Up, Up and Away
Story and photos by Bondo Wyszpolski The butterflies are out, or rather they’re in — inside of a walkthrough, tentlike pavilion created by Spineless Wonders and stocked with an abundance of painted ladies, blue morphos, giant swallowtails, and other tropical butterflies. SOAR invites us to cavort with these living bits of vividly-hued confetti as […]
Redondo High School basketball players test positive for COVID-19 after club tourney in Orange County [Update]
by Kevin Cody Over the last weekend in March, Redondo Union High Schoolboys basketball coach Nick Welch took the South Bay Supreme Basketball club team, which he coaches in the off season, to The Easter Classic 2021. Over 100 club teams participated in the annual tournament at The Map Athletic Facility, a 64,000 square-foot indoor […]
Hermosa Beach Vista School promises new direction in education, end to five decades of district divisiveness
by Kevin Cody Photos and video by Bo Bridges (BoBridges.com) In May 2015, James Scott wrote a letter to the editor that read, “Dear Easy Reader, When I was five years old, people I never met paid for my first kindergarten classroom. In fact, they paid for the whole school. It had a big […]
LA County Board of Supervisors votes to return Bruce’s Beach to family
by Mark McDermott The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to take initial steps towards the return of Bruce’s Beach to the Bruce family. Supervisor Janice Hahn, who has led the legislative effort to return the Manhattan Beach beachfront property currently owned by LA County and used as lifeguard offices, introduced two […]
Homie evolves, Mexican empire builder, remodeling blues, and Rosecrans after the Arclight
Betting on Hermosa: Unless you spend much time in Torrance or Harbor City, you probably haven’t heard of Tacos El Goloso. That mini-chain just doubled in size with an unusual strategy – they will now have two locations in Hermosa Beach. One is on PCH next to Baran’s 2239, the other the Amigo’s Tacos on […]
“Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street” – Very street smart [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street,” directed by Marilyn Agrelo based on the book by Michael Davis entitled Street Gang, answers so many of those questions that you didn’t know you should have asked. Like, whose brilliant idea was this and how did they get it off the ground? At a fateful dinner […]