by Kevin Cody In 2016, Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach city councils banned short term vacation rentals (STVRs) in residential neighborhoods. Both cities subsequently were sued by residential property owners with short term rentals in the coastal zone, where most of the cities’ hundreds of STVRs are located. The coastal zone extends 1,000 feet inland from the mean high tide. In Manhattan Beach, the coastal zone includes El Porto and most of the town west of Ardmore Avenue. Hermosa’s coastal…
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MBCC Theater’s musical mayhem is a treat
Four weddings – and no funeral “The Drowsy Chaperone” is wide awake in Manhattan Beach by Bondo Wyszpolski Sometimes I think the Manhattan Beach Community Church Theater is about to bite off more than it can chew, but then I catch one of their shows and I’m often highly impressed. I guess I shouldn’t be,…
“Io Capitano” – Captain of all [MOVIES]
“Io Capitano,” nominated for this year’s Academy Award for Best International Film from Italy, is a complicated web and complex film. Written and directed by Matteo Garrone, “Io Capitano” is the story of two teenage boys from Dakar, Senegal with stars in their eyes and Europe as a goal. It’s not so much the endless…
New Chinese in Redondo, brekkie burritos in Hermosa, lots of wine events, and other dining news
New Guys In Town: The South Bay has a new Chinese restaurant, and their menu goes well beyond the Americanized fare that is common in our area. As the name Dumpling Mix suggests, housemade noodles, wontons, and dumplings are a specialty, but they offer regional items from Taiwan, Sichuan, and Shanghai as well. The interior…
Temple of beef
People who enjoy lively, loud restaurants sometimes say quiet restaurants are like dining in a library. To some people, that would not sound like a bad thing. We’ve found books we loved, and sometimes people we loved too, amid the shelves of arcane knowledge, witty or serious stories, and the volume in the nonfiction section…
