Giant Menorah lights up Pier Plaza for Chanukah
photos by Kevin Cody The 11th Annual Giant Menorah Lighting was hosted by the Jewish Community Center on Pier Plaza at dusk on Sunday, December 29. Los Angles County/Hermosa Beach Firefighters assisted in the lighting with their hook and ladder truck. Prior to the lighting the children’s choir performed traditional Chanukah music and hot latkes […]
Up, Up and Away
Story and photos by Bondo Wyszpolski The butterflies are out, or rather they’re in — inside of a walkthrough, tentlike pavilion created by Spineless Wonders and stocked with an abundance of painted ladies, blue morphos, giant swallowtails, and other tropical butterflies. SOAR invites us to cavort with these living bits of vividly-hued confetti as […]