Riviera Village office fronts draw scrutiny

by Garth Meyer Prohibition may soon return to Riviera Village for ground-floor office space. Reinstatement of an earlier zoning ban on office tenants at street-level is under consideration by the Redondo Beach city council.  The matter stems from the council’s current Strategic Plan, which aims to bring new businesses to the city and cut regulatory […]

BeachLife restaurant set to open in Riviera Village

by Garth Meyer A former Riviera Village liquor store has been transformed into BeachLife Grotto restaurant, to open July 24, the latest project from BeachLife Festival co-founder Allen Sanford and partners. “We took a dilapidated liquor store, which is a kind of a thing of the past, that wasn’t contributing to the community much, and […]

Art is also highly contagious!

Creativity is also contagious Artists responding to the times we’re living through   As each week passes, our resolve takes a hit or perhaps hardens, and an ongoing chronicle of our time resides in the thoughts and ideas and imagery created by our visual artists. So, with a nod to our future historians, let’s read […]