The blissful investigation: the state of happy hour in the South Bay
Somebody had to do it. The Easy Reader this week turned its investigative team loose on the one of the most incomprehensible, sprawling, engrossing issues facing the South Bay – the current state of the local happy hour. Reporters by nature are reluctant drinkers and delicate eaters, but reluctantly we did drink, and indelicately we […]
Beach Magazine: Destinations issue
On the cover: Easy Reader’s Chelsea Sektnan travels back to a simpler time to commune with nature.
Destination Bliss: Carmel by the Sea
Destination weddings allow wedding couples and their guests to escape the trappings of daily life during the days leading up to the most magical of all days.
Greek meets Texan in So Cal wine country
Manhattan Beach’s Petros opens a new restaurant at Fess Parker Inn A faded Texas flag flies over the Fess Parker Inn in Los Olivos, a wine lovers destination east of Santa Barbara. Parker was born in Texas and considered this place to be a Texas embassy. But they might also consider flying a Greek flag […]
Barfly in Brittany
Even in this day and age, the French respect the two hour shutdown of their country so everyone can enjoy a leisurely lunch J’habite entre le Brie et le Chateaubriand dans la vallee de la Loire. Now, I don’t expect many of you to be able to translate this, but there are three words that […]
Shanghai Dreams: A Day in the Life, 08.01.11
Jonsi wakes me up. It’s a pleasant change from the cheesy alarm ring tones on my ancient Nokia mobile, which was stolen yesterday — a dull Sunday afternoon at a Coffee Bean.
Slowing down in Big Sur
My fiancé John and I spent our first engagement anniversary up in Big Sur, a place that I believe to be the most beautiful part of California. This was the second year in a row we’ve spent vacation time in the area. Last year, John told me we were going camping, drove me hundreds of […]
Classroom overcrowding forces Hermosa Beach to act
The Hermosa Beach City School District is in trouble. Test scores have steadily risen in the past few years, but so has enrollment. Valley and View Schools are over-flowing with young children, and the school district has nowhere to put them. “In the mid-1950s we had about 1400 students,” School Board member Jack Burns said […]
Hermosa Beach budget on track
The Hermosa Beach City Council approved a $32 million balanced budget for the upcoming fiscal year at Tuesday’s meeting. The city’s overall financial outlook is improving. Revenue projections for the next year exceed expenditures by seven percent. Still, the city is proceeding with caution. “One of the Council’s goals to achieve by 2018 is to […]
Redondo Beach Library management reconsidered
Changes are brewing for the Redondo Beach Library, a two-building institution whose management structure hangs in the balance as the City Council considers the 2013-2014 budget.
Manhattan Beach girl honored hero at Crohn’s & Colitis awareness walk
Five-year-old Abbie Neitz was on all fours with her big brown eyes glued to the playground turf at Polliwog Park early Monday afternoon. She had seen a pink gem—matching her frilly top and Puma tennis shoes—twinkling under the sun but could no longer locate it.