Luxist (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... and the airport. Odom seems to have stepped out of the triangle with his new Tarzana home but his Manhattan Beach home is squarely in it which might appeal to any athletes in the Los Angeles area looking for a home base. The five-bedroom home was built in 2002 by Gravatt Homes. It has been recently redone and includes a formal living room, formal dining room, large family room w/custom wet...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
The deeds one does in life are often what is most remembered by loved ones and the community at large after a person dies.Such is the case of May F. Link, who passed away just short of her 100th birthday on March 14 2005, but whose 57 years of servic...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Manhattan Beach residents have had it up to here with squat concrete planters along Oriental Blvd. and the 4-foot tall vegetation within them. Locals, like Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association member Edmond Dweck, are living in fear : "It will cause harm eventually...." These vegetative nuisances are said to create hazardous blind spots for drivers turning onto Oriental...
Varsity Times Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
Manhattan Beach Mira Costa (11-2) plays Mission Hills Alemany (10-3) on Friday night at College of the Canyons for the Western Division title, and if Alemany quarterback Vernon Adams decides to pass, he might want to make sure he knows...
Charles and Hudson (Free subscription) | yesterday
... in Los Angeles compared to anywhere else? Megan: Most of my clients are in the beach area of Manhattan Beach (where I live) the homes are big on size, rather than on style or good bones. Having worked in San Francisco and Boston I've been fortunate enough to work with homes that have great bones and lots of character. Learning to work with, oddly, over scaled rooms with little in the way...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
EDGEWOOD, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CPI Aerostructures, Inc. (“CPI Aero®”) (NYSE AMEX: CVU) today announced that on Friday, December 4th, the Corporate Socio-Economic Business Programs Office of the Northrop Grumman Corporation (“NGC”) presented the Company with its “World Class Team Award” in a ceremony held in Manhattan Beach, California. The Company was...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Transtock, Inc., a stock photography business specializing in transportation images, recently finalized a deal with Hachette Filipacchi Media. For the first time, both the still images and HD video footage from Road & Track and Car and Driver magazines will be available for licensing. The inclusion of this collection furthers the growth of...
FuturePundit (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... Gas & Electric Co., the state's largest utility, will proceed with a 15-year contract with Manhattan Beach start-up Solaren Corp., after receiving approval from the California Public Utilities Commission. The project, which is expected to go live in 2016, will use solar cells from Solaren on orbiting satellites to convert energy from...
The FanHouse - Nebraska Football (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... owns one home each in the neighboring beachside communities of Rolling Hills, Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach, Calif. It may be a triviality, but should Carroll choose to sue Weis for slander, such a factual error would only further erode Weis' credibility. Carroll, who was apprised of the accusation by Trojan sports information director Tim Tessalone, responded, "It's untrue. It's...
Dubspeed Driven (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... and try to stop your heart. SANCTIONING BODY The Boy Scouts of America started this craze in Manhattan Beach, CA back in 1953 and still hold the reigns on it. Other groups like Awana also run Pinewood Derby events. It’s a cool thing for the kids and easy for clubs to set up. All you need is a sloped track for the cars to roll down. Some tracks are more high tech and have computer timing...
The Rag Blog (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Ritchie Valens, left, and Bob Keane, then president of Del-Fi Records, on TV show in Los Angeles, 1958. Photo from Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images.Musician and music biz progidy:The ill-starred life of Bobby KeaneBy Carl R. Hultberg / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2009Bobby Kuhn was born in California in 1922, at Manhattan Beach, later famous for it’s surf scene. Since the surfers hadn’t...
Sommer Designs (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... Boutique is open to the public and located in the American Martyrs Gymnasium, 701 15th Street, Manhattan Beach from 10-5 pm today and tomorrow. There are lots of great vendors, many of which are handcrafted. If you are local, please stop by! I'll be back on Monday (I hope!) with more pictures. Have a fabulous weekend! XO (photos all courtesy of Joelle Leder )
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
It's an accident just waiting to happen. Manhattan Beach residents are fuming the city broke a promise to remove concrete planters along Oriental Blvd. that they say create a hazardous blind spot for drivers.
Money & Company (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
California regulators gave the go-ahead today to a power-purchase agreement involving the nation’s first solar power plant in space. Energy reporter Tiffany Hsu writes that Pacific Gas & Electric Co., the state’s largest utility, will proceed with a 15-year contract with Manhattan Beach start-up Solaren Corp., after receiving approval from the California Public Utilities Commission. The project,...
WWdN: In Exile (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... of that year, my friend Dave picked me up from LAX, and we went directly down the road to Manhattan Beach, to wait out the terrible rush hour traffic which stood between the airport and my house. After ten hours on an airplane, another 120 minutes to crawl 40 miles up the freeway wasn't exactly an appealing notion. We parked in a mostly-empty lot and walked down toward the water. There was...
