Posts by Kevin Cody
Sanford’s BeachLife festival moved to May
The BeachLife Festival, Allen Sanford’s effort to bring a music, art and food festival to the Redondo Beach waterfront, will be postponed by seven months to May 2019, rather than the festival’s originally-planned Fall 2018 launch. “It’s much better to wait and plan this thing correctly than to rush a festival together,” Sanford, a local…
Read MoreTourism District to replace Visitors Bureau
A new tourism marketing district, set to replace the embattled Redondo Beach Visitors Bureau, was established following its approval by the Redondo Beach City Council. City officials hope that once it’s up and running, the district will help Redondo’s stature as a tourist destination, thusly helping the city’s economic bottom line. On Tuesday night, the…
Read MoreVolunteers celebrated during BCHD school garden cleanup
The Beach Cities Health District kicked off its own countdown to the school year, gathering more than 150 people to refresh school gardens at BCHD’s annual Volunteer Day – so many volunteers that the district had to cap the number of people wanting to help. “Our community is engaged, and we’re 10 years in here,…
Read MoreSpotlight on the hill – Celebrate Wellness
$170 for Cancer Research
Read MoreBetween the mountains and the sea the Lowe family home
The Lowe family’s Portuguese Bend home brings together their two favorite places
Read MoreA most elegant killing machine Lockheed P-38 Lightning
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was the leading American fighter plane in the Pacific Theater and inspired a generation of auto designers
Read MoreSpotlight on the hill – Celebrating a Giving Heritage
Torrance Memorial
Read MoreSpotlight on the hill – 29th Annual Seahorse Classic
Benefiting Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Read MoreSpotlight on the hill – Woodstock revival at the Storm Estate
Benefiting the LA Philharmonic
Read MoreRedondo Beach About Town
Police warn of increasing residential burglaries The Redondo Beach Police Department has warned that residential burglaries have increased throughout Redondo, particularly within the Franklin Park area. According to police, residents have reported a white BMW, with two or three individuals, knocking on doors. If no one answers, the crew then breaks into the house. Police…
Read MoreSocial host’ law aimed at teen drinking
“It’s happening, and happening enough that the Beach Cities Health District said we have a problem here.” – Councilman Christian Horvath The Redondo Beach City Council approved a social host ordinance at its Aug. 14 meeting, taking action against substance use among minors by cracking down on parties at private homes. The ordinance, given its…
Read MoreState commission drastically alters Manhattan Beach’s downtown specific plan
Manhattan Beach Mayor Amy Howorth walked away from Thursday’s California Coastal Commission at the Redondo Beach main library ready to fight. More than a year and a half ago, Manhattan Beach approved its Downtown Specific Plan, a zoning measure that aims to protect the identity of the area while creating a vision for the next…
Read MoreCoastal Commission certifies voter-approved zoning in Redondo Beach
There were checks and subpoenas, yelling and shouting, low-slung faces and waved signs – and at the end of the day, cheering. Thursday, was a long, strange day in the Redondo Beach Public Library’s second-floor meeting room. But around 10 p.m., 13 hours after the meeting began, the California Coastal Commission approved of Redondo’s…
Read MoreNeptune tower it was and Neptune tower it is again, for now
The lifeguard tower on the border of Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach was recently renamed Neptune, it’s long time name, until last winter when the County changed it’s name to !st Street.
Read MoreTasting, tippling at Manhattan Beach Chamber Bite at the Beach
The Manhattan Chamber breathed new life into tasting and tippling events four years ago by emphasizing craft beers rather than wine at its annual Bite at the Beach. This year’s sold-out Bite at the Beach was Saturday, August 11 on the backlog streets of New York at the MBS Media Campus.
Read MoreShakespeare by Polliwog Park, Manhattan Beach tonight
It’s not too late to see Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives of Windsor.”
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