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You could run full speed down from the top and didn’t have to worry about anything but sand in your mouth and ears…

Longtime South Bay musician Howard Payne’s recalls how he came to sing a wedding song to a newly engaged couple on Southwest Flight 3267.

by Randy Angel
After a mid-week practice in October, Kevin Ellison sat wondering what direction his team – and his professional football career were going.

Photographer Seamus Ryan has found his calling in the antiquity of his imagination

Story by Don Waller
Photo by John English
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the infamous Black Flag show at Polliwog Park in Manhattan Beach that turned into a storm of thrown foodstuffs, shouted obscenities, and angry picnickers, and the exhibition of punk-rock art that’s scheduled to grace the walls of the Hermosa Historical Museum next month, we asked Keith Morris to share his thoughts on growing up in Hermosa, the earliest days of the local punk-rock scene, and what he’s doing now (working on the first new Circle Jerks album in 14 years).