Bands at the Lagoon: Friday Night Lights at BeachLife

by Gavin Heaney  I brought my trusty, rusty beach chair to BeachLife this year. As I flipped my old fold-out, I realized there’s something still grassroots about setting down your chair and throwing down a blanket at an outdoor show. It’s a free zone where anyone can claim their own little base camp. Normally people […]

Victoria’s Mexican Grill, high standard, sweet finish

Two establishments on Western in RPV dish out the classics  by Richard Foss  One of the first questions that comes up when I mention a restaurant is “What’s their specialty?” Sometimes that’s easy to answer, because there really is something they serve that is head and shoulders above the rest of their menu items. Sometimes […]

Murder, rape, drug charges for Michael DiGiorgio against nine women

Redondo Beach Police patch

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office has charged a South Bay man with murder and 18 counts of sexual assault and drug offenses regarding nine women, one of whom died at the alleged perpetrator’s Redondo Beach residence in 2020. All of the charges are felonies. If convicted, DiGiorgio’s sentence could be life in prison.  According […]

Pianist David Benoit goes south

by Merlin David Pianist and composer David Benoit grew up in Hermosa beach and has lived on the Palos Verdes Peninsula for the past four decades. “The Peninsula will always be my home,” he said recently, after disclosing he is leaving the South Bay to live in Laguna Beach.  During his decades on the Peninsula, […]

Housing first… The Moonstone opens in Redondo Beach

Then there is the second, third, fourth things: primary care, mental health, socialization and employment —  Moonstone case manager Richard Pacheco    by Garth Meyer “Sometimes we need to have honest, frank conversations with our friends and neighbors about our friends and neighbors’ need for housing,” said L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell, at a ribbon-cutting […]