Surf Yer Brains Out! 19 and under Contest

photos and words by Justin Mehren Surf Yer Brains Out was a great success. The Malibu Surfing Association’s provided groms from up and down the coast the opportunity to surf the famed 1st point of Malibu to themselves.  The early round standouts were Kei Kobayashi, Andrew Jacobson, Sean Woods, Trevor Robbins and Honolua Bloomfield all…

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ZJ Boarding’s haunted house, haunted heats

by Steven Rodriguez (six12media.com) All photos and captions by Steven Rodriguez A thick fog blanketed Santa Monica on a recent, chilly Saturday morning in October. And just like in the classic John Carpenter “Vampires,” the fog brought with it a gang of monsters. But these ghouls weren’t searching for stolen gold. There was something much bigger…

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Survivor’s Guilt: “Dallas Buyers Club” [MOVIE REVIEW]

by Michael Nordine  The last month has been dominated by survival narratives: “Gravity,” “Captain Phillips,” “All Is Lost,” and “12 Years a Slave” all chart the will to live in face of seemingly insurmountable odds. “Dallas Buyers Club” follows suit, but it tweaks the formula by focusing on a figure as unsympathetic as he is…

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Tree Musketeers: making a difference, one tree at a time

by Kathryn Cross  On October 26, Tree Musketeers members, ranging from ages 10 to 18 will be hosting their very first Make a Difference Day, a day to celebrate fun, the convivial South Bay community, and helping the environment, one tree at a time. Tree Musketeers, the world’s first known youth-lead environmental organization, is run…

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Letters to the Editor: Save the Lakes, Bobko pro and con, candidates on Hermosa oil, budgets, and Bill Brand on the Redondo waterfront

Save the Lakes Dear ER: The El Segundo City Council (the “ESSC”) is abolishing The Lakes golf course as we know it and love it. The Lakes is a gift to the community, created largely from a Chevron restrictive grant for outdoor recreation. Most importantly, it’s home to young golfers from Mira Costa, Redondo Beach,…

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A teenage take on yoga: not so much [WHATEVER]

  by Lina McDermott and Raquel Gerard  So, let’s talk yoga. Is it more than just fancy stretching? Is it valid exercise? As a teenager, I must make sure that everything I do is totally worth my time (because I could just be in bed watching Gossip Girl on Netflix). Raquel and I took the…

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Waikiki of the West Coast: Sink the Long Beach Breakwater

“South swells could send waves to just South of Shoreline Village all the way to the end of the Peninsula.” All photos courtesy of Ian Lind of ilind.net By: Kelli Marie Koller      On November 13, 1938 our country’s first National Surfing Championships were postponed until December due to lack of waves. Where was…

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PT’s POV: The Riddler, J Riddle Malibu Legend

All photos courtesy of Peter “PT” Townend By Peter “PT” Townened At the dawn of the Seventies we got one issue of “Surfer” and one issue of “Surfing” in our hands that had this guy named J. Riddle on the cover. Riddle was in his beaver-tail wetsuit in these perfect looking green barrels that turned…

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A survivor’s tale: How a 28-year-old mother beat cancer, one day at a time, toddler in tow

by Jennifer Acee Robinson (Editor’s note: Jennifer Acee Robinson, a Redondo Beach resident, battled breast cancer while raising a little boy and, improbably, became pregnant with her second child while still undergoing radiation treatment. The following are her day-to-day recollections of this experience, which was also chronicled in her blog, Lovely, With a Side of…

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This Thursday: Cancer Benefit at Waterman’s Hemosa Beach

Brent Broza will be donating 11 framed canvas photos at Watermans Hermosa Beach on Thursday, August 22nd to benefit Jim Flanagan’s Cancer recovery. Brent Broza will be donating 11 framed canvas photo pieces of which will be raffled off later in the evening. There will be bowls at each piece, which gives you the option to…

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Manhattan Beach-based comic auteurs come out “Guns A’Blazin’!”

Comic book creators Mike Wellman and Rafael Navarro decided to cast themselves as gun-slinging, time-traveling adventurers in their new project, a whirlwind odyssey of dinosaurs, zero-gravity cave girls, cowboys and Indians, and menacing spacemen. The new comic, “Guns A’Blazin’!” begins with a purpley-plump, star-filled illustration of cosmic space-time, and the promise that “time is a…

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Redondo Beach hosts first ever Miss Global pageant

by Saima Fariz At first glance, #5 looks like the typical beauty pageant contestant; a picture perfect smile that never seems to fade, a thick layer of makeup covering every inch of her face, and little to no clothing at all that glitters under the blinding stage lights. The only things that set #5 apart…

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