If Dave Williamson dies and goes to heaven, it will look something like this. It’s a Sunday afternoon at El Segundo’s Library Park, and one of the best pitmasters in the world is behind a Santa Maria… ...

by Baran Taghvaei My parents and I went to the Sunday, June 21 World Cup group-stage match at Los Angeles Stadium between Iran and Belgium. Yet for me, a 16-year-old Iranian immigrant, what was… ...

by Mark McDermott When the Mira Costa baseball team came from behind to beat Agoura 9-7 in the CIF Southern Section Division 3 final on May 30 — winning the program’s first championship since 1953… ...

by Garth Meyer Redondo Beach again has a newly certified, state-required housing plan, after the city sent in a revision following a court ruling last year which called the original plan into… ...

by Garth Meyer Residents with family at Silverado Memory Care, on the Beach Cities Health District campus in Redondo Beach, are organizing to stop the facility from being closed as a result of a… ...

When Jazwares acquired Kellytoy in April 2020, Squishmallows was a three-year-old plush brand with a devoted niche following and little mass-market presence. Judd Zebersky saw the gap. More than 100… ...

by Kevin Cody In 2019, a 2022 groundbreaking date was set for a $374 million, 253,000 square foot Healthy Living Campus on the Beach Cities Health District’s 11-acre, hilltop site at Prospect and… ...

by Garth Meyer The North Redondo Beach Farmers’ Market will launch Wednesday, April 22, run by newly-formed nonprofit OurNRB, following a grass-roots effort begun in earnest last fall. The weekly… ...

by Laura Garber The Hermosa Beach City Council voted 5-0 Tuesday to approve the Nike After Dark Tour LA, a 13.1-mile women’s half marathon scheduled for October 24, clearing the way for what Nike… ...

by Kevin Cody Over 20 juvenile sharks, six- to eight-feet in length, were caught by fishermen on the Hermosa Beach Pier on Saturday, April 11. La Playita restaurant owner Harold Cohen said he saw the… ...

American BBQ Willingham’s Many places in the South Bay have something called barbecue on their menu, but few would pass muster in Texas, Kansas City, Chicago, or the other areas where hand rubbed and… ...

by Mark McDermott The Manhattan Beach Unified School District Board of Education has selected Dr. Kimberlie Linz as the district’s next superintendent, pending contract negotiations and final board… ...