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El Segundo

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Beer Belly Celebrates 1st Anniversary

    It feels like much longer than a year has passed since Jimmy and Yume Han opened Beer Belly, the Koreatown craft beer bar that introduced the Hite-heavy neighborhood to a volume and variety of local-brewed suds like it had never seen. But sure enough, this weekend will mark the bar's one year annive ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    This Weekend: Local Brewers' Festival A Poolside Beer Party

    Why go to LAX, get on a plane, and fly to Vegas for a pool party when you can drive to the Four Points by Sheraton LAX, park for free, and get your pool party on right here? Our weather's better -- and so is the beer. Saturday, May 12, from noon to 5:00 p.m., thirteen of the best local and Californ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    Fishing Boat With 20 Illegals Lands in El Segundo

    If you plan on coming to America in a small "panga" boat, try to land in Venice. Stinking wet with ragged clothes on, people will assume you belong. Unfortunately for this group of 20 suspected illegals, likely from Mexico, their boat came ashore along a wide-open stretch of beach in El Segundo. Yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Rock & Brews: Gene Simmons, Craft Beers Big Televisions

    We're good with Russell, Bill and Richard but as far as Simmonses are concerned, Gene has got to go. With a tongue like an unfurling red carpet and a mouth as wide and bilious as a landfill, the bassist once known as Chaim Weitz has carved out a sizeable entertainment business empire. And now, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2012

    Chevron Refinery in El Segundo 'Avoided Paying Millions of Dollars in Taxes'

    It's officially election season in America, and few topics are hotter or divide us more than taxes: Should the rich pay more? Do the wealthy carry the rest of us? Do corporations pay their fair share? On that last one, KCET's news series, SoCal Connected, might have a partial answer:

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Barbara's at the Brewery 13th Anniversary Party

    Jessica SandovalTap Handles at Barbara's​At a time when the average L.A. beer bar seems to be about 13 weeks old, Barbara's at the Brewery turns 13 years old. So GM Erik Huig, aka son of Barbara, is unleashing the best beer list you will find anywhere in Los Angeles tomorrow night, Saturday, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    4 Double Black IPAs That Debuted in 2011: Or, Crossing Over to the (Very) Dark Side

    In the last twelve months, the craft beer world has welcomed new flavors from a slew of emerging styles including the rye saison (Avery's Eighteen), the wheat IPA (El Segundo Brewing's Picket Fence) and the seasonal imperial pumpkin ale (Flying Dog's The Fear). But no new style was more exciting for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Holiday Food Drive Roundup

    Bellmore Library​Did you stock up on too much food for the holidays? Any Thanksgiving non-perishable leftovers? Make the most out of it and donate to these local food drives. According to the L.A. Regional Food Bank, the most coveted food products are rice, beans, canned meat, canned vegetable ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Schat's Bakery: From Mammoth to El Segundo

    Guzzle & NoshThe exterior of Schat's Bakkery in Bishop and a shot of their pecan pullaway bread.​Generations of skiers and mountaineers have stopped at Erick Schat's Bakkery in Bishop, perhaps for a loaf of their famous shephearder's bread, perhaps for a few of the deep-fried doughnuts known a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2011

    Burger Alert: More Five Guys Headed to L.A.

    Armadillo​ The East Coast burger chain Five Guys continues to zero in on Southern California territory, with plans for several more locations in the works. One of those is set to open near USC's campus near Figueroa Street and Adams Boulevard, and another on Wilshire Boulevard. According to th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    BAM!!! Beer, Art & Music Festival in Santa Monica This Sunday

    Brewing craft beer is an art. That's why the name changed from microbrew to craft brew. The Second Annual BAM Fest (Beer, Art & Music Festival) will be held in Santa Monica on this Sunday, October 9, from 1-6 p.m. BAM celebrates the trifecta of locally produced art, music and, most importantly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Raving For The Rich: Burning Man Can be Done in Relative Comfort if You're Elon Musk

    avramcYou can almost smell this photo.​We've never been tempted to feel the burn, frankly, because Burning Man is such a hippy affair, what with the pungent, sobriety challenged people and unpaved conditions. Not our idea of fun. However, it turns out that the annual Black Rock psychedelic sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Art Sex Crime Tagging Crew Targeted in L.A. County Sweep: 8 Alleged Graffiti Vandals Arrested

    MySpaceArt Sex Crime has a MySpace page.​Cops fanned out across the L.A. area in pursuit of members of Art Sex Crime, an 8-year-old tagging crew they say is responsible for more than 1,600 acts of vandalism: 11 people were arrested yesterday in eight different SoCal cities -- mostly in the sou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Openings: 3Twenty Wine Lounge & Sammy's Woodfired Pizza

    Guzzle & Nosh​Two openings to report. Today, the awkwardly named 3Twenty Wine Lounge on La Brea (just south of 3rd) officially opens to the public. The owner, Edgar Poureshagh, is a former wine rep, and the chef, Michelle Salah, comes from the Spotted Pig in New York. Look for lots of Enomatic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    L.A. joins the Craft Beer Revolution: ColLAboration Rock & Brews

    Daniel DrennonRob Croxall, El Segundo Brewing, with Jennifer Greenhalgh, Rock and Brews​ This past weekend, legions of L.A. beer fans descended upon two beer "events" -- ColLAboration 2 in Hollywood on Saturday and the Rock and Brews Festival in El Segundo on Sunday. The huge turnout and joyo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    Barbie, 7 Kens Scale Mattel Headquarters in El Segundo, Protest Doll Boxes Made From Indonesian Rainforests

    Molly Peterson/KPCCProtest Barbie has brief wig malfunction​Apparently inspired by last month's super meta Disney protest -- in which Burbank activists dressed as Mickey and Minnie chained themselves to the front gates of corporate headquarters and hung a banner reading "Disney: Destroying Ind ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2011

    Abuse at L.A. County Jails

    Molly Peterson/KPCCProtest Barbie has brief wig malfunction​Apparently inspired by last month's super meta Disney protest -- in which Burbank activists dressed as Mickey and Minnie chained themselves to the front gates of corporate headquarters and hung a banner reading "Disney: Destroying Ind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Andrew Garton, Hawthorne Police Officer, Dies in Motorcycle Collision With Another Cop in Torrance

    Torrance PD​Updated at the bottom: Witnesses described the scene before crash as "chaotic." The death of Garton is reported in an update on the next page. Two motorcycle police officers were "badly hurt" when they collided during a funeral procession for a late Manhattan Beach cop in Torrance ... More >>

  • News

    May 26, 2011

    Rich Fireman Named in Shoplifting

    In El Segundo, where firefighters make $210,000 a year, anger spills over

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    L.A. Beaches Are Dirtier This Year, But a Surf Spot Called 'Shitpipe' Gets an A For Water Quality (Go Figure)

    Heal the Bay​We know our friends at the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau are always hard at work thinking of new ways to attract tourists to our fair city. Heal the Bay's latest L.A. Beach Report Card suggests some new attractions, such as lumpy water, waves you can smell, and, of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Al Qaeda, Other Terror Groups Reportedly Use 'vBulletin' Technology to Communicate: Fox Calls Out its Maker, L.A.'s Internet Brands

    YouTubeAl Qaeda training video.​An L.A.company is under fire for creating the technology that reportedly allows terror groups like Al Qaeda to recruit members and plan attacks. Fox News this week called out El Segundo-based Internet Brands for its group-discussion platform vBulletin. Of cours ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Food Truck Friday: Ragin Cajun

    Watching him tease, entice and cajole passersby to try food from his Ragin Cajun truck (@cajunonwheels), it's hard to believe that Stephen Domingue ever had a problem with self-promotion. After being eliminated on the second episode of cross-country reality show "The Great Food Truck Race," oste ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    LETTERS: MINKOW STINKOW

    Watching him tease, entice and cajole passersby to try food from his Ragin Cajun truck (@cajunonwheels), it's hard to believe that Stephen Domingue ever had a problem with self-promotion. After being eliminated on the second episode of cross-country reality show "The Great Food Truck Race," oste ... More >>

  • News

    October 14, 2010

    A Stink in El Segundo Over Cadillac Salaries

    Cops earn $175,000, firefighters $210,000, in a town with few criminals or fires

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    LAX Police Dispatched Outside Of Airport To Help Other Cops

    ​LAX police are often dispatched to help aid other cops in neighboring cities, according to a two-month investigation by Los Angeles radio station KNX 1070 Newsradio. In the past year and a half alone, airport officers were dispatched about 17 times to help aid police in nearby cities. "We'r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Ask Mr. Gold: Best BBQ, or Sunshine on a Gloomy Day

    Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: So okay, not to be like everybody else who does this, but... It's my wife's birthday, and we gotta get a big bunch of barbecue - Southern American, not Southern Korean - for a group of 10ish. There are a lot of barbecue restaurants out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Ask Mr. Gold: Stranded At (Or Near) LAX? Head To Mariscos Chente

    Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I am meeting a relative at LAX on a night when the Encounter restaurant is closed. Is there something nearby that you can recommend? It could be for drinks, some decent food, or preferably both. --Thomas, Los Angeles Dear Thomas: Someday ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Save us, WWE and Barbie! Mattel reports a revenue turnaround and sighs with relief

    Can Barbie save us from the incredible, persistent 12 percent to 14 percent unemployment that has ravaged Los Angeles city and county?The folks over at Mattel are doing something right -- gobbling up successful stuff like World Wrestling Entertainment. Now, they're reporting a key turnaround in thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    Mattel Working On Straight-To-Big-Screen-Franchise Toys

    barbie.com​Looking to cut out that long wait between childhood phenomenon and big-screen blockbuster, El Segundo-based toymaker Mattel has begun developing toys that have Hollywood storylines and direct-to-film pedigree built in. New York Magazine's Vulture blog reports that Mattel has alrea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Light Rail Coming To The 'Wood And Beyond

    Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday approved a light-rail line that would run down the "Crenshaw corridor" from Exposition Boulevard to LAX. The line, which could open in 2018, would run through parts of Inglewood, Hawthorne and El Segundo as a much-needed north-sou ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Sandwiches

    Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday approved a light-rail line that would run down the "Crenshaw corridor" from Exposition Boulevard to LAX. The line, which could open in 2018, would run through parts of Inglewood, Hawthorne and El Segundo as a much-needed north-sou ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2009

    THERE'S NO SEGUNDO LIKE EL SEGUNDO

    Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday approved a light-rail line that would run down the "Crenshaw corridor" from Exposition Boulevard to LAX. The line, which could open in 2018, would run through parts of Inglewood, Hawthorne and El Segundo as a much-needed north-sou ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2009

    Ice Pick of the Week: We Are the Worlds

    Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday approved a light-rail line that would run down the "Crenshaw corridor" from Exposition Boulevard to LAX. The line, which could open in 2018, would run through parts of Inglewood, Hawthorne and El Segundo as a much-needed north-sou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    Is SoCal Aerospace Crashing -- Again?

    In an ominous sign that Southern California's aerospace industry might be repeating the massive downsizing of the 1990s, Northrop Grumman today announced 750 layoffs, to occur within the next few months. According to the Daily Breeze, most of the terminations are expected to fall at the company's El ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    July 6, 2006

    Ask Mr. Gold: Gumbo

    In an ominous sign that Southern California's aerospace industry might be repeating the massive downsizing of the 1990s, Northrop Grumman today announced 750 layoffs, to occur within the next few months. According to the Daily Breeze, most of the terminations are expected to fall at the company's El ... More >>

  • News

    October 6, 2005

    The Bridges of L.A. County

    Let us now praise famous spans

  • News

    October 6, 2005

    Bay Watchers

    Mouse-surfing swells, breaks and Sheilas

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Outing Polluters

    Mouse-surfing swells, breaks and Sheilas

  • News

    July 14, 2005

    Kicking the Buckets

    Aerospace janitors strike

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2005

    Meet Me in the L.A. Surf: Bring Your Rod

    Aerospace janitors strike

  • Eat+Drink

    April 15, 2004

    Builder’s Emporium

    Aerospace janitors strike

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    Full Count

    Jackie Goldberg wants voters to decide three-strikes law

  • News

    May 2, 2002

    Smoke Signals

    Jackie Goldberg wants voters to decide three-strikes law

  • Columns

    April 25, 2002

    Rage Chronicles: The Girl With the Most Cake

    Jackie Goldberg wants voters to decide three-strikes law

  • News

    August 30, 2001

    Animal Nature

    Can Marcia Mayeda save county animal control?

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    Letters

    Can Marcia Mayeda save county animal control?

  • News

    May 10, 2001

    Barking for Change

    Torrance wants more say over its pets

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    Rocket Man

    William Webber’s memory of fire

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