Most Excellent Mosa [restaurant review]
If you see only one canvas by a painter, you’ll have a glimpse at their sense of composition, their skill at brushwork, perhaps their inventiveness with color. And that’s all, a glimpse, because you don’t know the context of the piece. Was it their first sale or a mature work, perhaps a commission rather than […]
South Bay Community Calendar 1-9-2020
Blood drives, web privacy, Improve challenge, spiny succulents, Wild & Scenic
On Manhattan Government 1-9-2020
City can beat county to sales tax increase by Mark Burton As of the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2018, Manhattan Beach’s net pension liabilities were over $74 million. Yes, that means we are underfunded or, in plain English, in debt in the amount of $74 million. As noted in the City’s most recent Comprehensive […]
Sea Hawks win opener with assist from Leuzinger trainer
The Redondo boys basketball team started its quest for an eighth consecutive Bay League title with a much-closer-than-it-sounds 59-51 victory over Leuzinger Tuesday night. More impressively, they held Amound Anderson, who came in to the Sea Hawk Pavilion averaging 28 points a game, to just one point in the Bay League opener for both teams. […]
Mira Costa named a top U.S. STEM school
Mira Costa High School has been named one of the top schools in the United States for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education, known as STEM. Newsweek magazine and Stem.org worked together to compile the top 5,000 STEM high schools in the nation. MCHS, which as part of an MBUSD districtwide effort has focused […]
Manhattan Beach About Town
Beach walk Interested in how King Tides impact the Southern California coastline? Attend the City of Manhattan Beach’s upcoming beach walk to explore beach ecology, capture the changing shoreline, and learn about beach dune restoration. The city has partnered with USC Sea Grant to conduct its first-ever Urban Tides Beach Walk. Urban Tides is a […]
Homeless man found at local school dies
A homeless man found with his pet dog on the campus of Meadows Elementary the week before Christmas was taken by paramedics to a local hospital and later died, according to school officials and the Manhattan Beach Fire Department. Kevin Bobek was a familiar figure in the local community. He and his dog, Nola, frequented […]
Where It All Started: The History of the Super Bowl
Excitement grows larger as a day passes closer to one of America’s biggest sporting events. With approximately 115 million viewers each year, it’s no doubt that it has become a part of the American culture. A showdown of the best Football teams in the United States, the event has become much more than entertainment. It’s […]
South Bay arts calendar for Jan. 9 to 15
Friday, January 10 Fortune cookies, art titles inside “Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?” which is billed as a “Galvanizing Art Challenge,” takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. at La Venta Inn, 796 Via Del Monte, Palos Verdes Estates. About 30 artists will spin the wheel of fortune and get a fortune cookie with […]