Surfboard with broken leash prompts crowd to call lifeguards
A surfboard that washed ashore with a broken leash in El Porto late Sunday afternoon prompted a concerned crowd watching the 10- to 20-foot surf to flag down a Los Angeles County Lifeguard truck. “The lifeguard truck just happened to be passing by. I had watched the driver close up his tower in front of […]
FOX 11’s Dickert calls the weather from home
Not long ago, before surging rates of the novel coronavirus again siloed Americans in their homes, meteorologist and TV presenter Rick Dickert would tell millions of viewers about the weather from a studio in West L.A. The Redondo Beach native would design graphics – the scenes and storms that appear behind him on the air […]
All Ball Sports: Chargers win Fourth straight; fire coach next day
Chargers head coach Anthony Lynn learned his lesson the hard way: sometimes it’s not what have you done for me today, it’s what did you do in the middle of the season? Lynn was fired Monday, after four years as head coach and only one playoff appearance. He was cut loose immediately after the Chargers […]
Redondo’s moveable feast [restaurant review]
I first ran across the term “moveable feast” as the title of Ernest Hemmingway’s memoir, not knowing its original meaning in religious practice. It refers to a holiday with a changeable date but I had thought Hemingway was referring to a picnic, which I envisioned as involving sandwiches, potato salad, and because it’s Ernest, some […]
Skechers fund contributes $680,000 to struggling Manhattan Beach restaurants; Supervisor Hahn starts grant program
The Skechers Restaurant COVID relief fund has raised $680,000 and disbursed 28 grants to restaurants in downtown and north Manhattan Beach. But Skechers president Michael Greenberg hopes that this is only the beginning of the effort. Greenberg, who headquartered his company in Manhattan Beach three decades ago after making the city his adoptive hometown, last […]