Lakers medicine man
After LA’s sudden case of hoops mania finally fades away and the Lakers flags come off the SUV’s it will be a summer of surgery for the newly re-crowned NBA Champion LA Lakers.
Andrew Bynum already has his knee operation scheduled, Kobe Bryant is looking at two and possibly even three surgeries on three different body parts and Luke Walton is considering serious back surgery as the only realistic way to extend his career.
Letters June 24, 2010
Valuing teachers
Dear ER:
Jan Stewart is a hero. It is a shame that she, like many other highly experienced and qualified educators are being thrown under the bus by our incompetent Hermosa Beach politicians in the name of fiscal restraint.
Getting together to celebrate the fourth
Legendary restaurateur Pete Moffet has organized the Manhattan Beach Winter Holiday Fireworks Show for 22 years. This will be the fourth year he has operated the July 4th extravaganza at Seaside Lagoon. Pete fought hard to open the lagoon for swimming on the Fourth, and after two years of teasing people who paid to enter […]
Shinehead headlines World Music Festival at the Lighthouse tonight (June 23)
School district cuts teachers, books
Parents and teachers filled the boardroom at Redondo Beach Unified School District headquarters Tuesday night in hopes of saving jobs and books. But the school board, facing a $3.6 million budget deficit, reluctantly passed a budget that includes the layoffs of 16 teachers and the elimination of a popular language arts workbook.
Six police officers slated for layoff
The City Council Tuesday night approved a budget that closes a $7.2 million shortfall. But the adopted budget is balanced in part by laying off six police officers and demoting two others.
Another purse almost snatched
For the third time this month, police last week responded to an attempted strong-arm robbery on downtown Manhattan streets. Manhattan Beach Police are still searching for the suspect(s) responsible for two downtown purse snatchings that occurred four days apart earlier this month. “The incidents don’t seem to be connected, but we don’t know,” said Manhattan […]
Dirty Hippie Radio: Listen Up, This Is Sand Section’s Time
If you’ve never heard of Sand Section, you might throw on their album and say, “Whoa, where’d these guys come from?” Well, they came from your backyard. Manhattan Beach-based Sand Section has released their debut album, “Truth Over Harmony,” and it sounds like they’ve been recording in the studio for years. I give their virgin […]
Advocates plan to carry visible guns
Three to five members of a gun-rights group plan to carry unloaded weapons in holsters while picking up trash in western Hermosa, to educate the public on the legal right to bear arms in plain sight in California. Under state law, people may carry ammunition along with the unloaded guns as well. The event is planned for about mid-July.
Pat’s parade, New Year’s fete axed
The City Council has axed funding for special events including the popular St. Patrick’s Day Parade and downtown New Year’s Eve celebration, with the unanimous approval of a lean budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Council members hope private sector promoters will find ways to keep the special events afloat. The council previously eliminated funding […]
Cruising into the sunset
In Sickness and in Health
Margaret Lazzari doesn’t simply paint isolated subjects, but over several years will delve into different themes, the result being that her oeuvre consists of numerous significant portfolios. There’s the Re-Inventions of Beauty series, the Floating series, the Cancer series, and the Wild Biology series. Each one seems to have accompanied or been precipitated by a life-changing moment in which the artist, now 56, found herself.
Man guilty of infractions in downtown incident
A man who claims Hermosa police zapped him with a Taser and struck him with a baton or a flashlight in a downtown incident was convicted of having an open container of alcohol and littering, and was fined $1,400 for the infractions. Commissioner Steven L. Berman handed down the decision on Thursday, following two half-days […]
About Town
Cleanup, oil The South Bay Chapter of Surfrider Foundation will hold a beach cleanup 10 a.m. Saturday at 26th Street, followed by participation in a Hands Across The Sand event to protest offshore oil drilling, 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. First Thursday The City Council agreed to help promote First Thursdays, in which 50-plus downtown […]
Have cello, will travel
The term musical genius is thrown around a bit easily. But in the unusual case of Dave Eggar, it actually applies.