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A head down, straight ahead strategy paid off for 32-year-old, Hermosa Beach paddler Adam Buckley, who had an unremarkable, 19th place finish in his first Catalina Classic paddleboard race last year. Despite a headwind, bumpy water and taking what he afterwards acknowledged was too high a course, Buckley arrived at the Manhattan Beach pier finish line Sunday morning 23 minutes ahead of his last year’s time and seven minutes ahead of second place finisher Brian Rocheleau, of Hawaii who finished fourth in the Classic last year.

Casey Ehlers-Parker wasn’t exactly sure how she got here.
She knew how she ended up in Redondo Beach after the long, strange, and surpassingly fun trip that she embarked on as a kid from Georgia who became a worldwide fashion model, traveling, partying, and More

Christian Burke ran the 3.4 miles from the Hermosa Beach pier to the Manhattan Beach pier over 20 times, logging over 80 miles barefoot in the soft over the Labor Day weekend. He started at noon Sunday and finished shortly before noon on Labor Day. His efforts raised over $5,000 for Hermosa Beach Schools, where his daughter Halle is a sixth grader.

District wide, MBUSD improves on state STAR testing.

Local prep teams kick off their football seasons Friday with non-league contests with defending CIF Western Division champion Mira Costa hosting Loyola and Redondo traveling to take on North Torrance. Bay League teams face a tough challenge in the post season this year after moving to the highly-competitive Northern Division.

Brian Wright and the things he lost, and gained, in the fire
According to a theorem laid down by the late great Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt, the world of song can be broken down most essentially into two broad categories: there’s the blues, More

“By the time Gerôme died in 1904, he was recognized in America as a celebrated lion of the French art world, but also regularly criticized as a second-rate master.”
That’s co-curator Mary Morton on the once prolific and ubiquitous Jean-Leon Gérôme (b.1824), a descriptive More

The first time I passed Calamari’s restaurant in Redondo, I did a double-take. Was the place actually owned by someone whose name was Italian for squid? Or (even more unlikely), by an actual squid? Given that an octopus was successful at picking World Cup More