It’s a Cold War at the Wende Museum
Comrade, please step this way The Wende Museum of the Cold War is now open in Culver City One day the years from 1945 to 1991 will seem like a blip on the screen, but that was the era of the Cold War when tensions ran high between Russia and the United States, between democratic […]
New leadership, new challenges, addressed at new State of the City in Manhattan Beach
If one thing unified the many elements of the annual State of the City gathering Wednesday morning at the Joslyn Community Center, it was a sense of new beginnings. Among the speakers were newly appointed City Manager Bruce Moe, who just had his interim tag removed by City Council in closed session Tuesday […]
Mustangs’ last game at Fisher is a heartbreaker
If this was the last Mira Costa boys basketball game ever played in Fisher Gymnasium – and it probably was, since the cozy old cigar box of a gym is scheduled to be torn down sometime next fall – then it was a bittersweet way to go out. Memorable? Yes. Satisfying? No way. There […]
Mustangs’ boys basketball team’s last game at Fisher is a heartbreaker
If this was the last Mira Costa boys basketball game ever played in Fisher Gymnasium – and it probably was, since the cozy old cigar box of a gym is scheduled to be torn down sometime next fall – then it was a bittersweet way to go out. Memorable? Yes. Satisfying? No way. There […]
Signs of the times for Hermosa Beach as city mulls tweaks to brand
In Paul Beatty’s National Book Award-winning 2015 novel “The Sellout,” the narrator breaks down towns throughout Southern California by the color scheme of their street signs. The signs of Hawthorne, Torrance, and South Gate are of a “working-class cactus green” he writes, while Manhattan Beach’s “sky blue” totems signified a general lack of things to […]