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A new City on the Hill
Peninsula developer Robert Lowe hopes to return world renown to the former site of Marineland of the Pacific
MoreFrom Humboldt to Hermosa
3 Heads lead singer Heath Francis shows the way during the group’s CD release party Sunday night at Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach. Photo by Susan Weingartner (www.susanweingartner.com)
It was much more than just another night for a band on the rise.
You could even say it was a Eureka moment for the heads [...]
Beach Ballot Bandwagon–DD, EE, and the future of Redondo
Voters in Redondo Beach will be given two options on Nov. 4 for bringing future development to the ballot box.
Depending on whose arguments you believe, the consequences of this electoral choice could result in alternatively bleak scenarios. According to its opponents, Measure DD will severely damage the local economy, reduce public safety, hurt schools and [...]
Beach Ballot Bandwagon
A land use battle reaches its endgame
Voters in Redondo Beach will be given two options on Nov. 4 for bringing future development to the ballot box.
Depending on whose arguments you believe, the consequences of this electoral choice could result in alternatively bleak scenarios. According to its opponents, Measure DD will severely damage the local economy, [...]
Ward on race
Sometimes it’s not about who you are or what you believe, but the color of your skin. That sometimes came two years ago for Mitch Ward. He was sitting at the head of the Manhattan Beach city council ‘ a town that is 89 percent white, according to the 2000 demographic’as its first black mayor.
I’m [...]
Art Power! (or) The Power of Art
It began with a boring meeting, a complaint, two conversations and one crazy idea.
Five years ago, Nina Zak Laddon and Karen Baughman had just left the rather stuffy meeting of a local art group. The two artists exchanged a sidelong glance, and after they were safely out of earshot, they stopped to talk.
Did that [...]
A Firstman family affair
The ticket cost $18.
Joe Firstman was a month shy of 20 and determined to bust out of North Carolina. He had a vision of California that involved beaches, pianos, and beautiful women, a far departure from the Baptist Belt background he and generations of his family had endured in the Carolina countryside. He booked a [...]
South Bay music, Now and Then
Musicians are inspired by where they lived. Think of the Eagles nesting in the Hollywood Hills, Joni Mitchell taking in the views of Laurel Canyon, and Jackson Browne ruminating in Echo Park. Jim Morrison rummaged through trash cans in Venice, Neil Young lived on a ranch in Topanga Canyon.
Today, staples of the sound [...]
‘The Dead Guy that God sent home’
Following is a talk given September 13 by FDNY firefighter Bobby Senn at the unveiling of the City of Redondo Beach 9-11 Memorial. Senn, twice buried alive in the rubble of the World Trade Center, helped the city obtain the 300 pound WTC beam remnant for the memorial.
It was a cloudless, crisp, beautiful September [...]
Growing Pains
The popularity and success of beach volleyball grew new heights this year, aided by ‘ but not limited to ‘ NBC Sports’ prime-time Olympic coverage of matches featuring American teams, particularly two-time gold medalists Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor. Walsh, a Hermosa Beach resident and May and the U.S. men’s team of Phil Dalhausser and [...]
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