The 19th Annual Redondo Beach Lobster Festival, September 26th-28th at the Seaside Lagoon brings its blockbuster style event back packed with three days of live entertainment, Maine lobster dinners, and activities for everyone. This year the Festival, under the guiding hand of Signature Chef David Seawell, will debut a Lobster Bistro Package that will feature […]
The city of Torrance hosts its firs triathlon in 30 years this Sunday with a swim, bike and run course that will start and finish on Torrance Beach. The race is called the 15th annual Herbalife Triathlon but this is the first attempt at showcasing a more spectator friendly event in the South Bay with […]
This Friday through Sunday the National Volleyball League brings its 5th pro stop of the 2014 season to host the Hermosa Beach Championships from September 19 – 21. The tournament will feature 16 elite men’s and women’s teams competing for a prize purse of $50,000 on eight courts just north of the Hermosa Beach pier. […]
Post Labor Day heat is now commonplace down here in the South Bay and will surely play a definitive role in everybody’s weekend agenda. Shade, air-conditioning, and a dip in the Santa Monica Bay, where South Bay beaches are registering an approximate 72 degrees, are easy answers to a sweltering Saturday & Sunday. So is […]
With the spirit of Aloha in mind, Barry Hatchett’s 8th Annual Beach Shorts Film Fest returns to the South Bay this Saturday August 16th. Basically, the Beach Shorts Film Fest is a two chapter event with the first chapter dedicated to short films 6 to 10 minutes long with surfing or beach lifestyles as the […]
Torrance is rich in skateboarding history and has been a backdrop for all types of classic skateboard magazine spreads, down from the 1970s all the way to the 21st century. The last time Vanguard Skate & Surf Shop hosted a skateboard contest all the South Bay surf shops showed up for some industry fun that […]
Dust off your cowboy hat, pull on your boots and come on out to the scenic members only Empty Saddle Club in Rolling Hills Estates as Switzer Learning Center and The Depot’s Chef Shafer present Boots, Buckles & BBQ, a western themed evening to benefit the students of Switzer Learning Center, a nonprofit school serving […]
One of the more pertinent topics around the South Bay water cooler after another glorious 4th of July weekend has nothing to do with all the partying and extra law enforcement that surge around here during America’s birthday, but the shark bite that took place just south of the Manhattan Beach Pier last Saturday. By […]
It feels like the beginning of that stereotypical movie where said small town in America is trapped in a rabid summer heat, painted in with library-esq boredom and the only thing that can save anybody is a spring break like beer bash furnished with sun-burns, bikinis, and bad decisions. The feeling only compounds itself when […]
In a way this South Bay weekend is a mere warm-up to next weekend’s 4th of July bonanza that will surely take place around the beach cities as America’s independence celebration casts off on a three-day pleasure cruise around the South Bay (4th of July lands on a Friday this year). Oil up and fix […]