Some Enchanted Evening: Diane Lauridsen and South Bay Ballet
Home to South Bay Ballet for the past 13 years, the dance studio on Sartori Avenue in Old Torrance is in a building with a long and storied past. It may have been a bank, says the company’s founder and artistic director Diane Lauridsen; it was probably several different clothing stores; and it was a […]
PIPELINE: Chris Stimpfl
Surf future looking up for Chris Stimpfl It’s a picturesque, four-foot, offshore, low tide beautiful afternoon looking more like Waikiki Beach than the Palos Verdes Cove. Ben Fortun and I are stroking out after a few go-behinds on an outside left when this 4-foot blond, goofy-foot, grommet fly’s off the top right in front […]
“THAT’S PAT!” DropZone profile on Legendary Shaper Pat Ryan
“It was the perfect time to learn how to shape because no one really knew what they were doing.” — Shaper Pat Ryan on the late 1960s shortboard revolution Jr. For over four decades, Pat Ryan been contributing to the evolution in surfboard design. The San Diego native moved to Manhattan Beach in 1965, […]
Good News on Los Angeles’ Skid Row
It’s Saturday morning, the first day of the month, and that means the line at the soup kitchen where Jeff Dietrich works is down to about 600. For more than 40 years, Dietrich and his wife Catherine Morris have worked at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker Hospitality Kitchen in Skid Row, chopping onions, scrubbing pots, […]
Police News; December 3 – 9 – Robbery, ATM fraud, stolen cell phone returned
On December 3 on the 2300 block of Hawthorne Blvd a suspect stole a cell phone from a sales counter at a business. According to police, an officer pretended to be the vicitim and made contact with the suspect via text…
Manhattan Beach police find more victims in cab driver sexual assault case
At least two more victims in the South Bay have come forward since Manhattan Beach police issued a public notice about a cab driver who is being accused for sexual assault, authorities said on Friday. Police are currently investigating to determine whether these cases involve the same suspect, Manhattan Beach Police Department detective Mike Rosenberger […]