16 Stories
by Chelsea Sektnan Jack Baldelli and Ann Muscat’s mailbox stands out in their a quiet Rancho Palos Verdes neighborhood. It is made partly from a liquid fuel cell once used in a spacecraft and crafted to resemble a diving bell. This artistic flair hints at the fascinating lives of the married couple whose shared passions […]
by Mark McDermott Every autumn the Manhattan Beach Unified School District receives what school board trustee Bruce Greenberg likes to call its “report card,” or what is more cumbersomely known as the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, a battery of standardized tests required by the state to measure how well students are learning. […]
photos by Tony LaBruno The Carr’s celebrated their family home’s 100th birthday on August 4. The house was the 7th house permitted on the Peninsula. It was built in 1924 and designed by architects David J. Winter and Loyall F. Watson. Winter and Watson were renowned for designing homes that recognized the relationship between architecture […]
by Garth Meyer A total of 149 SCUBA and free divers turned in lobsters on opening day of the 2024 season, Sept. 27, for Dive N’ Surf’s 48th annual “Lobster Mobster” contest. Prizes were given to the top three participants in each category. SCUBA diver Dave Delamare brought in the largest lobster at 14.7 pounds […]
On the day he turned 16, Tom Smith earned his drivers license and his pilot’s license. Since then he’s put more miles in the sky than on the road by Chelsea Sektnan As a boy growing up on Catalina Island, Palos Verdes resident Tom Smith watched Navy jets soar off aircraft carriers and dreamed […]
Four Hermosa Beach residents, two Redondo Beach residents, a Manhattan Beach resident and a Palos Verdes resident will represent the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris next week. Hermosa residents Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng will compete together in women’s beach volleyball. Hermosa residents Chase Budinger and Miles Evans will compete in […]
by Chelsea Sektnan Tucked inside a formerly vacant lot on 6th Street in downtown San Pedro, behind a large, green wrought iron gate, is a dinosaur with a crown of thorns holding a quote from the Gospel of Matthew that says, “I was hungry, and you fed me, I was a stranger, and you […]
CORRECTION: In the story “Building BeachLife” (Easy Reader, May 2, 2024), the company that built the BeachLife stages was misidentified. Stage Techs of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., constructed the two main stages, High Tide and Low Tide. Accurate Staging, of Los Angeles, built the festival’s V.I.P. structures and mezzanines. by Garth Meyer […]
A Chinese lantern Lynn Tang produces movies and runs the Universe Multicultural Film Festival by Bondo Wyszpolski After working hard for many years, establishing her own company and then selling it, Lynn Tang decided to retire and just relax. That didn’t last very long, because soon after she was contacted by a Chinese filmmaker who […]
by Garth Meyer Apart three feet, back three feet and down three feet from each other, the formation planes will arrive over Pasadena with a certain time in mind: 9:13 a.m. and 12 seconds New Year’s Day. The Torrance Airport-based Tiger Squadron graces the Rose Parade as the first civilian formation to be granted the […]
by Paul Teetor Preston “Master P” Ezewiro grabbed a pin-point pass that found him at the low post, wheeled around two Palos Verdes defenders, and threw down a monstrous dunk. The home crowd roared its approval as if to say, finally, this is what we came for. Thirty seconds later he snagged another clever pass […]