Palos Verdes resident Tom Smith, flying high at 75

On the day he turned 16, Tom Smith earned his drivers license and his pilot’s license. Since then he’s put more miles in the sky than on the road by Chelsea Sektnan As a boy growing up on Catalina Island, Palos Verdes resident Tom Smith watched Navy jets soar off aircraft carriers and dreamed […]
The house by the Malaga Cove Library

The Realtor thought the location of the old Brashear residence was the reason it remained vacant for so many years. John and Jan Cartwright thought of the library as an asset by Stephanie Cartozian photos by Tony Labruno When John and Jan Cartwright purchased the storied Malaga Cove “Brashears’ Residence” in November, 1972 for $92,500, […]
Short film “Regarding Rose” shot in the South Bay hits the Silicon Film Festival

By Garth Meyer Past the Warren Beatty handprints and up two escalators, then a stairway, to a row of screening rooms at the former Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, the Silicon Beach Film Festival continued Sept. 12 with a short film shot in the South Bay. The 33-minute “Regarding Rose” was written and directed by […]