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Compiled by Sally P. Flack. To submit calendar items, please email sally@easyreadernews.com Friday, July 10 South Bay Greek Festival – Redondo Beach 3 days of food, dance, and culture. Music, games, dancing. and the best Greek Food in town. Additional dates include: Saturday, July 11 noon. — 10 p.m and Sunday, July 12, noon – […]
by Diana MacDougall Two years ago, a then-85-year-old Mary Lou Simms walked up the stairs to the upper deck of the King Harbor Yacht Club and saw a framed collection of portraits honoring the Win’ard Yacht Club Commodores, from 1949 to 1960. The club was founded in 1949, and merged with the Redondo […]
by Nikki Yunker The South Bay has over 200,000 families. It needs a kids’ museum, Redondo Beach mom Christina Domer concluded during the pandemic. During that period she and her young son, who is now seven, visited the New Children’s Museum in San Diego. “We walked in the door and I was just like, ‘Oh […]
Thursday, June 25 Zonta Club at the Comedy Club The Zonta Club of South Bay is a chapter of an international nonprofit organization committed to advancing the status of women through service and advocacy. Enjoy a night of laughter at the Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. 1018 Hermosa […]
Event Spotlight ¡KOOKS! to reappear in Hermosa Cypress District The ¡Kooks! #1 exhibit at Gallery of Hermosa in November featured work by a dozen legendary Southern California surf inspired artists, among them former surfing magazine photographer Mike Balzer, Dogtown and Z-Boys film maker Stacy Peralta,and surfboard shaper Dennis Jarvis. Many of those same artists, and […]
by Garth Meyer A new Gallup National Health and Well-Being poll taken in the Beach Cities shows “historic highs,” at a time of national decreases. Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach had a combined Well-Being Index of 69.5 for 2025, their best yet, surpassing the national average of 60.1. The individual score for […]
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First this way, and then that “Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking, 1400-1850” by Bondo Wyszpolski Maybe I’m presuming, but I doubt that many people give much thought to the reciprocal relationship between drawings and prints. But for those inclined to, well, the J. Paul Getty Museum has an exhibition that goes into considerable depth […]
The bells may stop, but the ringing continues “Bells of Nagasaki: Music for Contemplation” is a special concert at St. John Fisher Church by Bondo Wyszpolski Eighty years ago this month — on August 6 and 9 — atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending the war with Japan but introducing a […]
by Paul Teetor The Mira Costa boys basketball team upset the Redondo Sea Hawks 69-68 Tuesday night to grab a share of the Bay League title. Mira Costa fell behind by double digits Tuesday in the regular-season finale between the teams, but that was a wake-up call for the Mustangs. They outscored Redondo 24-15 in […]
by Garth Meyer In a matter of “ordinance housekeeping” as described by Redondo Beach City Manager Mike Witzansky, the city council Tuesday voted 5-0 to move forward to establish a faster permit process to install electric vehicle charging stations. The action is the latest step for a 2015 state law that requires local jurisdictions to […]
by Gavin Heaney They took the stage unceremoniously, shadows in the dim smokey light. A rumbling bass dangerously starts in and its pulsing persistence quickens as primitive, pounding drums escalate the adrenaline. After an inordinately long intro, electric guitar comes scraping in with distorted, discordant swirls, chaotically adding dissonance to the deadly rhythm. Black Flag […]