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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…
Read MoreZJ 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…
Read MoreSpooking Good Time: The Riviera Wave Riders 5th Annual Halloween Surf
By Candace Stalder The Riviera Wave Riders held their 5th annual Halloween Surf on October 26th at Torrance Beach. The gloomy skies and fast breaking waves didn’t stop this group of characters from putting on their best costumes and paddling out. Each year the RWR holds the “Halloween Surf” to celebrate the birthday of Kahuna…
Read MoreSurvivor’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…
Read MoreTree 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…
Read MoreLetters 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,…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreWaikiki 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…
Read MoreA Flop at the Top – “The Producers” at the Norris Theatre
by Vy Nguyen One of the most successful musicals in the history of musical theater, “The Producers” gathered 12 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. As hilarious as it is popular, the work is based on the original 1986 film of the same name composed by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan. It opens for three weekends…
Read More‘The Dead Guy that God Sent Home.’ FDNY firefighter Bobby Senn’s remembrance of 9/11
Following is a talk given September 13, 2008, by FDNY firefighter Bobby Senn at the unveiling of the City of Redondo Beach 9-11 Memorial. Senn, twice buried alive in the rubble of the World Trade Center, helped the city obtain the 300 pound WTC beam remnant for the memorial. It was a cloudless, crisp, beautiful…
Read MorePT’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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreThis 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…
Read MoreManhattan 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…
Read MoreRedondo 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…
Read MoreManhattan Beach’s ‘Pie Guy’: Efren Aguilar of Manhattan Pizzeria
The 50-year-old Oaxaca native, who studied up to the fourth grade, never thought he would one day work in the kitchen. Now, after serving as general manager of Manhattan Pizzeria for the last 14 years, he is the man that makes it all happen.
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