Tue, Jul 8, 2008

Read, white & blue

Garrett Burke (Newtona, LLC)

by Robb Fulcher

“Hulk smash!” Generations of comic book fans and millions of current moviegoers can attest to the truth of that statement. No less true is the corollary “Stan Lee rules!” referring to the pop culture titan who created the angry green icon.

Lee, still childlike and indefatigable at age 85, will swoop down upon the South Bay’s hilly southern buttress to celebrate the Fourth of July by accepting the Heritage of Freedom Award and delivering the keynote address at the Old Fashioned Palos Verdes Independence Day Celebration.

And who better to invite to America’s big birthday bash than Lee, whose wide imagination, relentless work ethic and commanding grasp of the national pulse spawned such iconic American comic-book heroes as Spider-Man, X-Men and of course the Incredible Hulk.

Lee supercharged Marvel Comics with the bold notion of hero as everyman, replacing the archetypa  > more...

Beach Cities Sports

AAU beach volleyball comes to Hermosa
The 15th AAU Junior National Championships will be held Fri.-Sun., July 11-13 in Hermosa Beach. U20, U18, U16, U14, U12 and U10 teams compete with the girls playing Friday and Saturday, the boys on Saturday and Sunday. Tournaments are open to all boys and girls two-person teams, ages 9 to 20. Visit aausports.org for details.

Registration open for youth volleyball league
Sign-ups are ongoing for the United States Youth Volleyball League’s fall season. The eight-week league at South Park in Hermosa Beach begins Monday, Sept. 8 and o  > more...


Harbor Lights

An unmistakable smile spreads across Wes Huston’s face when he describes sailing “Woolly Bully,” his new Farr 40. “In a lee-bow situation, the whole strategy is to protect one side of the (race) course and force the other boat to tack > more...

Letters

Scum, stay away
Dear ER:
Another great job by the Hermosa Beach Police Department (“Dogs, chopper help police arrest > more...


Hermosa Beach About Town

Suspect nabbed
A woman returned to her north Hermosa home and surprised a thief who struggled with her and fled, touching off a four-hour > more...

Manhattan Beach About Town

City service awards
On Tuesday Manhattan Beach presented Johnnie Morgan and Tammy Choy with the annual Recreation and Youth > more...

Redondo Beach About Town

Navy landing
The crews of the U.S.S. Gary, a Navy guided missile frigate, and the U.S.C.G. George Cobb, a Coast Guard cutter, will land in the > more...

Easy Week

Referring to Greater LA, Jennifer Watts writes that “The agendas of its image-makers are, and always have been, varied. It is a city built on image: the image of itself and the one that it projects to the world… It is in the interstices between > more...



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