Suspected bomb in Redondo Beach cleared [UPDATE]
Shortly after 8 p.m. on Thursday the Redondo Beach Police department was contacted by the U.S. Military about two possibly dangerous active military men in the area. According to Redondo Beach Police Department Capt. Jeff Hink, the pair was suspected of having an explosive device in a white Dodge Ram truck, and they were potentially […]
Police respond to suspected bomb in Redondo Beach
A police bomb squad responded to a reported bomb believed to possibly be located in a white Dodge Ram truck in the parking lot outside Living Spaces Furniture in Redondo Beach. Redondo Beach Police arrived at 9 p.m. after receiving a report from military police and detained two active duty military personnel believed to be […]
Peninsula warms to skatepark idea
Ellen November is a mother of two grown children, neither of whom skateboarded. Yet for the past two years she’s been just about the biggest “skateboard mom” on the hill as she leads the effort to build a skateboard park in Palos Verdes. “I don’t know exactly why I’m passionate about it, but I am,” […]
Rancho Palos Verdes Council rescinds Dog Beach
A little more than a month after the Rancho Palos Verdes city council approved a one-year pilot program for an off-leash dog beach below Trump National Golf Club, council members returned to the issue Tuesday night with their proverbial tails between their legs. The council made an about-face and voted 3-to-1 to make the beach […]
A Window into the World: chatting it up with John Teague and Richard Stephens
It’s one week before the big opening at Cannery Row Studios. Artist John Teague and gallery owner Richard Stephens are done for the day. Oh, wait, now it’s time to face the nation – or at least the local media. “Places in the Mind: Paintings and Sculpture” will be on view beginning this Saturday (reception […]
Hermosa Beach oil foes look north
As a ballot battle looms over oil drilling in Hermosa Beach, some opponents are turning their attention 80 miles north, where voters in another coastal town overwhelmingly rejected a drilling project two years ago. Hermosan Jeff Cohn, who spearheads the anti-drilling website NoBPinHB.com, said opponents have contacted their counterparts in Carpinteria, where drilling was defeated […]
Hermosa Beach mayor trumpets economy, settlement
Hermosa Beach Mayor Howard Fishman trumpeted a rebounding economy and the recent settlement of a potentially bankrupting lawsuit, as he delivered the annual State of the City address to a standing room crowd thick with civic leaders. Fishman told the assemblage at the Beach House hotel that a recent midyear budget report showed a 4 […]
Fond farewell for retiring Hermosa Beach city manager
Hermosa Beach Mayor Howard Fishman upstaged his own State of the City address by kicking off a series of tributes to retiring City Manager Steve Burrell, who was serving his last day on a job he held for 18 years. “Mr. Burrell left some shoes that will be pretty hard to fill,” Fishman said […]
Around Hermosa Beach
Oil outreach E&B Natural Resources Management Corporation has reached out to Hermosa Beach residents with an open letter from President Steve Layton, promising an open dialogue with the community and an extensive environmental review before voters weigh a planned drilling project next year. The E&B proposal to slant-drill for oil and gas under the ocean, […]
“Delicacy”: a too repetitive web [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Delicacy,” a film starring the incomparable Audrey Tautou, is a poor translation for the French title “Délicatesse,” as the title was meant to transmit, not the delicacy of her character but her finesse, grace, elegance and refinement. This distinction is important because “Delicacy” is the love story of Tautou’s character Nathalie, how she is consumed […]
The Nightlife: Adult Easter Fun –The Keg Hunt
The keg hunt. Get it? Say it out loud. It sounds like egg hunt, right? And it happens on the Saturday before Easter. It only took me . . . well, way longer than it should have to make the connection. Saturday April 7 is the 5th annual keg hunt in El Segundo. Eight bars […]
Mira Costa teacher brings energy, passion to hard subject
Linda Gesualdi stood at the front of her math classroom one spring afternoon, greeting her pre-calculus students with a smile as bright as her floral-printed dress. “Ms. G!” a passerby yelled in a deep voice, as he walked by her door. “Oh, Ms. G. you look so lovely,” a pony-tailed girl said, as she strode […]
Cultural Arts Commission clashes with Manhattan Beach City Council
Recent Manhattan Beach City Council decisions allocating Public Art Trust funds for two city projects have spurred a debate between the council and the Cultural Arts Commission centered around which body has the power to spend these funds. On Jan. 17, the commission recommended allocating $200,000 for the centennial art project, and $63,000 for the […]