.  “At the time, Manhattan Beach was the fun place to be,” she says, even with the daily commute to Century […]

by Jefferson Graham After serving 35 years for the city of Manhattan Beach, most recently as its finance director, Steve Charelian only lasted a few weeks away from City Hall when he stepped down in July.  “This isn’t goodbye,” he said in his last appearance before the Council.  One month later, Charelian filed papers to […]

You may have heard that locals in Barcelona, one of the world’s most beautiful and visited cities, protested recently with squirt guns, chanting “Tourist Go Home,” complaining that they were ruining their city. So does that mean we stop visiting? The answer is a big no. We visited in May, a few weeks before the summer […]

I started PhotowalksTV to help people cut to the chase when they arrived somewhere with their phone camera. Instead of trying to figure out where the best places for local photography were when you got to town, what if you could watch a video and get a sense of it before you arrived? Over the […]

    Lynne Gross has hosted TV children’s shows, produced PBS shows, taught at two universities, and written 12 textbooks. She’s not done yet inside by Jefferson Graham Lynne Gross retired in 2009, at age 70, after teaching “a little bit of everything” at Cal State University Fullerton for 20 years. During that time, she […]

The brochures and hype hit me: you no longer have to sit in your car at the border crossing for hours to go from California’s San Diego to Mexico. Instead, why not take the trolley or drive to the border town of San Ysidro and just waltz over the pedestrian bridge to Tijuana?  I was exploring San Diego for […]

Video by Jefferson Graham The seven candidates for Manhattan Beach City Council spoke in a candidate forum at the Shade Hotel Wednesday Night, October 12.  The event was sponsored by the Downtown Manhattan Beach Business and Professional Association and moderated by the association’s executive director Jill Lamkin.  The candidates include newcomers Frank Chiella and Rita […]

Even in the midst of a pandemic, we still managed to bring the Photowalk cameras to some great places year for season 2 of the travel photography series, so if you’ll indulge me, a quick look back at highlights from a strange year. I just put together a highlight reel from the just concluded season which begins […]