Archive for September 2010
Jesse Malin, who performs Friday at Dive, singing “Broken Radio” with Springsteen
The Visit of the Blue Whales (by the Riviera Waveriders)
City workers claim CHP retaliation
Two city workers claim that a California Highway Patrol officer wrote a seatbelt ticket for one of them the day after a quarrel over a red no-parking line the workers painted on the street outside the officer’s Hermosa home. The workers claim that during the dispute the officer told them, “I’ll see you on the…
Read MoreNew North Branch Library opens doors
The new North Branch Library, nine years in the making, was unveiled Tuesday afternoon. The 12,600 square-foot “green” certified library on the corner of Artesia Boulevard and Green Avenue has been a longtime labor of love for a passionate segment of the community including volunteers from the Redondo Beach Library Foundation, past and current City…
Read MoreGateway surfer statue approved
Hermosa Beach City Council on Tuesday approved the creation of an 8 foot-tall bronze statue of surf legend Dewey Weber and agreed to further study where the statue will be placed, possibly in front of the Community Center along Pier Avenue near Pacific Coast Highway. Councilman Michael DiVirgilio cast a lone dissenting vote to make…
Read MoreHockey coach accused of molesting boy
Hermosa police have arrested an ice hockey coach after a boy revealed during counseling that he had been molested on two occasions. Daniel “Danny” Gibb, 31, was arrested outside his Redondo Beach home last Thursday. “Detectives placed suspect Gibb under arrest following his confirmation of the sexual molestation during a telephone conversation with the victim,”…
Read MoreAbout Town
Avenue unveiled A ceremony to dedicate the remade upper Pier Avenue will be 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 7 at Pier and Manhattan avenues. A 10-month overhaul of the iconic main drag includes wider sidewalks, an improved storm drain system and larger planted areas. Green groundbreaking The public is invited to a groundbreaking ceremony 8:45 a.m.…
Read MoreUnmanned sailboat washes up by RB pier
A boat with nobody aboard washed up near the Redondo Beach pier late Friday afternoon. Three hours later a search party discovered a man afloat two miles out at sea, but rescuers were unable to revive him. Richard Barras, 59, from Hermosa Beach, was declared dead at 8:15 p.m. The search for the then-unidentified sailor…
Read MoreRedondo Beach USD receives two bids For Knob Hill property
The Redondo Beach Unified School District Tuesday received two bids for the development of its property at 320 Knob Hill. One proposal met the district’s minimum lease terms of $500,000 annually exactly and would refurbish the existing buildings as a Christian high school. The other proposal is slightly higher, at $502,027, and would keep the…
Read MoreFifty years and a day
Wilfred Sarr’s life in art In September of 1960, a very unlikely GI went on leave. Wilfred Sarr was 24. He’d been drafted the previous year, unceremoniously yanked from Compton College, where he studied psychology for one very good reason. “Well, I knew that I was crazy, no doubt about that,” Sarr said. “I looked…
Read MoreBlast from the past
A look back on the centennial of a great explosion and a ‘trial of the century’ for capital and labor A century ago, the City of Los Angeles was caught in the middle of an escalating struggle between labor and capital. Something had to give — and it did. On Oct. 1, 1910 a strong blast…
Read MoreA working Waterman’s
With service to match an ambitious menu, Waterman’s proves itself better than it needs to be When I say that Waterman’s in Hermosa Beach is better than it needs to be, it sounds like faint praise. It’s not, actually. There are restaurateurs that calculate what the market will accept and stop right there, either from…
Read More“Dracula”
Fog flows in the room from windows that mysteriously open by themselves, lights dim, chairs move for no apparent reason, all of this and much more are on tap in the Westchester production of “Dracula.” Directed by Shawn K. Summerer, this is among the finest productions I’ve seen in a long time. Based on the…
Read MoreWoman Ascending
A local poet and photographer celebrate the eternal feminine There are certain pictures that we chance upon that linger in our memory, and for Manhattan Beach photographer Paul Blieden there was one in particular that would eventually lead him to create a book, in collaboration with poet Madeline Sharples, called The Emerging Goddess. “I was…
Read More“The Glass Menagerie”
The play’s the thing, someone or other said, but then so is the production. This one, at the Mark Taper Forum through Oct. 17, being innovatively imagined and directed by Gordon Edelstein, comes courtesy of The Long Wharf Theatre and it features three of the original four cast members – Judith Ivey as Amanda Wingfield,…
Read MoreFinger pickin’ good
Slack key artist Sunday at Sangria Ask any Hawaiian who grew up in a native island family to choose among creature comforts of electricity, running water and music, and their answer will be an unastonishing “music.” Hawaiian babies teethe on ukeleles and makuakane sing their keiki to sleep in leo ki’eki’a (falsetto) tones soothing to…
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