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CONTENTS F E AT U R E S

D E PA RT M E N TS

12 48 HOURS IN MANHATTAN BEACH To the pier and back again with food, surf, and California dreams in between

WELCOME FROM THE CEO

36 CITY MAP AND NEARBY ATTRACTIONS

22 SOCCER TOWN

70 PARKS & CULTURAL SPACES

Manhattan Beach, the World Cup, and AYSO: how a small beach city punches far above its weight in the global game

71 EVENTS CALENDAR

28 CUTTING EDGE

80 ADVERTISERS INDEX

72 BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Manhattan Beach is at the forefront of the wellness revolution, but it’s not-so-secret ingredient is the oldest recipe for health there is—a sense of community

40 THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF MANHATTAN BEACH A small town of just four square miles, Manhattan Beach contains distinct, charming neighborhoods

64 EDUCATION IN MANHATTAN BEACH It’s a school morning in Manhattan Beach, which means it also looks a little like a neighborhood party

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ABOUT THE WRITER

ABOUT THE COVER

Mark McDermott Mark McDermott is an awardwinning journalist and longtime South Bay storyteller whose writing for Easy Reader News captures the people, culture, and character of the beach cities with depth, heart, and authenticity.

The cover photo was taken by renowned photographer and filmmaker Bo Bridges. Bridges’ limited edition fine art prints can be purchased online at www.bobridgesgallery.com or at his Manhattan Beach gallery, just steps from the iconic pier.

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The Perfect Southern California Day Trip! Visit Manhattan Beach, where ocean views stretch for miles and a unique, walkable shopping and dining district sits steps from the pristine sands and waters of the Pacific Ocean. Browse popular nationally known brands alongside thoughtfully curated boutiques where you will find the perfect treasure to take a little piece of this coastal gem home. Whether treating yourself to a spa day, enjoying lunch with friends, or shopping your way towards the stunning beach, Downtown Manhattan Beach is for everyone. Sip something cold in a classic dive bar, enjoy delicious ocean-view dining, stroll the iconic pier to the beloved Roundhouse Aquarium, walk the Volleyball Hall of Fame, and stay to inhale the ocean air, and view a stunning sunset. Enjoy!

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WELCOME

Welcome to Manhattan Beach. As President and CEO of the Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce, I’ve been proud to call this incredible community home for more than 25 years. Manhattan Beach is a place that truly has it all: award-winning schools, an unforgettable coastline, a thriving dining scene, and boutique shopping that keeps things local, personal, and full of character. Life here is both laid back and sophisticated. I like to describe it as Coastal Casual meets Beach Chic, relaxed, vibrant, and effortlessly elevated. Whether you’re here for a day, a season, or a lifetime, there’s always something new to discover and something familiar to love all over again. This guide is your invitation to explore it all, support our local businesses, and experience the energy that makes Manhattan Beach one of the most special coastal communities in the world.

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A Green Business voluntarily implements environmentally sustainable practices in areas like water conservation, waste reduction, energy efficiency, and pollution prevention.

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Downtown Shopping & Dining Destinations

Gum Tree

Discover the charm of Downtown Manhattan Beach, where relaxed beach culture meets elevated coastal style. Just steps from the iconic Manhattan Beach Pier, this walkable district invites you to spend the day exploring chic boutiques, nationally recognized brands, and locally loved shops. Savor everything from casual bites to stunning ocean-view dining, whether you’re shopping for the perfect find or enjoying a meal with a view, Downtown Manhattan Beach captures the effortless spirit of the California coast.

We are a locally owned home and gift shop specializing in everything you need for your cool California lifestyle. Established in 2008, we love to help you select the perfect gift.

1140 Highland Ave. 90266 | 310-318-2990 238 Pier Ave. 90254 | 310-376-8744 gumtreela.com @gumtree_la

Tabula Rasa Essentials

Waterleaf Home & Gift

A vibrant coastal boutique in the heart of Downtown Manhattan Beach, featuring beautifully curated gifts, breezy entertaining accents, luxurious candles, apothecary favorites, chic accessories, and charming children’s treasures, all just steps from the ocean.

Waterleaf is your destination for chic décor, tabletop, bedding, art, jewelry, and gifts. Enjoy in-store styling, furnishings, exceptional service, and beautiful complimentary gift wrap with every purchase.

919 Manhattan Ave. Suite A | 310-318-3385

1210 Morningside Dr. | 310-546-5400

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Downtown Shopping & Dining Destinations

Blue Diamond Jeweler

Estell Boutique

Fine craftsmanship and meaningful relationships create timeless gifts. Discover something beautiful for those you love, celebrate every milestone with elegance and care, and enjoy trusted gold buying and professional appraisals.

Effortless European style, flattering fits, and timeless pieces—discover your perfect look at Estell Boutique. Elevate your everyday wardrobe, because looking good shouldn’t feel like work. Confidence starts in your closet.

1009 Manhattan Ave. | 310-921-8707

912 A Manhattan Ave. | 310-985-7717

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Beach by Everything But Water

Strand Section

Beach by Everything But Water offers expertly curated designer swim and resortwear, with personalized styling to elevate your beach-tobrunch look—just steps from the sand in Manhattan Beach.

Founded by Manhattan Beach native Alissa Schiraldi, Strand Section offers personally curated pieces inspired by Southern California lifestyle and Alissa’s fashion industry experience. Support local and discover your next look.

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212 Manhattan Beach Blvd. | 310-504-0139

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Caffe Luxxe

Love & Salt

Come find out for yourself why Caffe Luxxe is consistently voted LA’s Most Loved coffee shop! Directly sourcing and roasting their own coffee since 2006.

Italian-inspired with Southern California soul. A boutique wine list and clever cocktail program similarly reflect the vibrant SoCal setting of the restaurant, located just steps from the Manhattan Beach pier.

904 Manhattan Ave. | 310-394-2222

317 Manhattan Beach Blvd. | 310-545-5252

Paradise Bowls

The Hook & Plow

Paradise Bowls blends organic açaí and pitaya bowls and smoothies, with fresh catering for teams and events. Always made with real, high-quality ingredients. Bringing a taste of the beach to every bowl.

Your friendly neighborhood spot for fresh, locally sourced food, craft drinks, and a welcoming vibe—where farm-to-table meets ocean-to-plate in the heart of Manhattan Beach.

919 Manhattan Ave. | 310-798-7100

1112 Manhattan Ave. | 424-304-2100

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Downtown Shopping & Dining Destinations

Growing Wild

MB Farmers’ Market

Coastal-inspired floral boutique offering fresh, orchid, and seasonal arrangements. Custom designs for everyday moments and special events in the heart of Manhattan Beach.

The Manhattan Beach Certified Farmers’ Market offers locally grown produce, artisanal foods, kids' activities, and live music. Located in Civic Center Plaza between City Hall and MBPD, Tuesdays from 11am to 3pm.

1201 Highland Ave. | 310-545-4432

Civic Center Plaza, 320 15th St.

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Uncorked Wine Shops

See you soon!

Enjoy an elevated wine tasting experience at Uncorked on our inviting patio, paired with cheese and charcuterie. Explore thoughtful gifts, baskets, certificates, and wine clubs featuring two bottles each month.

Shop, sip, stroll, repeat. Take a little sunshine home with you. Downtown Manhattan Beach makes it easy to turn a simple beach day into your favorite memory - and a feeling that brings you back for more.

1000 Manhattan Ave. | 310-372-2021

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ou have 48 hours in Manhattan Beach. Even though our fabled little beach town is known for its laidback vibe, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot to do. So, let’s do this right: your visit will begin and end at the Manhattan Beach Pier.

DAY ONE

Yes, you are on vacation, but in this rare instance, let us gently suggest an un-vacation-like thing to do. Get up early. Because if you want to see Manhattan Beach in its most native state, you’ll want to head down to the pier as early as you are able—7ish is ideal, or at most an hour or so later, to achieve what is locally known as “getting your stoke.” One of the specific quirks you’ll notice as you pass through the early waking hours of any true beach town is the curious behavior of that species of ocean-going mammals known as surfers. Heads pop out of windows and tousle-haired barefoot dudes run out onto the walk streets (the

Witness the Team USA Olympic beach volleyball teams training here. neighborhoods surrounding downtown have no streets, just sidewalks and back alleys) anxiously looking out towards the ocean with a single urgent question: Are there waves? If so, as you walk out onto the pier, you’ll

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have one of the best vantage points on the entire coast to watch the joyful process of surfers paddling into and catching waves. And as you look down the long, beautiful beaches for which the town is named, you’ll behold another, somewhat superhuman species: beach volleyball players. Many of the best players in the world either live locally or train here, including several Team USA Olympic beach volleyball teams, and they’ll be diving and leaping on the courts just below. After you take in the scene on the waves and on the beach, another perfect introduction to life at the beach awaits at the Roundhouse Aquarium. This small, but state-of-the-art marine wildlife facility at the end of the pier lovingly houses many local species, touch tanks, and a knowledgeable staff that will give you an introduction to the local ecosystem. Be sure to check out the octopuses on the second floor. And then it’s time to do breakfast, old school Manhattan Beach-style, which can only mean Uncle Bill’s Pancake House. Uncle Bill’s has been a Manhattan Beach

institution since 1961, which means it has outlasted trends, recessions, and the complete transformation of the downtown around it. The menu has evolved just enough to stay current, with additions like the Santa Fe omelette, for example, with chipotle sauce and avocado, but the signatures endure. The Expo ‘73 omelette (ham, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, onion and American cheese, topped with meat sauce and sour cream) has been on the menu since the year the VanAmburgh family bought the place, and if you order it, you will not need lunch. There will be a line on weekends because Uncle Bill’s is worth the wait. With breakfast handled, you have a full day of Downtown Manhattan Beach ahead of you, and the best way to experience it is on foot. The downtown grid is compact enough to walk end to end in ten minutes, but plan on spending considerably more time than that. Before you set out, coffee: goodboybob Coffee on Highland Avenue has quietly built an international reputation. The owner, Erich Joiner, is a commercial film director and production company head (he was in charge of the camera work on F1: the Movie) who became obsessed with the absence of a decent coffee shop near his Santa Monica office, so he eventually opened one himself. It was wildly successful, so Erich expanded to Manhattan Beach, half-expecting it to struggle in a much smaller town. It hasn’t. With impeccably sourced single-origin beans and espresso drinks expertly crafted by award-winning baristas, the line that appears at 9 a.m. every morning is for a good reason. One note for those who packed a laptop: the Manhattan Beach Public Library right next door on Highland Avenue is a genuinely beautiful place to get something done, and Enclave, a co-working space just a few blocks from downtown, offers drop-in options if you need a proper desk. Productive mornings have been built on worse foundations. If you are a reader, {pages} a bookstore on Manhattan Avenue, is a warm little bastion of happy bookishness. The store

is expertly curated, staffed by kind and avid readers, with a recommendations section that is genuinely helpful. And while you’re in the neighborhood, step into Bo Bridges Gallery on Manhattan Avenue. Bridges has photographed everything from Tom Cruise on Mission: Impossible to the X Games, but what people really want from his work isn’t the celebrities and athletes—it’s the playing fields. The waves without surfers. The mountains without skiers. What Bridges calls “mind surfing” photos—images so vivid and transporting that you feel yourself inside them. The gallery also has cool merchandise if you are looking for gifts or local mementos. A few doors down, Tabula Rasa Essentials has been a downtown anchor since 2000, when owner Maureen McBride—an 18-year fashion industry executive—walked past a vacant storefront, fell in love with the neighborhood, and never looked back. Equal parts modern apothecary, lifestyle boutique, and sensory experience, it is the kind of shop where you will stay longer than you planned. If your sweet tooth is calling, two of the South Bay’s most beloved institutions are within easy reach. Becker’s Bakery and Deli has been a family operation since 1942— Harry Becker’s great granddaughter Kit

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now runs the place. The bakery’s cinnamon, maple and bacon cupcake once made it to the Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars.” The cake decorators here treat buttercream frosting as a sculptural medium, and the results are worth seeing. Only a block from the beach, Manhattan Beach Creamery hand-makes its ice cream in small batches daily, rotating flavors that run from straightahead classics to things like Bananas Foster and Maple Bacon Crunch. The Cream’wich, a scoop between two made-from-scratch cookies, has become a local mainstay. By early-to-mid afternoon, the natural landing place is Simmzy’s—an open-air spot just above the pier with a great burger, a well-curated beer list, and the kind of unpretentious ease that Manhattan Beach does better than almost anywhere. After lunch, make your way to Culture Brewing Co., and you will understand immediately why it has become a downtown MB social hub. Enjoy its open air, local

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artists on the walls, and great craft beer—30 taps, including the popular Mosaic IPA and their Great American Beer Festivalwinning Blonde Ale. When evening arrives, you are in the heart of what has recently evolved into one of the better dining destinations in Los Angeles County. Downtown Manhattan Beach has always had good restaurants; over the last two decades it got great ones. Mike Zislis was there first. A master brewer by the time he graduated from USC, he opened one of California’s first craft breweries in Manhattan Beach in the late 1980s. When the restaurant next door became available, he opened Rock ‘N Fish— drawing inspiration from Commander’s Palace in New Orleans, the big bar culture of Chicago, the art deco warmth of New York— and the town was ready for it. “We were busy the day we opened,” Zislis recalled. A quarter century later it still is, the blue cheese wedge and the Kapalua ribeye as beloved as ever, the legendary Navy Grog rum cocktail still the most requested drink at the bar. The restaurant overlooks the pier. Next door is brewco, which two decades ago was Zislis’s ahead-of-the-curve craft beer spot, but has since evolved to include sophisticated dining. Into that already-strong foundation came the Simms family—third-generation restaurateurs Mike and Chris Simms, grandsons of Arthur J., who opened Simmzy’s in 2009 and Tin Roof Bistro three months later. In 2011 they brought in chef

Plow, with its farm-to-table California comfort food, rounds out a downtown dining scene that now routinely draws people from well outside the South Bay. The flagship of the LeFevre restaurants is MB Post, where the strategy is to order several small plates and share. The bacon cheddar buttermilk biscuits are famous for a good reason: sinfully delicious, oddly comforting. The cocktail program is equally serious. If you find yourself unable to leave, that is normal.

The legendary Navy Grog rum cocktail is still the most requested drink at Rock ‘N Fish’s bar. David LeFevre as a partner, and the three restaurants they built together—MB Post, Fishing With Dynamite, and The Arthur J. steakhouse—elevated the ambitions of the entire downtown. Chef David Slay has since added his own mini-empire: Slay Steak + Fish House, Slay Italian Kitchen, and Fête Bistro, his FrenchMediterranean room, all within a few blocks of each other on Manhattan Avenue. Love & Salt brings modern Italian with a California sensibility to the boulevard, and Hook &

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If the evening calls for something different—a proper martini in a room that feels like it has been there forever— Mangiamo’s is your answer. And then there is the matter of closing out Day One the right way. Almost everything changed in Downtown Manhattan Beach over the last couple of decades. Shellback Tavern abides, as it has for more than 50 years, perched just above the pier. It has become less a local institution and more a bastion of the resistance, a place where you can still find the ramshackle old soul of Manhattan Beach. Owner Bob Beverly quips, “people say that coming into Shellback to get a beer and sit back and look at the pier—it could be the ‘40s, the ‘50s, or the ‘60s, because that view has not changed.” (Another MB merch suggestion: get a Shellback trucker hat). A short walk away, Ercole’s has been the town’s unofficial epicenter since 1927, and features a pool table and perhaps the most locally beloved hamburger (sourced from Manhattan Market, next door). Two burgers for the price of one on Wednesdays. Free Cheetos and pretzels on the bar. Cold beer and strong drinks. Gary Moore took over the place in 1972, and it is now run by his niece, Staci Clark.

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Bakery by the Yard’s Sherry Yard is the former head pastry chef at Spago and a veteran of the Food Network.

And if the night is still young, there is one more stop. The Kettle has been open since 1973—the first 24-hour restaurant in Manhattan Beach and, as the L.A. Conservancy will tell you, a culturally significant historic site. Arthur J. Simms, who had run the commissary at MGM Studios and operated Ben Frank’s coffee shops on the Sunset Strip, took over in 1975 and started what would become one of the most influential restaurant dynasties in the South Bay: Simmzy’s, Tin Roof Bistro, and Lazy Dog Restaurants all trace their lineage back here, to the corner of Highland and Manhattan Beach Boulevard, where a giant kettle still sits on the roof. Three generations of Simms family later, everything is still made from scratch, the muffins are still “locally world famous.” It is open until midnight on weeknights, and around the clock on weekends. NFL Hall of Famer Joe Montana was sitting in a Kettle booth when he got the call to join the 49ers, so the least you can do is order a late-night stack. Get some sleep. Day Two starts early.

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DAY TWO

On your second day we’ll take a sojourn to the outer realms of MB (if a four-squaremile town can have outer realms). We’ll begin in a legendary part of town, once known as El Porto, now better known as North Manhattan Beach. It’s only about ten blocks that run parallel to the Pacific Ocean along Highland Avenue, but this is a richly storied stretch. Back in the 60s, everything north of Rosecrans was still unincorporated, and it was a wild heyday of sorts. Due to its proximity to LAX, El Porto was home to a lot of airline pilots and in the day, “stewardesses.” Due to its superior waves, it was home to a lot of surfers. And due to the combination thereof, it was a party. North MB has changed, but its left coast sense of fun is completely intact, and its surf vibe is immaculate. If you are game, let’s go surfing. Pack Landfair at El Porto Surf Shop handles both lessons and board rentals. He and his instructors will get you into the waves with surprising ease. Don’t worry about looking foolish. Everyone does, until they don’t. North MB is also, perhaps not coincidentally, a great breakfast neighborhood. Sloopy’s Beach Cafe is like a Californian idyll, with wood tables and (on chilly mornings) a fire pit amid a small forest of plants and streaming sunlight, and, most crucially, a healthy menu that includes breakfast burritos built for a post-surf session. But you have choices. Across the street is North End Caffe. The Huevos Divorciados—eggs over easy on sausage, bacon, and grilled corn tortillas, half covered in red salsa, half in green— deserve their own moment of silence, but the entire menu is a chef-edged delight. One more stop before you leave the neighborhood: Bakery by the Yard, opened by Sherry Yard, the former head pastry chef at Spago and a veteran of the Food Network, operates out of a small storefront on Rosecrans and deserves to be far better known than it is. Look her up before you go; it will recalibrate your expectations for what a neighborhood bakery can be.

North Manhattan and El Porto offer a laid-back, surf-driven slice of the city where the pace slows, and the vibe stays effortlessly chill. North MB has dozens of welcoming spots to grab a great meal or a well-crafted cocktail. Head to our end of town, where quality never comes with an attitude, and no one thinks twice if you walk in straight from the beach.

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Then rent a Strand Cruiser at Beachside Bikes and ride south. The Strand is the long, flat bike and pedestrian path that runs the entire length of Manhattan Beach’s coastline: 2.1 miles of oceanfront. A morning ride on it, with the ocean to your right and the procession of beach houses to your left, is one of the simple, free pleasures that makes this town what it is. Manhattan Beach maintains a Public Art Story Map (manhattanbeach.gov) that guides visitors to dozens of sculptures, murals, and mosaics scattered throughout the city. The utility boxes alone are worth a look. Once back on solid ground, head inland to Manhattan Village. This shopping center has transformed itself in recent years from a conventional mall into something genuinely worth a detour: an open outdoor space with water and Adirondack chairs where people congregate and relax and enjoy a cluster of restaurants that has become one of the better dining destinations in the city. Saint and Second anchors the complex with an indoor-outdoor U-shaped bar— half the seats inside, half out. Sushi Roku is another anchor: upscale without being stuffy, creative omakase alongside solid cooked dishes, the kind of place that works equally well for a business dinner or a proper night out. BOA Steakhouse brings big, modern steakhouse energy to a neighborhood that didn’t previously have it. Tin Roof, a California wine country bistro with a Santa Barbara mission-style interior, has been a Village institution for years. Dan Modern Chinese is the sleeper hit of the whole complex: soup dumplings,

elevated noodle dishes, the kind of place you’d drive to from elsewhere once you knew about it. Around the corner, it’s well worth a stop on Rosecrans. If you have not yet heard of Erewhon, you will. The organic grocery and prepared food phenomenon—beloved by influencers, or by anyone who has ever tried the smoothies—opened its Manhattan Beach location to lines that started forming at 4am and snaked around the back of the Trader Joe’s parking lot. It is their busiest location. The $18 smoothie is not a rumor and neither is the crowd. They are there for a reason; this is an experience. As the afternoon softens into evening, the wine country beckons. MB Wine Company is a hidden gem tucked away in the northwest corner of Manhattan Village—a place where you can enjoy flights or bottles, and settle into a room that has both indoor and outdoor seating with occasional live music. Or head down the street, to Barsha Wines and Spirits. Owners Adnen and Lenora Marouani built a destination wine and artisanal spirits shop on Sepulveda, which also features an array of small plates and salads. Or a little further down the way, on Artesia, if you want something to take back to the hotel room, Manhattan Fine Wines is the kind of place where the staff will learn your palate in a single visit and find you something outstanding at any price point. In that same plaza, The Butchery is worth a stop: a small, beautiful market with a meat counter, seafood counter, deli, and a gourmet food section that one local described as “Erewhon, but for people who actually cook.”

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Or if you find yourself back downtown as the sun drops toward the water, Uncorked on Manhattan Avenue is another great wine shop, with a cozy tasting room, a little outdoor patio, warm and knowledgeable staff, and a great selection of wines. You have options for ending your second night. You could return to where your day started, because North MB has one more card to play, and it is a wild one. Pancho’s, the graceful hacienda-style Mexican restaurant at the corner of Highland and Rosecrans, is worth a visit any night of the week. Their traditional Mexican food is the real thing, the margaritas are legendary, and the restaurant itself is a two-story architectural universe, with full-grown trees growing inside. But if your 48 hours happen to include a Monday night, rearrange your schedule. Monday is comedy night, hosted by comedian Danno Carter, and the secret is this: comedians need stage time to stay sharp, so they show up. Ali Wong has been there. People who go on to do Netflix specials and late-night sets show up at Pancho’s on a Monday to try out new material, in a bar adorned with large mounted taxidermic fish, for free. Former Lakers coach Phil Jackson used to come so reliably that comedians started requesting “the Phil Jackson spot.” Day Two ends where every good day in Manhattan Beach ends—at the beach. Specifically, at The Strand House, which Michael Zislis opened in 2011 as the crown jewel of his culinary empire. It has the best view of any restaurant in town, a menu that matches its setting, and the good sense to put the ocean and the pier right in front of you while you eat. Order something you’ll remember. Watch the sun go down. You started at the pier two days ago, and now here you are again, right where you belong. Manhattan Beach will do that to you. 48

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Manhattan Beach, the World Cup, and AYSO: how a small beach city punches far above its weight in the global game BY MARK MCDERMOTT

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n a Satu rday morning in the fall or spring, before the bars open downtown and before the Strand fills with bicycles and joggers, soccer has already taken over Manhattan Beach. The takeover is both ordinary and astonishing. At Marine Avenue Park, Polliwog Park, Manhattan Heights, Mira Costa, and a dozen other fields, children in bright jerseys run in every direction. Parents unfold chairs, carry coffee, look for missing shin guards, and check game schedules on their phones. Referees arrive. Coaches gather balls. Younger siblings chase each other along the edges of fields. The games begin at 8 a.m. and, on lighted fields, can roll until 8 p.m. By the time a typical Region 18 AYSO Saturday is fully underway, as many as 5,000 to 7,000 people may be interacting with youth soccer in a city of roughly 35,000 people. “It’s like running Six Man every weekend,” said Krista Skinner, regional commissioner of AYSO Region 18, referring to the legendarily annual local beach volleyball tournament. That line, half joke and half logistical truth, speaks to something essential about Manhattan Beach. The city is known for the pier, the beach, good schools, expensive homes, volleyball, surfing, restaurants, and a stubbornly intact small-town feel. But it is also, quietly and emphatically, a soccer town. This summer, the rest of the soccer world will arrive next door. The 2026 FIFA World Cup comes to North America in June, and Los Angeles Stadium at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood will host eight matches, including the United States men’s national team opener against Paraguay on June 12. For most of the country, the World Cup is still something seen from a distance, a spectacle on television, a month-long global fever that occasionally breaks through the American sports calendar. For Manhattan Beach, it is happening almost in the neighborhood. And in another sense, it is a kind of homecoming. Manhattan Beach has been part of the American soccer story in a way that seems wildly out of scale for a city of its size. The names alone make the point. Mia Hamm lives

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here. So has Landon Donovan. Alexi Lalas, the red-bearded defender from the 1994 World Cup, the first American to play in Italy’s Serie A, and now a Fox Sports analyst, calls Manhattan Beach home. Rob Stone, the Fox Sports studio host who will help anchor the network’s World Cup coverage, has lived here for more than a decade. Bruce Arena, the most decorated coach in U.S. men’s national team history, has lived here. So has Omar Gonzalez, the MLS Cup-winning defender. Olympic gold medalist and World Cup champion Abby Wambach lives nearby in Hermosa Beach, close enough that her ideal Sunday begins in the waves at El Porto in north Manhattan Beach. Soccer America magazine once described Manhattan Beach as “the epicenter of the American soccer establishment.” Rob Stone has his own take on that designation, and it involves a dog walk on the Greenbelt. “I was on the wood chip trail a couple years ago,” Stone said. “Zlatan Ibrahimović was having a one-on-one training workout while I’m walking my dog. I mean, things like that don’t happen everywhere.” The question is why they happen here. The easy answers are the obvious ones: the weather, the beach, the schools, the airport, the proximity to studios and stadiums and training facilities. But Stone thinks the soccer migration to Manhattan Beach started with the LA Galaxy, whose move to Carson made the South Bay a logical landing place for players, coaches, broadcasters, and executives. “In the beginning, it was a sweet spot for LA Galaxy players and managers,” Stone said. “And it’s always been kind of a home

for a lot of athletes, whether it’s LA Kings or Olympic athletes or volleyball players. So there’s something about the vibe, the weather, facilities, and just the general demeanor of the city that attracts elite athletes and elite professional people. Soccer certainly was one to jump on board the Manhattan Beach train.” “I can’t point to one thing,” he said. “I can’t point to just saying it’s the school systems, or it’s the access to the training facilities, or the access to mental and physical improvement. I just think it’s this complete package of happiness.”

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“A lot of athletes can be themselves in Manhattan Beach without being in the spotlight.” -Rob Stone, Fox Sports Studio Host Then he added what may be the most Manhattan Beach explanation of all. “A lot of athletes can be themselves in Manhattan Beach without being in the spotlight,” Stone said. That may be the city’s unspoken gift to famous people. It’s a community that tends to keep its cool. It is a place where the royalty of American soccer can buy coffee, walk dogs, coach kids, train in public, and be left alone, save for a smile or knowing nod. Stone came for reasons that will sound familiar to many Manhattan Beach parents. He and his wife have four children. He wanted the schools, the beach, the lifestyle, and proximity to his work at Fox. All four of his children played AYSO. His two sons also played in travel programs.

But Stone draws a distinction about what Manhattan Beach is and is not as a soccer town. Local kid Ryan Hartley, who is 18 and spent the last six years in the LA Galaxy Academy, earlier this year was signed by Italian Serie A professional club Parma Calcio 1913. But this doesn’t mean Manhattan Beach has become an established pipeline to elite soccer. The town is not, by itself, a feeder system to the Galaxy, LAFC, college soccer, or the professional ranks. Southern California as a whole is that feeder system. Manhattan Beach is part of it, and an unusually rich part, but its greatest contribution may be less specialized and more foundational. “There is the need to go beyond the Manhattan Beach borders if you really want to succeed at that next level,” Stone said. “But

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it certainly has proven to be a great starting territory for young people, and also just a home for current and ex-professional athletes.” That “starting territory” has a name: AYSO Region 18. The American Youth Soccer Organization was founded in Torrance in 1964, which means the South Bay was present at the creation of one of the country’s most influential soccer institutions. Region 18, serving Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach, was among the first 20 AYSO regions in the nation. It remains one of the largest. Skinner said Region 18 usually ranks second or third nationally by registration. Some years, it has been first. After COVID, registration temporarily dropped roughly 10 percent but then rebounded. What struck Skinner was not the drop but the stability. “For as many people that live in this community, we’re within about one percent in our registration for the past at least 12 years that I’ve been tracking it,” she said. “If you think about everything that has happened to the soccer landscape—clubs coming and going, and other sports, lacrosse, flag football, everything else that has come to compete with the attention span of the kids and the parents—our program and soccer in the community has maintained its footing.” Between fall and spring seasons, Region 18 serves roughly 3,000 children. In the fall, it fields about 300 teams. It operates with 600 to 800 volunteers, including roughly 400 to 500 coaches and 300 to 400 referees, with some overlap. Its board alone has about 40 volunteers. To understand the scale, Skinner offers a comparison. One of the larger local club soccer organizations in the South Bay may have around 50 teams. Region 18 has about six times that. Skinner said AYSO’s success has a lot to do with the cities it relies upon. “I will tip my hat and give a ton of credit to the commitment that the City of Manhattan Beach, and then secondarily Hermosa Beach, have made to supporting a nonprofit, volunteer, 100 percent volunteer-based organization,” she said. “Our access to fields and field space is what allows us to do the job that we do. If we were having to battle for field space and to pay what our competitors in the club scene have to pay, I don’t know that we would be as successful.”

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“That’s one of the things that we do really well, is give your kids the opportunity to make friends.” - Krista Skinner, regional commissioner of AYSO Region 18

In a town where space is among the most precious commodities, access to fields is not a small thing. It is the infrastructure beneath the culture. The other key is volunteerism. Region 18 is not a business. It is a 501(c)(3), built largely on the willingness of parents and longtime community members to give their time. “There are a lot of people that are willing to just write a check,” she said. “But for everybody that’s willing to write a check, there’s another handful of kids that lose the opportunity to play because they lose the field space.” The price ref lects the philosophy. Registration for the youngest players, the U5 division, is $145. “Tell me anything you can do in the South Bay for more than one week for under $150,” Skinner said. The region could charge more. In Manhattan Beach, most families would willingly pay more. But the children whose families would not be able to pay are precisely the reason the cost stays low. “We could absolutely, in this community, raise that to $500 tomorrow, and most of the kids would play,” she said. “But the ones that wouldn’t are the reason why we’re at $145. We want every kid, every family, to have an opportunity to play, regardless of where they come from and regardless of their financial constraints.” AYSO’s founding ideals—open registration, balanced teams, positive coaching, everyone plays—can sound almost quaint in an era when youth sports have become increasingly

professionalized, specialized, and expensive. But in Region 18, those ideals are not nostalgic. They are operational. About 85 percent of Region 18 players come from Manhattan Beach or Hermosa Beach, or attend school in one of the two cities. But unlike Little League, Skinner said, AYSO is open registration. A family can register their child in whichever AYSO region works for them—based on where the parents work, where grandparents live, where a sibling already plays, or simply which region has a program the family prefers. Some come from Los Angeles because they like the program. At the youngest level, Skinner said, the goal is not to manufacture future college players. “We’re not trying to teach four-year-olds how to play soccer,” she said. “We’re trying to teach them how to make friends, and to build a community, and be on a team, and

be supported by their parents. We’re not developing D1 soccer players. We have a couple along the way, but that’s not our main goal.” Soccer here matters beyond the soccer. Region 18 is not simply producing athletes. It is building relationships. Because AYSO redrafts teams each season, children do not play with the same small group year after year. A child who begins in pre-K and stays through middle school may play with dozens of kids from different neighborhoods and elementary schools. By the time those children arrive at Manhattan Beach Middle School or Mira Costa, many already know each other. Their parents know each other. Their family lives have overlapped along the sidelines. “If you have a kid that’s grown up in our program from pre-K through middle school, hopefully, if they’ve played every season with

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SOCCER TOWN us, they’ve been with us for eight to 10 seasons,” Skinner said. “By the time they hit middle school, they have now interacted with dozens of kids across the different elementary schools.” That is how a community is knit together. A Saturday game. A snack. A team photo. A borrowed pair of cleats. A parent volunteering to coach because no one else can. A child meeting a future classmate three years before they share a classroom. “I think one of the biggest challenges for our kids these days is just knowing people and having those interpersonal relationships,” Skinner said. “That’s one of the things that we do really well, is give your kids the opportunity to make friends.” The rise of club soccer has complicated this landscape. Neither Skinner nor AYSO is anti-club. Her own daughter played club soccer for years. A lot of kids love their club teams, find their best friends there, and thrive. But Skinner worries about what happens when sports become a chase—for status, roster spots, scholarships, prestige, or simply parental validation. “I believe that being a multi-sport athlete is really, really important,” she said. “If you can continue to have your child do different activities throughout their entire growth years, I think that is much more important than excelling in one.” She has seen families spend thousands of dollars a year chasing a level of play. She has seen children lose their love of the game. “I see these kids that are driven down this path, literally by their parents,” Skinner said. “It’s sad for me, because they lose their love for the game. Kids that play AYSO, they love to play soccer. It’s fun. They want to hang out with their friends. We have some amazing players, but they’re not killing themselves every week, staying up late to do homework and traveling and being gone.” Her own family story carries the ache of that experience. Skinner’s younger daughter played club soccer for five years, then played her final season at Mira Costa. After that, she stopped playing. “She lost her love of the game,” Skinner said. “When she went away to college, she played her last game at Mira Costa as a senior and hasn’t touched a soccer ball since. And that’s sad.”

But this summer, her daughter is moving back home. She plans to coach in Region 18 through a new partnership with the Women’s Coaching Alliance, a program aimed at putting young women into leadership opportunities as coaches. She also hopes to volunteer with Football for Her, a Gardenabased organization that provides low-cost or no-cost soccer programming for girls in underserved communities. “She’s going to find her love of the sport again,” Skinner said. The Women’s Coaching Alliance partnership is especially meaningful to Skinner because it touches the reason she became regional commissioner in the first place. Skinner grew up playing soccer on the East Coast beginning at age four. There was no AYSO in her community, just Saturday soccer—blue on one side, yellow on the other— and she kept playing through high school. In those years, before women’s soccer had the structure and visibility it has today, there was not much of a path after high school. But she became a youth referee. She became a coach. When her own children reached AYSO age, she thought she would coach for a couple of years and then step aside. Twenty years later, she is still here. Skinner stepped into the Regional Commissioner role eight years ago. At the time, she was one of a handful of female coaches and one of a handful of female referees in a region where the leadership skewed heavily male. Today, the board is roughly half women. “So I actually closed my business and I signed up to become the regional commissioner,” she said. “And I have not been able to get rid of this job in eight years...It is a passion project. I do it because I know what the sport gave me growing up. This sport saved my life back then. I had a coach that changed my life.” What began as coaching four-year-olds became something larger: an attempt to preserve a version of sport that gives children belonging, confidence, friendship, discipline, and joy—without taking childhood away from them. “We have kids that come back to us from club,” Skinner said. “A lot come back in that 14- to 16-year-old age range where they’re like, ‘I just want to play the game that I love with my friends.’ And AYSO lets me do that.”

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That does not mean Region 18 is casual or unserious. Its All-Star teams have been highly successful. Its postseason teams have won at the Western States level. A banner at Marine Avenue Park lists the championships. Skinner puts it this way: winning is not the goal, but it is nice to win. “There is a track to be extraordinarily successful through higher-level play within the AYSO umbrella,” she said. The broader arc, however, is not championships. It is continuity. Region 18 has been doing this for more than 50 years. The American game has grown up around it. That is what Rob Stone sees most clearly as the World Cup returns to the United States. Stone has covered 15 World Cups overall, including seven men’s tournaments. But before he became one of the country’s most recognizable soccer broadcasters, he went to the 1994 World Cup as a fan. He took his now-wife to a match in Orlando while working as a young local sports anchor in Albany, Georgia. “I was the young buck sports anchor who was thrusting World Cup highlights on an unsuspecting southwest Georgia market who had no idea what was coming their way,” Stone said. “I was talking passionately about Bulgaria and what this U.S. national team can do. Here come the Germans and the Brazilians, and poor little southwest Georgia Albany had no idea what was coming their way. But I did my best to educate them.” In 1994, American soccer was kind of like the metric system. Americans weren’t quite sure what to make of it. Major League Soccer had not yet begun play. The U.S. women would not win their iconic 1999 World Cup at the Rose Bowl for another five years. Soccer culture had not yet taken root in the United States. “Back in ’94, if you were a parent and you had to coach your kid, you had to go to the library and check out a soccer book to learn what exactly is going on,” Stone said. That is no longer the country the World Cup will find upon arrival this summer. In 2026, it’s game on. “I could just point my finger and spin around here in Manhattan Beach and point at hundreds of parents who grew up playing the game and could coach on a moment’s

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“...Manhattan Beach is an absolute destination for anybody coming to LA for the World Cup.” - Rob Stone, Fox Sports Studio Host

notice,” Stone said. “So I think the world is going to come to LA and America overall and see a totally changed soccer culture and walk away really impressed.” He called it a “mature soccer society”—a country with more intelligence, passion, and knowledge than it had three decades ago. “Frankly, it’s in more and more Americans’ DNA than it was in ’94,” Stone said. If that is true nationally, it is especially visible in Manhattan Beach. Stone sees the city as a “starter garden” for the sport—a pocket of Southern California where climate, culture, immigration, athleticism, and openness to new sports combined early. “I think that’s one of the perks of being associated with one of the largest and greatest cities in the world,” he said. “You have this cultural melting pot, and you are going to attract intelligent, athletic human beings that are not shy about embracing quote-unquote new sports, which soccer was back in the early ’90s. I think it’s natural that this town, this pocket, was a bit of a starter garden for soccer in this state and in this country.” The World Cup, in other words, will not make Manhattan Beach into a soccer town. It already was one. Skinner affirms this. Every four years, she said, AYSO national leaders talk about the World Cup or Olympics as moments that might boost registration. In Region 18, the effect is more like a brief increase in awareness than a wave of new players. “It’s such an entry-level sport in this community,” she said. “It’s what everybody

thinks about when they’re signing up for one of their first sports.” The youngest children may learn the names of more international stars. They may collect stickers, watch games on television, or understand for the first time that the sport they play on Saturdays is the same game that can fill stadiums and stop nations. But they were probably going to play anyway. “It doesn’t all of a sudden introduce a sport to a community that’s never heard of it,” Skinner said. What it will do is bring the world to the city’s doorstep. Stone said many of those travelers will find their way to Manhattan Beach. “It’s a city that thousands will be flocking to this summer, with the World Cup being played not too far away at SoFi, and the reputation this town has, and proximity to the airport, and obviously the beach,” Stone said. “I think you’re going to see a lot of a lot of flags. You’re going to hear a little bit more volume when that tournament starts on June 11.” “I think Manhattan Beach, and even Hermosa Beach to an extent, are going to be a bit of an epicenter for the World Cup here in LA,” Stone said. “Whether they’re here for their nation and the games that are being played, or whether they’re just coming to LA as part of their American World Cup adventure, I think everybody knows that this is a smart, safe, enjoyable, and easy place to come to.” He imagined visitors walking the Strand, going to the beach, visiting the pier, and watching games in bars and restaurants that will play them nonstop. “I think it’s going to be really obvious come

early June that Manhattan Beach is an absolute destination for anybody coming to LA for the World Cup,” Stone said. For Stone, the return of the tournament to the United States carries personal symmetry. He covered the 1999 Women’s World Cup, which brought him to the Rose Bowl but not to Manhattan Beach. “I was too young and dumb to know to come down here at that point in my life,” he said. “But now I know better.” Now the tournament is coming to him—to a stadium minutes from the city where he raised soccer-playing children, where he walked past Zlatan on the wood chip trail, where the American game’s old and new guard have found a home. And when it is over, when the flags come down and the visitors leave and the world turns its attention elsewhere, Manhattan Beach soccer will return to its workaday form. The fields will be lined. Coaches will send reminders. Referees will be recruited. Children will arrive dragging gear bags, water bottles tucked under their arms, parents trailing behind. A few may someday play in college or beyond. Most will not. But they will have played. They will have known the feeling of belonging to a team. They will have known children from other schools. They will have known the game not as spectacle, but as a Saturday morning habit, a community language, a way of growing up. The World Cup is coming to soccer town. But soccer town was here all along.

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“Manhattan Beach is the healthiest community recorded in the two-decade history of the survey.” - Gallup Well-Being Index

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f you were to scoop up a random person from the middle of the continent and drop them down in the middle of Manhattan Beach, he or she would likely stand in utter amazement at what they beheld. At every corner, they’d see unusually vibrant people—the tousle-haired surfer going for a smoothie, the lean-muscled yogi laughing with her kids, the spry octogenarian out walking the dog. Even the more workaday business folk, though not exactly athletic, are moving with a certain special pep in their steps, exuding a kind of just-happy-to-be-here glow. And if our traveler thought, “These are the healthiest people I’ve ever seen,” it would not be an exaggeration. It would be factually correct. The Gallup Well-Being Index earlier this year found Manhattan Beach to be not only the healthiest community in the United States, but

the healthiest community recorded in the twodecade history of the survey. Manhattan Beach scored 71.6—the highest measurement ever recorded out of more than 1,500 communities surveyed since 2008—against a national average of 60.1. Almost all of the community’s health metrics were shown to be improving against a national backdrop that has been worsening. “All those boats are lifting,” Gallup research director Dan Witters said while presenting the data, “while the tide’s going down.” But what the numbers don’t tell you is that Manhattan Beach didn’t become the healthiest community in America by accident, or simply by being wealthy. “More affluent communities are not more likely to improve over time than other communities,” Witters said. “To improve over time, you have to do something to move the needle.” Something has been happening here for a long time—something that predates the optimization movement, the DNA methylation tests, and the concierge physicians on call. It has its roots in beach culture and a walkable downtown and neighbors who know each other. The wellness revolution has arrived in full force in Manhattan Beach, but it landed in soil that was already prepared. That revolution is visible in the remarkable concentration of cutting-edge health and wellness practitioners who have made the South Bay their home and practice. They are not here by coincidence. They are here because the community they found was ready for them—and because they, in turn, are drawn to a place where what they believe about health is already at least partly embedded in how people live. No one locally has embodied this holistic yet evidence-based approach to health longer than Dr. Chong Kim, who has been practicing anti-aging, functional, and concierge medicine out of his Torrance office since 2007—nearly two decades, and well before any of it had a trendy name. He came to it the way many practitioners do: through disillusionment with what conventional medicine could accomplish. He trained as a hospitalist, an in-patient physician, and spent his days watching people arrive already broken. “True medicine starts in prevention,” he came to believe. “Once you develop an illness, what you’re really doing is patching up a broken

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tire.” He built a different kind of practice—one where he sits with patients long enough to know them—before the industry invented the word “concierge” to describe it. He has lived in Manhattan Beach’s Tree Section since 2010, and his patients, he says, keep him honest. “The South Bay population is just more informed about health in general,” he says with a laugh. “They come to my office with questions that sometimes make me go, ‘Wow, where did you learn that?’ It’s a competition sometimes.” His practice now spans bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, NAD+ infusions, advanced cancer screening, VO2 max testing, and genetic age assessment—a toolkit that would have seemed like science fiction when he started. The conversation around hormones, particularly for perimenopausal women, has been one of the most significant shifts he’s witnessed. For years, a major study scared women away from hormone replacement entirely. The research has since turned decisively. Bioidentical hormones, molecularly identical to the body’s own, are now understood to lower the risk of dementia, osteoporosis, and heart disease. “Women feel fantastic when they start back on their hormones,” Kim says. Men, he

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Sollis Health, a membership-based concierge medicine company operates as a private urgent-and-emergency care provider. adds, often don’t realize how depleted their testosterone levels have become until the numbers come back. “Once you give them some replacement, they feel like they’re in their 30s again. That’s the satisfaction as a physician—patients come in the next visit and say, ‘I feel great. What else can we do?’” Dr. Mike Tarnay spent 25 years in hospital emergency rooms—his first 17 at Torrance Memorial, then eight at Providence Little Company of Mary—watching the American healthcare system buckle under its own weight. Patient volumes at Torrance Memorial nearly doubled after nearby hospitals closed in the early 2000s, turning what had once been a manageable ER into a 12-hour chaos machine. “It’s a young man’s sport,” he says of emergency medicine at that scale. “I was getting into my late 50s and figured I’d better find another way.” He didn’t have to look far. Sollis Health, a membership-based concierge medicine company that operates as a private urgentand-emergency care provider, recruited him to run their new South Bay location at 1000 N.

Sepulveda, five minutes from the 32nd Street house where he has lived since 1998. He still works one shift a month in a conventional ER. The contrast sharpens his gratitude every time. “In the ER, I’m running around, ordering lab tests, making sure people aren’t having emergencies, and I’ve got to run out because there are 40 people in my lobby with an eighthour wait.” At Sollis, he sits down. He reviews labs with members, talks through what they mean, coordinates with specialists who return calls. He calls it “career-extending and careersatisfying.” His patients are his neighbors. What Sollis represents, Tarnay believes, is where all American medicine is heading: a model where people invest something out of pocket for a doctor who knows them. A good primary care physician, he says, is like a good general contractor: “They know you, they know the sub-specialists—the roofer, the plumber, the electrician—and they coordinate everything.” That relationship has been hollowed out by large health systems where doctors chase metrics and patients chase appointments. The

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South Bay, he notes, has been slower to adopt concierge medicine than Beverly Hills or the Westside—a reflection, perhaps, of its more laidback character. But it’s coming. “It just takes a couple of interactions with the system,” he says, “and you realize you need something different.” A few floors up in the same building on Sepulveda, Dr. Vivek Gupta runs a different kind of practice. Board-certified in both internal medicine and obesity medicine, with additional certifications in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Unified Mindfulness, Gupta founded Mindful Wellness in 2020 around a conviction that most medicine was treating the wrong thing. “I start from a fundamentally evolutionary approach,” he says. Human bodies evolved to aggressively seek and store calories against scarcity—and for hundreds of thousands of years, that was the right strategy. Then, roughly 70 years ago, the food environment changed in ways those bodies were never designed to handle. “The two fundamental things that have changed the experience of being a human,” Gupta says, “are our food and our phones.” The result is that seven out of ten people now struggle with weight—not because of moral failure, but because our inherited physiology collided with an unprecedented environment. “We’ve tried the willpower narrative for 50 years,” he says, “and it doesn’t work.” Gupta uses GLP-1 medications, the class that includes Ozempic and Wegovy, not as solutions but as tools. “They turn down the noise,” he says, reducing hunger and craving enough that patients can do the harder, more durable work of behavior change: sleep, stress, nutrition, physical activity. His patient base in the South Bay, he notes, skews toward highfunctioning people in their 40s and 50s whose bodies are changing—people whose lives are busy and demanding, not in spite of their success, but because of it. The community fabric here, he believes, is itself a health asset. “The South Bay is definitely a community,” he says, “as opposed to maybe other parts of LA.” He sees it in his patients. People who move here for the schools stay for the block. Belonging, it turns out, is good medicine. Maricel Rocha came to Manhattan Beach from a different direction entirely—literally and figuratively. Born in Argentina, she earned

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THE CUTTING EDGE a master’s degree in biotechnology from the University of São Paulo and spent years in cancer research in Philadelphia before leaving academia with a conviction that the science she was practicing couldn’t answer the question she cared about. A tumor, she had come to believe, is a consequence of something that happened first at the spiritual, mental, and emotional level. The mouse models couldn’t capture that. She left in search of a better way to help people. Two decades later, she runs a health coaching practice in Manhattan Beach built around epigenetic testing—DNA methylation analysis that measures biological age as distinct from chronological age. The technology became publicly available around 2022 and can measure how fast a person is aging at the cellular level, track the impact of lifestyle changes in real time, and illuminate a path to what Rocha calls age reversal. “We’re not guessing anymore,” she says. That phrase represents twenty years of waiting for the tools to catch up to the question. Underlying her work is a distinction she returns to often: the difference between lifespan and healthspan. Modern medicine has become remarkably good at keeping people alive. What Rocha is chasing is something different—not more years, but more life in the years. “We’ve done a good job in modern society extending our lifespans,” she says. “We’ve not done a good

job expanding our healthspans.” Her goal, for herself and every client, is to match the two. Rocha is 55 years old chronologically. Biologically, she says, she is 45—and the gap is growing. Her pace of aging, measured consistently over four years of testing, runs at roughly 0.75: she ages about nine months for every calendar year. In one striking test cycle, four months of purely mindset work—a program focused on stopping self-sabotage—cut her projected disease risk nearly in half. “When you combine data and you stop the self-sabotage,” she says, “that’s when results show up.” She prescribes connection and joy the way she prescribes nutrition: as a measurable intervention. Schedule time for things that create joy. Make space for people. “Connection and joy,” she says, “are among my seven pillars of age reversal.” But she is also, after all these years, still simply a resident who loves where she lives. “We have the beach, we have the people, we have the weather,” she says. “There’s no excuse for us not to go out, meet people and enjoy what is being served to us.” It is a matter, Rocha says, of savoring the ample but simple pleasures so abundant in Manhattan Beach—such as the sun setting over the pier. “I haven’t seen any other sunset that is more beautiful. It’s in our backyard.” “We live in a very highly educated population

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of professionals,” she says. “It’s not a lack of information. It’s not lack of resources. It’s self-sabotage. It’s mindset work.” Just across the El Segundo border on PCH, Love.Life—co-founded by John Mackey, the visionary behind Whole Foods Market, along with former Whole Foods executives Walter Robb and Betsy Foster—represents the most ambitious expression of the new wellness model yet built in the South Bay. Opened in August 2024 in a 45,000-square-foot space, it offers functional medicine, Eastern medicine, behavioral health, physical therapy, registered dietitians, fitness, recovery therapies, indoor pickleball, and a plants-forward café—all under one roof, all coordinated around a single member’s care plan. The tagline—imagine if your doctor, nutritionist, trainer, therapist, and acupuncturist all teamed up to plan your care—is not marketing language. It’s the literal structure. Meaghan Driscoll, Love.Life’s Director of Sales and Marketing, has lived in Manhattan Beach for 17 years. She came to the job, she says, because it felt like a natural extension of the community she already loved. She’s quick to distinguish what Love.Life is from what people assume it is. “There’s everything we have in this building that someone else is doing somewhere,” she says. “But we’re doing it all under one roof and truly taking the holistic approach.” The difference, she adds, is coordination—a care team that talks to each other about you, rather than specialists operating in separate silos with no shared picture of the whole person. But what Driscoll most wants to talk about is the pickleball. And the WhatsApp group. And the accountability coach who follows

up when members stop showing up. “One of the pillars of longevity is community,” she says, “and that’s the approach we’re taking.” Members who met on the courts are introducing their significant others. People who played Monday are taking class together Wednesday. The social infrastructure—the café open to the public, the events and lectures, the gather room where outside experts come to speak—is not incidental to the wellness mission. It is the wellness mission. “The gym model is pay money and don’t come,” she says. “We want you to come. We want you to want to be here.” Love.Life, she says, is basically a Blue Zone. That observation points toward something larger—the thing that all these practitioners, arriving from different disciplines and different directions, keep independently naming as the variable that underlies everything else. Vivek Gupta gets there through Blue Zones research: the common denominator among the world’s longest-lived people, he emphasizes, is not a specific diet or exercise protocol. It’s community. Maricel Rocha gets there through advancing science and her seven pillars, foremost of which is finding joy in human connection. Mike Tarnay gets there through what makes his work feel deeper and more meaningful now that his patients are his neighbors. “When you study Blue Zones people, the ones who live forever—the thing is, they eat a lot of different things, but their common variable is community,” Gupta said. “We’re social creatures. Humans have been able to conquer the globe not because we’re stronger or necessarily smarter, but because we can communicate together. And we have each other.”

“The whole thing about the Blue Zones,” Kim says, “is that is where all the wellness is—community is a huge part of how we age and how we prevent illness. It’s all about the community that you live in and the support that’s there for you.” National Geographic explorer Dan Buettner has spent his career identifying and studying the world’s Blue Zones—the handful of places on earth, from Sardinia to Okinawa to the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica, where people routinely live past 100 in good health, without trying to. They don’t go to gyms and they don’t diet. His research identified the common threads: natural movement built into daily life, a plant-forward diet, a sense of purpose, and above all, community. In 2010, he launched the first Blue Zones Project in the United States right here in the Beach Cities, in part, because the soil was already fertile. The Strand, the walkable neighborhoods, the culture of physical activity, the unusually intact sense of community—Manhattan Beach had ingredients that most American cities had already lost. What followed, Buettner says, were permanent and semi-permanent changes to the built environment—bike paths, smoke-free policies, walking school buses, restaurants committed to healthier menus— modest interventions, each one, but with a long tail of lasting impact. “The moral of the tale,” he says, “is that incremental change is big change.” His work reinforced what was already here, and almost certainly contributed something to the remarkable Gallup numbers that followed. It has also quietly shaped the thinking of the cutting-edge practitioners now working in and around the community.

Buettner puts it this way: he recently spent a week in Vestland, Scandinavia, one of the regions with the highest healthspans he has ever measured. Every dinner party he attended ended the same way—someone would move to the piano, and everyone would sing together. No one organized it. No one measured the outcome. “As natural as dessert arriving,” he says. That, he suggests, is what genuine well-being looks like. Not a protocol. A life. Buettner likes to invoke W. Clement Stone on the subject: “Be careful the environment you choose, for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose, for you will become like them.” Manhattan Beach is not Vestland. It has Erewhon, a grocery store named after an 1870s satirical novel about a land in which ill-health is a crime, and concierge ERs and epigenetics coaches. But underneath the optimization economy, there is something older and more durable—a Strand that connects people, streets that invite walking, and foremost a community that has somehow held together through decades of change and growth and the arrival of all manner of modernity. That, in the end, may be Manhattan Beach’s most underappreciated asset and its most transferable lesson. You can measure it in Gallup scores and biomarkers and biological age. But you can also just feel it, the moment you arrive.

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The Neighborhoods of

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aris has Montmartre and the Marais. New York has the Village, the Upper East Side, Harlem. What is remarkable about Manhattan Beach—with its four square miles and 35,000 residents—is that the same

thing is true here. People don’t just move to Manhattan Beach. They move to the Sand Section, or the Tree Section, or East Manhattan

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Beach, or the Hill Section. They develop loyalties, preferences, and mild rivalries. They know exactly where they want to be. According to A Walk by the Sea by the city’s unofficial

Sand Section or the Tree Section or another area. Each offers something unique and special.”

historian, Jan Dennis, the divisions go back to before the

Molly Hobin Williams, a fourth-generation California

city was even incorporated in 1912. Manhattan Beach then

Realtor who has lived in Manhattan Beach for over 40

had two sections: the Sand Section near the water, and

years, has spent decades matching buyers to the right

the Soil Section to the east. A large dune, beginning 1,000

neighborhood.

feet from the shoreline near the city’s northern boundary,

“You can find out pretty quickly where they’ll fit in,” she

ran diagonally all the way to present-day Sepulveda

said. “And most people know—they want ocean views and

Boulevard—which is why East Manhattan attracted farmers

the Hill Section, or they want the Sand Section, or they want

rather than beachgoers, a legacy still visible today in its

more space. It comes out pretty fast.”

larger lots and quieter feel.

Jen Caskey, who was born and raised in Manhattan

As the sand was tamed, the farms gave way to homes,

Beach and has sold real estate here for over 30 years, said

and to Mira Costa High School, which until WWII was a

neighborhood distinctness has long been a defining trait of

flower and tree farm operated by a Japanese family. Those

the town.

original Sand and Soil sections blossomed into something

“People have really strong feelings about where they want

richer: neighborhoods with genuine identities, distinct

to be,” she said. “The Sand Section people wouldn’t want it

architectures, and residents who will tell you, at some

any other way. The East Manhattan people want their yards

length, why theirs is best.

and their privacy. We’re pretty lucky here.”

“The little neighborhoods and subsections are really

Steve Napolitano grew up in Manhattan Beach and in

well defined,” said Greg Geilman, a longtime local Realtor.

1992, at age 26, became the youngest city council member

“People know where they want to live, whether it be the

in the city’s history, going on to serve six terms as mayor. He has walked or bicycled every street in the city—first as

“Every section of Manhattan Beach is unique, the way it was built and the way it was developed over time. There is something for everybody.”

a roaming kid on a bike, then on foot during his council campaigns—and knows its neighborhoods and subneighborhoods as well as anyone alive. “Every section of Manhattan Beach is unique, the way it was built and the way it was developed over time,” Napolitano said. “There is something for everybody.” MORE >>>

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T NEIGHBORHOOD ESSENTIALS PARKS & OUTDOORS

Sand Dune Park, Live Oak Park nearby, and tree-lined residential streets ideal for walking and biking

SCHOOLS

Pacific, Grand View, and American Martyrs, all highly sought after by families

DINING & COFFEE

Limited in-neighborhood dining; residents rely on nearby downtown and North End options

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Primarily residential, with easy access to downtown and Sepulveda corridors for daily needs

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The Sidewalk Rebellion

he Tree Section takes its name

upon a time Tree Section residents fought

from its street names—Pine, Elm,

against sidewalks, hoping to preserve the

Oak, Palm—but also from history.

neighborhood’s distinctly woodsier character.

Rosecrans Avenue was once lined

Sidewalks would eventually be welcomed in

on either side by stately rows of eucalyptus,

many parts of the neighborhood, but that

and trees outnumbered homes here for

instinct toward preservation remained part

most of the city’s early life. A century

of its fabric. As a young council member,

later, it remains the most canopied and

Napolitano helped advance what became

architecturally varied of Manhattan Beach’s

the city’s Tree Ordinance, aimed at protecting

neighborhoods, and the one best known for

the neighborhood’s defining canopy and

the kind of family life that draws people to

character. “It was about preserving what

the city in the first place.

makes Manhattan Beach special,” he said.

“It’s really a great neighborhood for

The neighborhood’s streetscape currently

families,” Hobin Williams said. “There are

reflects a balance between past and present.

lots of young families.”

Some blocks remain without sidewalks,

The Tree Section’s community cohesion—

while others have gradually added them. The

the sense that everyone on the block knows

result is a patchwork that has become part of

everyone else, that neighborhood bonds

the neighborhood’s identity: streets that still

form quickly and last—is its beating heart.

feel intimate and tree-lined, but increasingly

“You know everybody,” Hobin Williams

accommodate the rhythms of family life.

said. “It’s this really great sense of community.”

Sidewalks, where they appear, fill with

It’s also a physically beautiful neighborhood,

strollers, dog walkers, and neighbors moving

in no small part due to its trees. Once

Strong neighborhood culture defined by block parties, walkability, and a deep sense of community

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Family-oriented homes on larger lots, typically ranging from about $3M to $6M+, with newer construction and prime locations pushing higher

LOT SIZES (TYPICAL)

Generally larger than the Sand Section, commonly around 4,000–5,400 sq. ft., with variation by sub-neighborhood

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at an unhurried pace.

“You can be in the middle of the Tree

that build the bonds that keep people rooted.

Section and feel you are not in LA County,”

“People stay there sometimes through

Geilman said. The

section

being empty nesters,” Hobin Williams contains

distinct

sub-

observed. “It’s just a great neighborhood—

neighborhoods that residents take seriously.

everybody’s out walking, everybody knows

Down near Sand Dune Park, along 31st, 33rd,

each other.”

and 35th streets, the streets narrow and the

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canopy closes overhead—this is the part of the Tree Section that feels furthest from Los Angeles. The area around Pacific school has its own character, more open and slightly hillier. “There are people that only want to be down by Sand Dune,” Caskey said, “and then there are people that only want to be by Pacific Elementary. Buyers have really strong opinions.” The Grand View district, named for its elementary school, draws families who want to be north of Manhattan Beach Boulevard with easy access to the beach and downtown. And then there is Martyrs Hill—the area around 15th, 17th, and 18th streets near American Martyrs Catholic church and school—which has commanded Hill Section pricing in recent years, with larger lots and, in some cases, ocean views. “Those are going for a premium right now,” Caskey said. “Highly desirable for the walkability, potential ocean views, and proximity to town and the beach.” The Martyrs neighborhood draws its own distinct constituency: families whose children attend the school, who want to be within walking distance of it, and who find in the surrounding streets an older, more established version of the Manhattan Beach community feel. Tree Section families tend to stay. There are streets known for their Fourth of July parties, their block parties, their Halloween traditions—recurring community rituals

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EAST MANHATTAN BEACH:

Into the Wilds

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NEIGHBORHOOD ESSENTIALS PARKS & OUTDOORS

Polliwog Park, the city’s largest park, along with sports fields and community spaces

SCHOOLS

Pennekamp and Meadows Elementary, Manhattan Beach Middle School, and Mira Costa High School

DINING & COFFEE

More limited and car-oriented, with options along Sepulveda and Manhattan Beach Boulevard

SHOPPING & SERVICES

Easy access to larger retail centers, grocery stores, and everyday services

WELLNESS & LIFESTYLE

apolitano remembers the running

of the Hollywood sign.” From their porch,

joke from his childhood: There’s

he said, you could see it—a little dot, but

no life east of Sepulveda. The

unmistakably there.

real estate market long ago put

Hageman remembers the sense of

that notion to rest. New construction east

discovery he felt dropping down such little-

of Sepulveda now trades above $6 million,

known streets such as Terraza Place— a

but East Manhattan Beach still retains

short, windy street that feels like its very own

something of its outlier character. Bigger

place, a road further apart from any other

lots, more space between houses, a quieter

roads than any other in Manhattan Beach

pace, and views that look not toward the

that descends into a forest-like idyll.

ocean but north toward Los Angeles and east toward the San Gabriel Mountains. ocean, which is great if you can get it,”

HOUSING SNAPSHOT

spectacular areas on top of the crest just

LOT SIZES (TYPICAL)

Among the largest in the city, commonly around 6,000–7,500 sq. ft., with some significantly larger estate-style properties

here,” Hageman said.

“Everyone focuses on the view of the

Defined by larger lots, quieter streets, and a more spacious, suburban feel within city limits Larger properties with more space, generally ranging from around $2.5M to $6M+, with newer construction and larger estates exceeding that

“People don’t really know about this back

Napolitano said. “But there are some east of Sepulveda where you’ve got some amazing city views—just city lights.” Tim Hageman, who served 32 years as a Manhattan Beach police officer, bought a house in East Manhattan in 1998 and raised his family there, remembers the selling point on the flyer when they bought: “View

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The area is large—extending south of Manhattan Beach Boulevard and east of Sepulveda all the way to Aviation—and contains distinct sub-neighborhoods. The Mira Costa neighborhood, centered on the high school whose campus was, until World War II, a flower and tree farm, anchors the southern reach. The Poets Section, where streets named for Longfellow, Keats, Tennyson, and Shelley give way to everlarger lots, contains some of the most PHOTO BY MBXFOUNDATION.ORG

secluded properties in the city: homes set back from traffic, surrounded by space, with a privacy that the Sand Section can never quite offer. The average lot size in East Manhattan runs to 7,500 square feet—nearly three times a typical Sand Section lot. MORE >>>

“The Mira Costa neighborhood, centered on the high school whose campus was, until World War II, a flower and tree farm, anchors the southern reach.”

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“You’re getting a really nice big property,”

community life. Its summer Concerts in

the Westside of Los Angeles—drawn by

Caskey said. “A big house with a huge yard.”

the Park series—free outdoor performances

the schools and the community as much

“There’s some really secluded, private

drawing families from across the city—is the

as the real estate itself. “Instead of sending

homes back there—off Tennyson and

kind of recurring ritual that helps knit the

their kids to private school, they can come

in those streets—that are just amazing,”

neighborhood fabric together, with picnic

down to Manhattan Beach,” Hobin Williams

Hobin Williams said. “You don’t have a lot

blankets and dancing children creating a

said. “They get more bang for their buck.”

of traffic. You’ve got privacy. Some of those

perfect summer evening vibe.

Pennekamp and Meadows Elementary serve

homes are extraordinary.”

The East Manhattan buyer tends to

the area’s families, and both exemplify the

Polliwog Park, the largest park in Man-

arrive from outside the city—often from

school district’s reputation for educational

hattan Beach, anchors the neighborhood’s

Redondo or Hermosa, or relocating from

excellence that draws relocating families from across the region.

“Polliwog Park, the largest park in Manhattan Beach, anchors the neighborhood’s community life.” POLLIWOG PARK

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What those newcomers quickly discover is that East Manhattan has its own community identity—not the walk street intimacy of the Sand Section or the block-party culture of the Tree Section, but something that grows from space and quiet and the unexpected pleasure of a neighborhood that still feels, in places, like a discovery. People who know Manhattan Beach have always known about East of Sepulveda, Napolitano says. The rest of the world is catching up. “The way it was developed over there was with bigger lots,” he said, “and now you’ve got a lot of development and a lot of revitalization. Every section of Manhattan Beach is unique. And that just lends itself to the character of the city.”

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THE HILL SECTION

J NEIGHBORHOOD ESSENTIALS PARKS & OUTDOORS

Veteran Parkway greenbelt, with proximity to beaches and Polliwog Park

SCHOOLS

Meadows, Pacific, and American Martyrs, with Manhattan Beach Middle School a short distance away, and access to Mira Costa

DINING & COFFEE

Short drive or walk to downtown and North End dining corridors

Rooms with a View

en Caskey grew up in the Hill Section.

water, too much of a climb—turns out to

As a kid, she spent a fair amount

be exactly what a certain kind of buyer is

of time wanting to be somewhere

looking for. You can see the ocean from the

else—specifically down on the flat

Hill Section. You just can’t be seen from it.

walkstreets of the Sand Section, where her

The section—bordered by Sepulveda to

friends had the run of the lanes and the

the east, Ardmore to the west, Manhattan

beach was a short walk away. She eventually

Beach Boulevard to the north, and Hermosa

got there; she lives in the Sand Section now.

Beach to the south—features some of the

But after three decades of selling real estate

biggest lots and grandest homes in the city,

in Manhattan Beach, she understands the

with architecture that spans the full range

Hill Section’s appeal as well as anyone.

of the city’s development history: spare

“You get the view and you get privacy,”

mid-century modern holdovers, sprawling

she said. “And I think that privacy is really

Spanish Colonial, and a newer generation

appealing—a lot of professional athletes

of custom homes by local architects who

are looking for something more private,

have raised the design standard to match the

and it’s much more private than the Sand

neighborhood’s ambitions.

Section.” The elevated terrain that once kept

What sets the Hill Section apart, above

prospective buyers away—too far from the

all, is the combination of size, privacy, and

SHOPPING & SERVICES

Convenient access to both downtown Manhattan Beach and Sepulveda Boulevard retail

WELLNESS & LIFESTYLE

Known for larger homes, privacy, and panoramic ocean or city views, with a quieter residential atmosphere

HOUSING SNAPSHOT

Larger homes on expansive lots, generally starting around $3M–$4M and commonly ranging from $5M to $10M+, with premier view properties exceeding that

LOT SIZES (TYPICAL)

Larger and more varied, often ranging from about 5,000 to 7,500+ sq. ft., with some significantly larger parcels

“You get the view and you get privacy...”

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views. The section divides naturally along an east-west axis: the western side commands ocean panoramas, while the eastern side looks out over a sweep of city lights toward Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Mountains. “The lots are larger than most of the town,” Caskey said, “making it really desirable for people that want a view and a yard.” First Street, on the western edge, is among the most coveted addresses in the city: wide, gracious, with some of the largest lots and most architecturally significant homes in the section, where the ocean views are unobstructed and the sense of arrival is immediate. “You can walk to town, or golf cart,” Hobin Williams noted. For buyers who want scale and privacy but still want to walk to dinner,

purchased the Hill Section home of tennis

guy. Everywhere I played, I never got to

the sweet spot runs along Fifth through

champion Maria Sharapova for $25 million

experience the ocean, so now it’s great.” He is

Ninth streets on the western side. “People

last year, shortly after signing a $165 million

not the first Laker to plant roots here. Detroit

really love that walkability,” Caskey said.

extension with the team. “The ocean is my

Lions quarterback Jared Goff recently

The Hill Section’s athletic pedigree is

favorite thing and the beach,” Dončić told

assembled an oceanview property across

part of its story. Lakers star Luka Dončić

reporters at training camp. “I’m a big water

two lots in the Hill Section where Shaquille O’Neal once lived during his early Lakers tenure. Its most recent owner before Goff, Modern Family executive producer Danny Zuker, referred to it affectionately as “the Shaq House.” Lots alone have traded above $11 million in recent years, with multiple competing offers. For families whose needs run large, the Hill Section’s scale is simply irreplaceable. “I’m moving a family right now—they have an extended family that when they all get together there’s like 17 people,” Hobin Williams said. “They’re moving to the Hill Section to a bigger home on a bigger lot.”

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Walkable access to downtown boutiques, retail, and everyday services

WELLNESS & LIFESTYLE

Highly walkable, beach-centered living with strong community interaction, especially along walkstreets

HOUSING SNAPSHOT

Among the most expensive coastal real estate in Los Angeles County, with homes typically starting in the low-$3M range and frequently ranging from $4M to $10M+, with walkstreet and Strand properties reaching significantly higher

LOT SIZES (TYPICAL)

Smaller coastal lots, typically around 2,700 sq. ft. (roughly 30 x 90 feet), with some variation

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“People love the Sand Section for the walkability to both town and the beach. You compromise on your lot size, but you’re walking distance to everything.” in the lane, Halloween nights that draw

The northern end of the Sand Section

young man. Ours is the Gaslight District.’”

families from across town—it is, as Caskey

has its own character too—walk streets

A handful of narrow streets along Marine

put it, “very, very special.” New construction

that pitch toward the ocean and deliver

Avenue, lit by natural gas lamps, the Gaslight

on those streets has surged past $9 million,

views that the flatter south end can’t match.

District sits close to Live Oak Park and

and the architecture has evolved to match

Between them lies the Gaslight District—

draws families whose children play baseball

the lifestyle. “People love the indoor-

and Jan Dennis will correct you if you dare

and lacrosse on its fields.

outdoor living,” Caskey said, and the newest

call it the Gaslamp District. “She’s correct,”

“People who live in the Gaslight area really

generation of walkstreet homes is built to

Geilman said. “Anyone who calls it the

love it,” said Hobin Williams. “You have

prove it.

Gaslamp District— ‘No, that’s in San Diego,

charming gas lamp walkstreets, you’re still walking distance to the beach, and you’re right by the park.” Then there is the Strand itself—a category apart. Properties fronting the beachside path carry a premium matched by almost nothing else in Los Angeles County, and many Strand homes are second or third properties, acquired by buyers already rooted elsewhere in the city who simply want their piece of the water. “There’s still

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a demand for being on the Strand,” Hobin

Manhattan Beach Boulevard; if they want

children, they found themselves absorbed

Williams said. “It’s a lot of high-end, mostly

Robinson, because it’s a smaller school,

almost immediately.

cash buyers.”

they want to be south of the pier.”

Schools also shape where families land

“The community embraced them so

The sense of investment in those

much,” Caskey said. “One of my clients just

schools—and in the community around

went to Japan with seven other families

“People choose areas based upon

them—is part of what makes Manhattan

they’d just met through their elementary

schools,” Hobin Williams said. “If they

Beach what it is. When families displaced by

school. So many of them have said they’ve

want Grand View, they focus north of

the Palisades fires arrived and enrolled their

never felt so welcome anywhere.”

within the Sand Section.

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NORTH MANHATTAN BEACH

N NEIGHBORHOOD ESSENTIALS PARKS & OUTDOORS

Sand Dune Park, El Porto beach access, the Strand and bike path.

SCHOOLS

Adjacent to Grand View Elementary, with proximity to MBMS and Mira Costa

DINING & COFFEE

A vibrant local strip along Highland and Rosecrans includes longtime favorites and newer neighborhood spots.

SHOPPING & SERVICES

Convenient access to North End retail and quick routes out of town via Vista del Mar, Rosecrans and Sepulveda.

WELLNESS & LIFESTYLE

A mix of independent yoga studios, Pilates spaces, and small training gyms anchor the North End’s wellness scene, giving the neighborhood a more local, boutique fitness feel than the rest of the city.

HOUSING SNAPSHOT

A mix of older cottages and newer construction, generally ranging from roughly $3M to $7M+, with premium properties near the beach or with views exceeding that.

California Dreamin’

orth Manhattan Beach, also known as El Porto by some longstanding locals, doesn’t have a clearly marked beginning but its northern boundary is where Highland Avenue becomes Vista Del Mar. Technically, it’s also part of the Sand Section—in fact, Sand Dune Park, the last remaining fully intact sand dune, borders North MB and the Tree Section. But North MB is very much its own neighborhood. Caskey draws the line around Marine Avenue and 36th Street, where the walk streets—pitched rather than flat, but with views that reward the incline—begin in earnest. The neighborhood also features several cul-de-sacs, tucked off the main grid, that have a quiet, almost hidden quality. “The North End has developed so well,” she said. “There’s great shopping, great restaurants, and some charming cul-de-sacs that people love.” The northernmost part of North MB was unincorporated until 1981 and had a Wild West kind of feel, surfer-bohemian style, resulting in a California Dreamin’ heyday back in the ‘60s and early ‘70s. That era is long gone but the sense of celebration remains, reinvented as a different kind of golden California dream. “It doesn’t have that bohemian feel anymore,” Hobin Williams said. “With the new construction

LOT SIZES (TYPICAL)

Similar to the Sand Section near the beach (around 2,500–3,000 sq. ft.), with some slightly larger or irregular lots inland.

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that’s gone on and the prices that have gone up, those days are over.” What remains is something different but no less appealing: the best surf break in Manhattan Beach, a few blocks along Highland that feature some great little restaurants, yoga and fitness studios, a few shops, and a neighborhood vibe built around raising families—the parties these days are more likely to be neighborhood block parties featuring bounce houses and BBQs, or community gatherings such as the neighborhood’s signature event, the North MB Holiday Stroll. Nina Tarnay, a council member and 32nd Street resident who has raised her family here, describes it as a small town within a small town. “Grand View Elementary is such a hub for young families—it’s where you bond with your neighbors and your kids bond with their friends,” she said. “We know all of our neighbors. There is a lot of walkability. People still walk, and especially if you have a dog, you’re basically out and about all the time, meeting and seeing everyone.” The neighborhood’s smaller, locally-owned businesses help preserve that insulated quality even during peak beach season. “Even in the peak times, we are still pretty insulated,” Tarnay said. “If I want the hustle and bustle, I can bike or walk to downtown. But if I don’t want that, and I just kind of want to have an easy stroll down

to dinner, I can do that and be back home without getting into a car.” The neighborhood has also developed a sense of stability—people putting down roots and staying—which is something Tarnay sees as one of North MB’s defining traits. “We don‘t have a ton of turnover, because it is such a neighborhood,” she said. “People

end up raising their kids there, and you really see generations of residents…you get to see each other’s kids grow up.” The neighborhood is so idyllic it even features its own little patch of woods in Sand Dune Park. “Part of my workout is walking the stairs at Sand Dune Park. It transports you,” Tarnay said. “How lucky are we to have a small little

woods in the middle of our town?” The north end also has a practical advantage the rest of Manhattan Beach can’t quite match—it’s a quick drive to LAX and an easy launching point for commuters heading north. “It’s easy out in the morning,” Hobin Williams noted. “Quick access to get out of town.” MORE ON PG 62 >>>

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EDUCATION IN MANHAT TAN BEACH On a Tuesday morning in October, the sidewalks around Grand View Elementary fill with families on foot—kids in backpacks, parents with coffee, dogs on leashes. A few bikes lock up near the entrance. No one is in a particular hurry. It’s a school morning in Manhattan Beach, which means it also looks a little like a neighborhood party.

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ennifer Cram and her family moved to Manhattan Beach from the Midwest about twenty years ago. “We came here for the beach,” she said, “and we stayed for the schools.” She has since had children at every level of the Manhattan Beach Unified School District—elementary, middle, and high school—and has spent those years volunteering in classrooms, serving as a PTA president at Grand View, and now serving on the board of the Manhattan Beach Education Foundation. She is not unusual. In Manhattan Beach, that level of engagement is closer to the norm. “We all have the same goal,” Cram said. “We all moved here for the same reasons, wanting to be here for our kids. There’s no one here who’s not here for the same reason —and together we’re building the same structure for our kids.” What she’s describing is more than a school system. It’s a civic undertaking. Amy Howorth made a similar calculation when she moved here in 1997, arriving from Northern California with two small children. Her realtor had first taken her to Pacific Palisades, and she’d cried—no sidewalks to walk on, no feeling of community. The following weekend she flew back down and took a walk to the beach in Manhattan Beach. “I felt at home instantly,” she said. She was elected to the MBUSD school board six years later and now serves on the Manhattan Beach City Council. “I moved here because of the school district,” Howorth said. “I moved here because I wanted to live in a town with one high school, because that fosters a real sense of community. I wanted my kids to play on the sports teams with the kids they’d be going to school with. And the people who keep moving here—they could live in Hermosa Beach or, you know, fabulous other places. And yes, the beach is a draw, but it’s the schools that keep people coming here.” The note that Howorth sounds—that this is not a recent development—matters. The schools have been the central magnet for nearly thirty years, and probably longer. What has changed is the intensity of the investment, not the fact of it.

A DISTRICT IN RARE COMPANY The numbers are striking on their own. The Manhattan Beach Unified School District serves approximately 6,500 students across eight campuses—Manhattan Beach Preschool, five elementary schools, Manhattan Beach Middle School, and Mira Costa High School. On the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, the state’s primary standardized measure, MBUSD ranks fifth in English Language Arts and sixth in math among all unified school districts in California. There are roughly 1,000 such districts in the state. What makes those rankings more striking still is context. Every district ranked above MBUSD is considerably smaller. As Jonathan Erickson, the district’s Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, put it when presenting the data to the school board last fall: “It is really amazing that a district our size is still competing with them. We’re knocking on the door of some of these other districts that have been at the top for a very long time.” The trajectory matters as much as the ranking. Scores have climbed steadily back to and beyond pre-pandemic levels, with particular momentum at Mira Costa High School, where more than 81 percent of eleventh graders met or exceeded English Language Arts standards—a category that typically declines at the high school level statewide. Math scores rose nearly 8 percent in a single year. Science scores jumped more than 13 percent. The AP story is equally telling. Last year, 1,357 Mira Costa students were enrolled in Advanced Placement courses, up from 1,107 four years earlier. Of those who took AP exams, 90 percent scored a 3 or above— the threshold for potential college credit—an increase of 13 percent over four years. In one particularly striking example, more than 200 students took the AP Precalculus exam after completing the district’s Honors Precalculus course, which had been designed to meet AP rigor without the AP label. Ninety-eight percent passed. The district achieves all of this while placing deliberate limits on academic

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pressure. MBUSD caps student enrollment in AP courses at four—a policy rooted in the board’s sustained attention to student wellbeing. Jen Dohner, vice president of the MBUSD Board of Trustees and the parent of two Mira Costa graduates, sees the cap as reflecting something the district has learned over years of watching what actually works for kids. “Students perform so much better academically when they are also engaged by a passion,” Dohner said. “That passion track is what keeps them going, keeps them attending, keeps them dedicated. Your passion might be drama, or it might be a sport, or something else entirely. But whatever it is, you need to stay current with all of your academics to stay in pursuit of your passion.” The message in that approach is worth pausing on: this is a district that could push harder on the metrics and has chosen not to.

THE SIZE THAT WORKS One reason MBUSD can sustain both achievement and balance is the district’s size. It is small—roughly one one-hundredth the size of Los Angeles Unified, as Dohner notes—but it is also large enough to have achieved critical mass in the diversity of programs it can offer. “We’re small,” Dohner said. “Everybody knows everybody, multiple ways over— you’re in my this group and my that group. We’re just very tight-knit.”

The single-high-school model matters here. Manhattan Beach is large enough to support a comprehensive high school with serious depth in academics, athletics, and the arts, but small enough that the community converges around that one school. High school students don’t scatter across rival campuses; they sit in the same classrooms, play on the same teams, and perform in the same productions. When they come back— as graduates, as teachers, as parents enrolling their own children—they come back to a place they actually remember. That scale translates into programs that would be remarkable in a district ten times larger. Mira Costa was named a California Exemplary Arts Award school this year by the California Department of Education. Its music department has Grammy recognition. Its theater program is among the premier community programs for theater education in the nation. Its Model United Nations program is the most decorated program of its kind in the United States. Roughly 63 percent of Mira Costa students play a sport, and its teams regularly win league titles and reach the CIF playoffs; the boys’ volleyball has been ranked number one nationally. “You don’t get to the award-winning level at the high school without these kids having done the work all the way along,” Dohner said. “You have Makerspace in elementary school, then science lab, then STEAM Wheel at the middle school, and then these technology, biotechnology, and engineering programs at the high school. The pathways are fully articulated.”

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The effect, Dohner said, is that almost every student finds something. “You have kids who are in Model United Nations and on cross-country and in jazz band— they’re in multiple of these award-winning programs, which is just wild.” It’s not, of course, simply a matter of great programs. Whether it’s a first grader giving a speech on environmental

stewardship at a city tree-planting ceremony, a middle school scholar quiz team answering trivia questions that leave adult volunteers lost, a volleyball player jumping out of the gym or a high school jazz ensemble performing at an exquisitely beautiful level— visit any campus, and the chief amazement that you encounter will be the kids themselves. MBUSD students

Outgoing superintendent John Bowes, who is retiring this year, spent four decades in education before coming to Manhattan Beach—as a teacher, principal, and administrator in four California districts. He has been in thousands of classrooms. When he stood before the district’s assembled Teachers of the Year at a school board meeting last spring, what he said carried some weight. “I’ve had the good fortune to work for four really great districts,” Bowes said. “I’ve seen a lot of great teachers. But I can honestly say without hesitation that the best teaching I have seen in 35 years has been over the last four years here in Manhattan Beach Unified.” Statistics describe outcomes. They don’t describe what happens in Susan Holton’s fourth-grade classroom at Grand View Elementary, where a bearded dragon

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EDUCATION IN MANHATTAN BEACH named Spike lives under a heat lamp on the science lab shelf and students run experiments with UV-reactive beads. They don’t describe Megan Montz at Robinson Elementary, whose second graders greeted her recognition as Teacher of the Year with a bouquet of flowers nearly as big as the child carrying it. They don’t describe the Meadows special education teacher who arrives in sequins and a magician’s cape because, as a colleague put it, she’ll do whatever it takes to get kids’ attention and keep it. Or the Pennekamp third-grade teacher whose own second-grade teacher—the woman who inspired her to enter the profession— showed up unannounced at the school board meeting where she was honored, decades later, to watch her former student receive recognition as Teacher of the Year. No data points can quite measure the real magic that occurs in classrooms across the district. The district’s Teacher of the Year for 202425, Mira Costa’s Maddie Hutchinson, teaches English and drama in the same classroom where she once sat as a sophomore. She graduated from Mira Costa, left for San Francisco State, spent a few years figuring out her direction, and eventually asked herself a question a close friend posed: what kind of legacy do you want to leave? The answer led her back to Manhattan Beach. “I remembered the adults who saw and validated me during my own adolescence,” Hutchinson said, “and I thought, ‘Yeah, that meant a lot to me. I could do that for others.’” Now she works alongside the teachers who inspired her to enter the profession in the first place—Jonathan Westerberg, who taught her English and drama as a sophomore and junior; Shannon Vaughan, her freshman English teacher; Hien Nguyen, her AVID teacher; Jim Amberg, who taught her first drama classes at Pacific Elementary and later at the middle school. “I never planned on returning to the South Bay, let alone teaching at my alma mater,” Hutchinson said. “I am so thankful that the journey turned out that way.” She now teaches sophomore English in the same room where she took sophomore English herself.

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“...this is a community dedicated to the success of our students and our schools...” - Kim Linz, incoming superintendent

She is not an anomaly. MBUSD alumni returning to teach in the district that shaped them is a recurring pattern—a reflection of what happens when a school system earns genuine loyalty from the students who passed through it.

A COMMUNITY THAT INVESTS For more than four decades, the Manhattan Beach Education Foundation has been the community’s primary nonprofit partner in public education. Founded in 1983, MBEF has steadily increased its contributions as needs have grown, this year contributing a record $7.6 million in grants across the district—music, STEAM, library services, counseling, and the teaching positions that keep class sizes manageable. But the financial numbers only tell part of the story. What MBEF really represents, Cram said, is the reason Manhattan Beach schools feel different from schools elsewhere—the reason a public school system can deliver what looks and feels like a private school experience. “You get a private school education on a public school budget,” Cram said. “The science labs, the arts, the music, the Makerspaces—those are the extras that the state can’t provide. It’s been such an amazing benefit of partnership between MBUSD and MBEF that Manhattan Beach benefits from.” Howorth, who has watched MBEF’s role evolve from her positions as a parent, a school board member, and now a council member, says the Foundation’s significance extends well beyond what it raises.

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“The Ed Foundation does more than raise money,” Howorth said. “They raise awareness of what it takes to have what we have. And so you have this culture of parents who say, ‘Okay, I’ll run a bond campaign. Okay, I’ll do this. Okay, I’ll run for school board.’ It’s a culture of engagement. It’s very intentional. It’s not by accident.” Hilary Mahan, MBEF’s Executive Director, said that Manhattan Beach is a community that has made a collective decision. “Our teachers, our parents, our students, our leadership—we’re all here because we’re committed to education and to the success of our students,” Mahan said. “I believe this community is unique because we’re all invested in that future together. We have the background, we have the education, we have the heart, the small-town quality where we walk to school with our neighbors and we see the success of our students as they graduate and move on—and come back. We’ve created this culture of commitment and investment, and I don’t see that going anywhere.” The MBEF Endowment, which began with a $10,000 donation in 1986, has grown to $25 million—a sustained, compounding expression of community commitment to its schools. What the financial milestones don’t fully capture is the way the schools function as civic common ground. As Howorth put it: “You don’t have to be a parent to go to the Mira Costa drama productions. You don’t have to be a parent to think that Mira Costa

is your kind of place too.” The schools belong to everyone in the sense that the parks and the pier belong to everyone—as features of Manhattan Beach’s shared identity. Mahan said that MBEF is about more than the sum of its parts. “The Manhattan Beach Education Foundation is not just a single entity,” she said. “It represents our entire community of support, and we are simply a vehicle, albeit a mighty vehicle—a vehicle for our community members, parents, neighbors, residents in our community, to really support our public school system.”

Cram said. “We are building stronger foundations together.” What families experience upon arriving locally is the sense that their children’s success is a matter of community concern, not just family concern. Parents are present in classrooms, not just at drop-off. “You come and you meet these people who have kindergarteners and first graders,” Cram said. “And it really makes you think, ‘I’m so happy that you’re here and that you’re willing to put in the time and the work and the effort.’ The volunteering that goes on here— that’s what’s fun about being a part of a public school system, you do get to be in the classroom, and get to be a part of the collective environment, to be in the library, to be a part of the art room and the Makerspace classroom and the science room. You get to see it with your own eyes, and see your kids discover and learn and create. And that’s why we have such a masterpiece of a public school system here.” Generations of Manhattan Beach residents have moved through the same campuses, creating a continuity of experience that gives the district something most school systems never achieve: a proven

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Ask anyone in Manhattan Beach real estate what drives relocation decisions and the answer is almost uniformly the same, every time: the schools. MBUSD’s reputation functions as a kind of magnetic north for families weighing options across the South Bay and well beyond it—some trading private school tuition for MBUSD’s public campuses, others who are simply drawn to a community so strikingly unified in its collective goal to educate its children. “We all wanted to be here for our kids,”

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track record long enough to span entire family histories. Incoming superintendent Kim Linz, who begins her tenure on July 1, knows that continuity firsthand—she spent ten years working in the district as a school principal before leaving, and like so many before her, she chose to come back. “I know firsthand that this is a community dedicated to the success of our students and our schools, who believes in the power of education, and who shows up for our students in tremendous, remarkable ways,” Linz said when she was introduced as MBUSD’s next superintendent. “You know, great schools and great districts don’t happen by accident. They happen because of great leadership, they happen because of great partnership, and they happen because we have a shared commitment that our students deserve the very best. And that’s why I wanted to come back here.” Dohner described the commitment of community members to the education of its children in a succinct way that could serve as a summary of everything the data and the quotes and the anecdotes are trying to say. “They show up,” she said, “and they turn out.”

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Manhattan Beach PA R KS A ND CULTUR A L SPACES

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Here is your chance to learn all about parks in Manhattan Beach. Visit: www.mbconfidential.com/ manhattan-beach-parks.php or scan the QR code above for more information on the list below.

East Manhattan Beach neighborhood minipark with two picnic tables and barbecues, large grassy area plus play equipment for small children. Public Playing Fields and Athletic Facilities

POLLI WOG PA R K

Fans of this increasingly popular sport can play on pickleball courts at Manhattan Heights Park or the newest courts at the middle school.

18-acre Polliwog Park is the largest in the South Bay. Features a large pond, an amphitheater, gazebos, playgrounds and more.

V E TER A NS PA R K WAY/ GR EENBELT The greenbelt, or woodchip path, is the longest park in town, stretching across the entire Western half of Manhattan Beach, along Valley Drive and Ardmore Ave.

BRUCE’S BE ACH PA R K This unique park is a grassy hillside with big ocean views -- and some history.

TOT LOT A popular little-kids playground at Live Oak Park. Sand-based playground features a train, a small slide, swings, and other equipment suitable for very young children.

M A R INE AV ENUE PA R K This park is over 7.5 acres, with a full-size baseball field, turf soccer field, outdoor basketball courts, picnic tables, children’s play areas and more.

M A NH AT TA N HEIGH T S PA R K A four-acre park with lighted athletic field, tennis courts, basketball courts, pickleball courts and a children’s play area. Also home to the Manhattan Heights Community Center.

L A RSSON STR EE T PA R K E T TE A mini-park in the Hill Section at 2nd Street with swings, playground equipment, a basketball backboard and rim, and a picnic table.

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BEGG POOL The city’s 1940s-era pool offers recreational swimming, lap swimming, instruction, a youth swim team and adult swim club. Private parties are also an option.

M A NH AT TA N BE ACH TENNIS COUR T S The city has three public tennis court areas, both east and west of Sepulveda Blvd. There are also private tennis facilities at Manhattan Country Club.

M A R INE AV ENUE PA R K SK ATE SPOT The Skate Spot is a 6,000-square-foot concrete area for skateboarding, built of state-of-theart materials. Transition elements line the perimeter, with the center section featuring stairs, rails and ledges.

CULTUR A L SPACES PUBLIC ART storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ c8f5502ad2544eec9193f2f81d50042c Manhattan Beach is full of art. Scan the QR code or visit the site above for an interactive map with details on where to go and what to see!

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M A NH AT TA N BE ACH BOTA NICA L G A R DEN www.mbbgarden.org Located in Polliwog Park, the Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden is a five-acre oasis featuring California native plants, colorful gardens, and peaceful walking paths. It’s a beautiful spot to relax, explore, and learn about sustainable landscaping.

ROUNDHOUSE AQUARIUM roundhouseaquarium.org Perched at the end of the Manhattan Beach Pier, the Roundhouse Aquarium offers a fun and educational look at the marine life of Santa Monica Bay. Explore interactive exhibits, get up close to local sea creatures, and learn about ocean conservation through hands-on displays. With free admission and spectacular coastal views, it’s a favorite destination for visitors of all ages.

MB FA R MERS M A R K E T TUESDAYS • 11A M-3PM downtownmanhattanbeach.com/ manhattan-beach-farmers-market The Manhattan Beach Farmers Market brings fresh flavors to Downtown Manhattan Beach every Tuesday from 11am to 3pm at the Civic Center Plaza. Browse locally grown produce, sustainably sourced seafood, and handcrafted goods from more than 50 vendors. With live music, family-friendly activities, and plenty of artisanal treats, it’s a great way to support local businesses while enjoying the ocean air year-round.

A DV EN TUR E PLE X https://bchd.org/adventureplex AdventurePlex is a 16,000-square-foot family destination where kids can play, climb, learn, and stay active. Featuring an outdoor ropes course, rock climbing, camps, and special events, it’s designed to make healthy habits fun. Operated by Beach Cities Health District, AdventurePlex helps children and families play their way to good health.

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From world-class beach volleyball and cycling events to outdoor concerts, holiday celebrations, and beloved community traditions, Manhattan Beach offers something to enjoy all year long. Explore the event calendar below and scan the QR codes for the latest information, schedules, registration details, and event updates.

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JULY 16-19 MANHATTAN BEACH OPEN TENNIS TOURNAMENT ................................

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DIGNITY HEALTH SPORTS PARK 18400 Avalon Blvd. Carson, CA 90746 ............................................310-630-2053 dignityhealthsportspark.com DIVE N’ SURF 504 N. Broadway Redondo Beach, CA 90277 ..............................310-372-8423 divensurf.com See our ad page 2 EL PORTO SURF SHOP 3804 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-753-1509 elportosurfshop.com HERMOSA CYCLERY 20 13th St. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 ..............................310-374-7816 hermosacyclery.com See our ad page 62 HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM 6215 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028.....................................310-867-7067 premium.livenation.com/venue/hollywood-palladium JWM RACING INC 111 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-372-0672 www.johnjohnracer.com LOS ANGELES CHARGERS One Chargers Way El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................424-277-9957 chargers.com MANHATTAN BEACH 10K P.O. Box 3431 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-260-6548 www.mb10k.com MANHATTAN BEACH FOOD & WINE 1601 N. Sepulveda Blvd., #343 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-213-5111 MBFoodAndWine.com RENT ME BEACH..............................................424-522-8388 rentmebeach.com ROUNDHOUSE AQUARIUM TEACHING CENTER 2 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-379-8117 roundhouseaquarium.org See our ad page 21 SPYDER SURF 1116 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-318-2289 spydersurf.com STUDIO GOLF SOUTH BAY 2201 Park Place El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................424-677-8267 studiogolfclub.com

CLEAN BOOKS PLUS ........................................630-697-0179 cleanbooksplus.com CLEANUP LLC ..................................................310-870-1390 cleanup.la COASTAL INTERACTIVE 1117 5th St., Unit D Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-374-5406 coastalinteractive.com COMPASS BUSINESS SOLUTIONS 7031 Vista Del Mar Playa del Rey, CA 90293...................................724-650-2285 wearecompass.com DEBONAIR CLEANERS 200 N Sepulveda Blvd Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-749-9931 debonaircleaners.com DELLA RIPA PHOTOGRAPHY ............................310-947-5363 dellaripaphotography.com EL PORTO LAUNDRY 3921 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-453-2727 elportolaundry.com ENCLAVE COWORKING 818 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................619-815-7635 enclavecoworking.com FALLON & ASSOCIATES 3701 Highland Ave., Ste. 301 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-4553 gregfallon.com GEMINI TRAINING SOLUTIONS ........................909-730-7903 www.geminitraining.us

LOOPER SYSTEMS ...........................................424-677-5086 loopersystems.com MANHATTAN BEACH CLEANERS 3220 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-9172 MANHATTAN REPRO 1620 Aviation Blvd., Ste. B Redondo Beach, CA 90278 ..............................310-374-6444 manhattanrepro.com MERIT & MILES | GROUP TRAVEL & DESTINATION EVENTS.........424-209-2692 meritandmiles.com P1 TECHNOLOGIES 3701 Highland Ave., Ste. 300 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-6071 PEOPLEWARE STAFFING, INC. 1730 E. Holly Ave., Ste. 610 El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-640-2406 peoplewarestaffing.com SALT & TIMBER GROUP Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-529-0463 www.saltandtimbergroup.com SOUTH BAY CAN CLEANERS ............................855-623-2267 southbaycancleaners.com STYLE CLEANERS 3415 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-506-8047 STUDIOBINDER 3912 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 SWIPEPORT ......................................................760-224-5216 Swipeport.com THE COPY SHOP 1811 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-374-3666 www.copyshopmb.com THRIFTY CLEANERS 3509 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-5929 TRINET TriNet.com TRIP’S WINDOW SERVICES ........................... 310-363-0781 tripswindows.com TY ENGINEERING AND DESIGN 952 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Ste. 260 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-935-0060 www.ty-eng.com ZENBUSINESS 5511 Parkcrest Dr., Ste. 103 Austin, TX 78731 ..............................................512-765-4985 zenbusiness.com/california-llc

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GLOBE TIRE & AUTOMOTIVE 500 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-376-8866 www.globetireandautomotive.net

ATTAGIRL 1238 Hermosa Ave. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 ..............................424-600-2882 attagirlLA.com

GLOW POWER WASH .......................................949-204-0460 glowca.ai

BACIO DI LATTE 451 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 baciodilatte.us

HILLSHAFER STRATEGIES ................................213-325-1422 hillshaferstrategies.com INTERNATIONAL COSMETICS & REGULATORY SPECIALISTS 947 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Ste. A Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-3223 intlcosmetics.com JOL DESIGN 717A-1 Valley Dr. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 ..............................310-372-0194 joldesign.com

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BAJA SHARKEEZ 3600 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-8811 sharkeez.net BAKERY BY THE YARD 312 Rosecrans Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-497-6462 www.bakerybytheyard.com BEACH PIZZA 3301 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-5401 eatbeachpizza.com

BOA STEAKHOUSE MANHATTAN BEACH 3110 Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-683-4080 www.boasteak.com/manhattan-location

MBWINECO 3500 N. Sepulveda, #140 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-9463 mbwineco.com

THE ARTHUR J 903 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-878-9620 thearthurj.com

BREAD HEAD 1129 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-209-8071 breadheadla.com

MCDONALD’S 5310 W. Rosecrans Ave. Hawthorne, CA 90250 ......................................310-643-8200 www.mcdonalds.com

THE HOOK & PLOW 1112 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-304-2100 thehookandplow.com

BREWCO SOCIAL 124 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-798-2744 www.brewcosocial.com See our ad page 17

MERCADO RESTAURANT 3212A N. Sepulveda Blvd Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-0388 cocinasycalaveras.com

THE HOOK & PLOW HERMOSA BEACH 425 Pier Ave Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 ..............................310-937-5909 thehookandplow.com

CAFE WILD 3505 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-683-5500 cafe-wild.com

NAWA THAI 3713 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-237-2180 nawathai.com

THE KETTLE 1138 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-8511 thekettle.net

COUCOU 1131 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................917-502-8256 coucou.la

NICK & SONS GOURMET MARKET 3307 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-921-8722 nickandsonsmb.com

THE LOCAL YOLK 3414 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-4407 thelocalyolk.com

CULTURE BREWING 327 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-504-0082 culturebrewingco.com

NORTH END CAFFE 3421 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-4782 northendcaffe.com

THE SLICE & PINT 601 N. Pacific Coast Hwy. Redondo Beach, CA ..........................................310-295-0110 thesliceandpint.com

DUNKIN’ MANHATTAN BEACH 1100 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................714-925-0743 dunkindonuts.com

OB’S PUB & GRILL 3610 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-1542 obsmb.com

THE STRAND HOUSE 117 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-7470 thestrandhousemb.com See our ad page 17

EDDIE V’S PRIME SEAFOOD 2101 Rosecrans Ave. El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-414-0074 eddiev.com

PANCHOS 3615 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-6670 www.panchosrestaurant.com/manhattanbeach/index.html

TIN ROOF BISTRO 3500 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. 100 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-939-0900 www.tinroofbistro.com

EL TARASCO 316 Rosecrans Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-924-5511 etsouthbay.com

PARADISE BOWLS 919 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-648-2860 www.paradisebowls.com

TRUE FOOD KITCHEN 860 Pacific Coast Hwy. El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-469-7725 truefoodkitchen.com

ERCOLES BAR 1101 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-372-1997 ercoles1101.com See our ad page 59

PISCES 3216 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-3980 pisces-sushi.com

TWO GUNS ESPRESSO 3516 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-525-4117 twogunsespresso.com

ESPERANZA 309 Manhatan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-422-0057 esperanzamb.com

RAISING CANE’S 2160 E. El Segundo Blvd. El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-893-5494 raisingcanes.com

UMISA RAMEN 314 Rosecrans Ave. Lower Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 www.umisa-ramen.com

FÊTE BISTRO BY SLAY 1017 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-376-1536 fetebyslay.com

ROCK & BREWS EL SEGUNDO 143 Main St El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................424-496-5499 rockandbrews.com

UNCLE BILL’S PANCAKE HOUSE 1305 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-5177 unclebills.net

FISHBAR 3801 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-283-8239 fishbarmb.com

ROCK & BREWS REDONDO BEACH 6300 S Pacific Coast Hwy Redondo Beach, CA 90277 ..............................424-728-4744 rockandbrews.com

ZINC@SHADE 1221 N. Valley Dr. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-698-5559 mb.shadehotel.com/eat-drink

FISHING WITH DYNAMITE 1148 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-893-6299 eatfwd.com

ROCK’N FISH 120 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-379-9900 rocknfishmb.com See our ad page 17

GRUNIONS SPORTS BAR & GRILL 1501 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-9910 Grunionssportsbarandgrill.com See our ad page 43

RYLA 1220 Hermosa Ave. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 ..............................424-247-9881 eatryla.com

JACK MANJIRO 302 Rosecrans Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-206-1199 manjiro.inc

SET THE TABLE PERSONAL CHEF SERVICES ..... 424-350-5490 setthetablela.com

LIL’ SIMMZY’S 850 S. Sepulveda Blvd. El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................424-277-0283 simmzys.com

SIMMZY’S 229 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-1201 simmzys.com

LISA’S BON APPETIT EVENTS & CATERING.. 310-784-1070 lisasbonappetit.com See our ad page 61

SLAY ITALIAN KITCHEN 1001 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-257-8301 slayitaliankitchen.com

LITTLE FRENCH BAKERY 3319 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-504-0245 littlefrenchbakeryla.com

SLAY STEAK & FISH HOUSE 1141 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-504-0902 slaysteakandfishhouse.com

LOCAL KITCHEN DINER 235 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-471-0325 localkitchendiner.com

SLOOPY’S 3416 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-1373 sloopysbeachcafe.com See our ad page 61

LOVE AND SALT 317 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-5252 loveandsaltla.com

SMASHED WAGYU PASTA 314 Rosecrans Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-504-0791 toasttab.com/local/order/smashed-wagyu-pasta

MB POST 1142 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-5405 eatmbpost.com

SUSHI ROKU MANHATTAN BEACH 3110 Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-683-4060 www.sushiroku.com/location/manhattan-beach

FAMILIES & COMMUNITY ADVENTUREPLEX 1701 Marine Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-7708 adventureplex.org AMERICAN MARTYRS CATHOLIC CHURCH 700 15th St. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-5651 www.americanmartyrs.org BAHAI’S OF MANHATTAN BEACH 2200 Pacific Coast Hwy., Ste. 302 Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 ..............................310-989-1700 bahai.org BEACH BABIES 1775 Artesia Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-3966 beachbabies.com See our ad page 69 BEACH SPORTS 112 Arena St. El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................424-423-8159 beachsports.com CREATIVE KIDS PRESCHOOL 1203 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-6540 CreativeKidsManhattanBeach.com EL CAMINO COLLEGE 16007 Crenshaw Blvd. Torrance, CA 90506 ..........................................310-660-3405 elcamino.edu FIRST LUTHERAN CIRCLE OF LOVE PRESCHOOL 1100 N. Poinsettia Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-5653 flcol.org FUSION ACADEMY 1601 Pacific Coast Hwy., Ste. 260 Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 ..............................310-376-5139 fusionacademy.com/campuses/south-bay

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GREEN HILLS MEMORIAL PARK 310-831-0311 | www.GreenHillsLA.com Whether You’re Planning Ahead Or Currently In A Time of Loss, We’re Here To Walk With You Through All of The Details So You Can Have Peace Of Mind About What Comes Next. Call Us At: 310-831-0311 27501 S. Western Ave., Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275 JUST GET CURIOUS..........................................310-897-9583 justgetcurious.org MANHATTAN ACADEMY 1740 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-374-1804 manhattanacademy.com

BICHLMEIER INSURANCE SERVICES, INC. 730 S. Pacific Coast Hwy., #201 Redondo Beach, CA 90277 ..............................310-376-8852 www.BISINS.com

MANHATTAN TAX AND ACCOUNTING 1020 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-3800 manhattantaxandaccounting.com

BMO BANK 2612 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-379-8416 www.bmo.com

NY LIFE FINANCIAL SERVICES .........................619-576-8887 www.newyorklife.com/agent/dagonzalez02

CAMBRIA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, LP 3300 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-683-5500 cambriainvestments.com CAPSTONE PARTNERS FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE SERVICES, LLC 6080 Center Dr. Los Angeles, CA 90045.....................................310-525-9213

MANHATTAN BEACH BOTANICAL GARDEN 1236 N. Peck Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 mbbgarden.org MANHATTAN BEACH UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 325 S. Peck Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-318-7345 mbusd.org See our ad page 66 PIPER PRESCHOOL 1340 11th St., Ste. 807 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-844-1800 piperpreschool.com/mbcampus PUTTIN’ ON PRODUCTIONS (POPS) 2010 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. A Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-941-1850 puttinonproductions.com SAND TOTS PARENT PARTICIPATION PRESCHOOL 2227 Artesia Blvd. Redondo Beach, CA 90278 ..............................310-370-4300 sandtots.com SHALEM EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING COMMUNITY 1829 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................914-224-5882 shalempreschool.org SILVERADO MEMORY CARE - BEACH CITIES 514 N. Prospect Ave. Redondo Beach, CA 90277 ..............................310-896-3100 www.silveradosenior.com SILVERADO MEMORY CARE - ROLLING HILLS 2455 Pacific Coast Hwy. Lomita, CA 90505 ............................................424-488-0593 www.silverado.com/locations/rolling-hills SOUTH BAY EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANTS, INC. ........................................310-227-3796 sbeducationalconsultants.com SOUTH HILLS CHURCH 1403 Pacific Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 southhills.org/manhattanbeach ST. CROSS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1818 Monterey Blvd. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 ..............................310-376-8989 stcross.org SYLVAN LEARNING OF MANHATTAN BEACH-EL SEGUNDO & HERMOSA BEACH 1137 Aviation Blvd. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 ..............................310-341-3137 sylvanlearning.com/elsegundoca THE ACADEMY AT MANHATTAN BEACH A BRIGHT HORIZONS PRESCHOOL 1114 22nd St. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-453-2041 brighthorizons.com/academy-manhattanbeach THE CANDID CONVERSATION SERIES 544 Marine Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................619-306-3498 www.thecandidconversationseries.org VISTAMAR SCHOOL 737 Hawaii St. El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-643-7377 www.vistamarschool.org See our ad page 69

FINANCIAL & INSURANCE ALDRICH & TURKMANY INSURANCE 920 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Ste. 2 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-374-3400 www.mercuryinsurance.com/agents/california/aldrich-turkmany-ins-044634.html ALLSTATE INSURANCE K J ARBUES 1021 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-796-7955 www.allstateagencies.com/kj.arbues See our ad page 47

REGATTA CAPITAL GROUP 880 Apollo St., Ste. 129 El Segundo, CA 90245.....................................310-725-9102 regattainvest.com THE ADISHIAN GROUP, MERRILL LYNCH WEALTH MANAGEMENT 2301 Rosecrans Ave., Ste. 3150 El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-536-1670 fa.ml.com/adishian_group VITA WEALTH ADVISORS Manhattan Beach, CA ......................................310-921-8736 vitawealthadvisors.com

GOVERNMENT, UTILITIES & AGENCIES CITIZENS PRIVATE BANK 310-897-4380 www.citizensbank.com/private-banking/locations/ manhattan-beach-ca.aspx Citizens Private Bank delivers high-touch, integrated banking and wealth management solutions to high and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, families, and businesses. 200 N. PCH, El Segundo, CA 90245 CITY NATIONAL BANK 2231 Rosecrans Ave., Ste. A El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-536-4830 www.cnb.com

CALIFORNIA RETIREMENT ADVISORS 310-643-7472 | cradvisors.com Since 1997, helping South Bay families grow and protect wealth, reduce taxes, prepare for retirement, and live the life they CRAve. Confident planning begins over coffee at the CRAve-Life Lounge 1419 Highland Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 DAVID CURRY | BANK OF AMERICA 2301 Rosecrans Ave. El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................424-405-4631 mortgage.bankofamerica.com/davidcurry EDWARD JONES | AUDREY STANSBURY CFP, FINANCIAL ADVISOR 1230 Rosecrans Ave., Ste. 290 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-725-7034 edwardjones.com FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK .....................714-812-5355 fmb.com GERBER KAWASAKI WEALTH & INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT ........................951-234-6573 gerberkawasaki.com H.T. YOUNG WEALTH 2040 Hermosa Ave. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 ..............................310-625-7999 htyoungwealth.com HARIK THOMPSON CPAS 25500 Hawthorne Blvd., Ste. 2120 Torrance, CA 90505 ..........................................310-378-9911 harikthompsoncpas.com J.P. MORGAN PRIVATE BANK 222 N. Pacific Coast Hwy., Ste. 11-151 El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-531-5910 privatebank.jpmorgan.com/nam/en/locations/united-states/ california/south-bay JWM CPA & COMPANY PC 111 N. Sepulveda Blvd., #310 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-372-0672 manhattanbeachcpa.com KINECTA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION 1440 Rosecrans Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90245 ...........................310-643-2571 kinecta.org

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CITY OF MANHATTAN BEACH Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-802-5000 www.citymb.info See our ad page 7 DOWNTOWN MB BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 3298 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-379-9901 DowntownManhattanBeach.com See our ad page 5, 8, 9, 10, 11 MANHATTAN BEACH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 425 15th St, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-5313 manhattanbeachchamber.com METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT 700 N. Alameda St., 10-201 Los Angeles, CA 90012.....................................213-217-5538 mwdh2o.com NORTH MANHATTAN BEACH BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT 425 15th St. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-802-5597 visitnorthmanhattanbeach.com See our ad page 19 SOUTH BAY CITIES COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS 357 Van Ness Way, #110 Torrance, CA 90501 ..........................................310-371-7222 southbaycities.org

SOUTH BAY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD The SBWIB operates four Business & Career Centers, including the Torrance One-Stop serving Manhattan Beach, connecting employers with talent and helping workers access well-paid careers. Call 310-970-7700 or visit www.sbwib.org 11539 Hawthorne Blvd., Ste. 500, Hawthorne, CA 90250 See our ad page 71 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY San Pedro, CA 90731 .......................................800-427-2200 www.socalgas.com WASTE MANAGEMENT .....................................818-389-3799 wm.com WATER REPLENISHMENT DISTRICT 4040 Paramount Blvd. Lakewood, CA 90712 .......................................562-272-7255 wrd.org WEST BASIN MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT 17140 S. Avalon Blvd., Ste. 210 Carson, CA 90746 ............................................310-217-2411 www.westbasinca.gov

HEALTH & BEAUTY AESTHETICS ON HIGHLAND 3713 Highland Ave., Ste. 4 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-902-3362 aestheticsonhighland.com BEAM AESTHETIC LOUNGE 451 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-216-8223 www.beam-skin.com BODYWORK BY ALICIA 3214 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-689-8399 yelp.com/biz/bodywork-by-alicia-manhattan-beach BOX HUMAN LANDSCAPERS 3515 Highland Ave., Back Room Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-802-5770 humanlandscapers.com

BÜNDA MANHATTAN BEACH 1130 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................323-578-0493 trainbunda.com/buy-classes-manhattan-beach

THE NOW MASSAGE SOUTH BAY 710-A S. Allied Way El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-455-6766 thenowmassage.com/south-bay See our ad page 3

RESIDENCE INN LOS ANGELES LAX MANHATTAN BEACH 1700 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-421-3102 Marriott.com/LAXMH

ENDLESS SUMMER SALON 3417 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-1006

THE STUDIO (MDR) 1590 Rosecrans Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266...........................424-675-4382 www.thestudiomdr.com

SEA VIEW INN 3400 Highland Ave., #3401 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-1504 theseaviewinn.com

TOMMY CASSANO 2006 N Sepulveda Blvd., #130 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................856-996-5432 tommycassano.com

SHADE MANHATTAN BEACH 1221 N. Valley Dr. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266...........................310-546-4995 mb.shadehotel.com

WAVES BARBER SHOP & BOUTIQUE 310 Rosecrans Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-491-8896

THE BELAMAR HOTEL, TAPESTRY COLLECTION BY HILTON 3501 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 TheBelamar.com

HEAL LA 3201 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. B Hermosa Beach, CA 90266 ..............................310-910-1735 heal-losangeles.com KM SKIN STUDIO 3333 Redondo Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90277 ...........................310-702-4393 kmskinstudio.com LE SORELLE SALON 3315 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-0743 LOVE.LIFE 740 S. Pacific Coast Hwy. El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-424-7011 love.life MONIQUE POWERS BEAUTY BOUTIQUE 2455 190th St., Ste. H Redondo Beach, CA 90278 ..............................310-869-8383 www.moniquepowers.com

HOME & GARDEN ALL ABOUT DESIGN STUDIO 453 27th St. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-442-0251 allaboutdesignstudio.com ARCHEMY.LA 1220 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-880-7719 archemy.la ATMOSPHERE (SOLAR & EV) 2006 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Unit 109 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-574-2622 atmo-home.com BEACHCRAFT beachcraft.la

NATURAL PILATES 310-804-6386 | naturalpilates.com Natural Pilates delivers an athletic take on classical Pilates, combining intentional movement, precise form, and level-based resistance to create a challenging full-body workout that builds strength, improves mobility, and deepens overall body awareness. 451 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Ste. B200 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

DETAILS TILE AND STONE STUDIO 520 Cypress Ave. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 ..............................424-452-6203 detailstileandstone.com

OCEAN FITNESS 3413 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-9952

REMODELUP, INC ............................................323-719-2204 www.remodelup.com

POLISH BY SAND SPA 3219 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-796-2457 sand-spa.com/polish-manhattan-beach ROCKIT BODY PILATES 1834 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-452-6040 rockitbody.com ROUND WILLOW YOGA 3504 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-985-1440 roundwillowyoga.com SAI HAIR STUDIO 3940 Highland Ave, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-487-7993 SALON FLOURISH 3515 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-809-8194 salonflourish.com SALTWATER SALON 3713 Highland, Ste. 3 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-469-3984 saltwatersalonmb.com SAND SPA - DOWNTOWN MB 1213 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-755-9084 sand-spa.com SAND SPA - NORTH MB 3408 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-921-8231 sand-spa.com SOL SEEK YOGA 3618 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-372-7334 SPATHÉNÉE WELLNESS CENTER 210 N. Aviation Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-237-5199 www.spathenee.com/manhattanbeach SUGARING LA 3713 Highland Ave., Unit 5 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-795-9125

DUCK EGG BLUE INTERIOR DESIGN................914-924-2631 www.duckeggblueinteriordesign.com RELIABLE PLANT SERVICE, INC. 1116 Eighth St., Ste. B Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-798-8770 reliableplantservice.com

RJ SMITH CO 901 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-648-8353 rjsmith.co

WESTDRIFT AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION HOTELS 1400 Parkview Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-7511 westdrift.com XENIA STAYS 2006 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-906-0325 xeniastays.com

LEGAL BAKER BURTON & LUNDY 515 Pier Ave. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 ..............................310-376-9893 bakerburtonlundy.com CHASE LAW GROUP 1001 6th St., Ste. 150 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-7700 chaselawmb.com DOLL AMIR & ELEY LLP 3800 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................213-542-3380 ELLIS RICCOBONO 3515 Highland Ave., #102 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-901-1202 GAMMILL LAW ACCIDENT & INJURY LAWYERS 3820 Del Amo Blvd., Ste. 304 Torrance, CA 90503 ..........................................310-750-4149 gammill.law LAW OFFICE OF STEVEN F CARVEL, APC 515 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. D Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-4606

SALT & TIMBER GROUP Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-529-0463 www.saltandtimbergroup.com SOUTH BAY STEWARD 1600 Rosecrans Ave., Bldg. 7, 4th Fl. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-749-3952 steward.la WATER, INC. P.O. Box 3429 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................800-322-9283 www.waterinc.com ZIMAX RESTORATION 806 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Ste. 206 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-213-5510 www.zimaxrestoration.com

136 Main St., Ste. E, El Segundo, CA 90245 310-546-9118 | www.jossenlawfirm.com We work on contingency for victims of injuries 44 years of experience No Recovery - No Fee WE OFFER CLIENTS EXPERIENCED LEGAL HELP • Serious or catastrophic personal injuries • Sexual abuse and molestation cases • Premises liability • Auto, bicycle, motorcycles, truck accidents

HOSPITALITY BEACH HOUSE HOTEL 1300 The Strand Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 .............................310-374-3001 beach-house.com/hermosa-beach CITY EXPRESS BY MARRIOTT 1817 N. Sepulveda Blvd. .........................310-546-8942 x402 www.marriott.com/en-gb/hotels/laxmx-city-express-manhattan-beach/overview HI VIEW INN & SUITES 100 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-374-4608 hiviewinn.com MANHATTAN BEACH HOTEL 4017 N. Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-9020 manhattan-beach-hotel.com

MANN LEGAL TEAM 310-726-1800 | mannlegalteam.com A boutique litigation, corporate & estate planning firm working with clients in complex litigation, class actions & healthcare regulatory matters. We also prepare wills & trusts for individuals & families, both young & wellestablished. 214 Main St., Ste. 220, El Segundo, CA 90245 MORADI NEUFER LLP 2121 Ave. of the Stars, Ste. 800 Los Angeles, CA 90067.....................................310-905-5254 californiafamilylawgroup.com

ORANGE DOOR STAYS 1815 Hawthorne Blvd., #110 Redondo Beach, CA 90278 ..............................213-342-1335 orangedoorco.com

SVELTE BARBERSHOP 3213 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................323-645-0990 gosvelte.com

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MERCY MEDICAL WASTE .................................310-962-7742 www.mercymedicalwaste.com

THE RYAN LAW GROUP 310-321-4800 | theryanlawgroup.com We provide high-caliber representation to victims of personal injury, advocating tirelessly for clients by seeking the most beneficial outcome. With a 99% success rate & no fee unless clients receive a settlement/verdict in their favor. 317 Rosecrans Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

MANUFACTURING CHEVRON 324 W. El Segundo Blvd. El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-615-5387 chevronelsegundo.com See our ad page 50 NORTHROP GRUMMAN Redondo Beach, CA 90278 northropgrumman.com

MEDICAL SERVICES BEACH BRACES 220 N. Aviation Blvd., Ste. A Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-379-0006 beachbraces.org

MINDFUL WELLNESS 1000 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. 230 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-220-4543 mindfulwellness.com See our ad page 33 MOUNTAIN TO SEA PHYSICAL THERAPY 3212 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-567-2293 mountaintoseapt.com OCEAN SKIN AND VEIN INSTITUTE Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-7780 osvidermatology.com PALMER CHIROPRACTIC 3217 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-802-0100 drchrispalmer.com

THE DRAGON AND PHOENIX HEALER 3215 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-6528

PS I LOVE YOU FOUNDATION 1408 Goodman Ave. Redondo Beach, CA 90278 ..............................310-420-4717 psiloveyoufoundation.org

COASTAL ANTI-AGING MEDICAL GROUP 23560 Madison St. Torrance, CA 90505 ..........................................424-328-0203 drchongkim.com

UCLA HEALTH 3445 Pacific Coast Hwy. Torrance, CA 90505 www.uclahealth.org/SouthBay

DENISE MCDERMOTT M.D. 3701 Highland Ave., #303A Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-944-9493 drdenisemd.com

WITHERS DENTAL 973 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Ste. A Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-2002 withersdental.com

LORI J. CLARK, OD 1145 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-4618 DrLoriJClark.com LOVE.LIFE 740 S. Pacific Coast Hwy. El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-424-7011 love.life MANHATTAN BEACH ORTHODONTICS 1117 2nd St. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-372-6600 manhattanbeachortho.com MANHATTAN DERMATOLOGY 400 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. 205 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-1188 manhattan-dermatology.com MARICEL ROCHA HEALTH EXTENSION 1520 3rd St. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-282-3033 maricelrocha.com MELODY MOORE, PH.D. 3701 Highland Ave., Ste. 303B Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................214-912-8693 drmelodymoore.com

MB SAFE ..........................................................310-863-7708 mbsafe.org

NEPTUNIAN WOMAN’S CLUB 920 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 neptunians.org

TORRANCE MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER 3330 Lomita Blvd. Torrance, CA 90505 ..........................................310-325-9110 TorranceMemorial.org See our ad page 35

L.A. CENTER FOR EAR, NOSE, THROAT AND ALLERGY 1700 E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90033.....................................909-800-1040 laent.com

MANHATTAN BEACH NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH .................................310-802-5183 manhattanbeach.gov/departments/police-department/ neighborhood-watch

SOLLIS HEALTH 1000 N. Sepulveda, Ste. 150 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310 870-0400 sollishealth.com

CITY OF HOPE 5215 Torrance Blvd., Ste. 200 Torrance, CA 90503 cityofhope.org See our ad Inside Front Cover

GIMLEN ORTHODONTICS 973 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Ste. C Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-6525 gimlenorthodontics.com

MANHATTAN BEACH HOMETOWN FAIR Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 mbfair.org

MYCHAL’S LEARNING PLACE 4901 W. Rosecrans Ave. Hawthorne, CA 90250 ......................................310-297-9333 mychals.org

TOOTHLINGS PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY 3500 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-421-2770 toothlings.com

EXER URGENT CARE 3215 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-295-0540 exerurgentcare.com

MANHATTAN BEACH EDUCATION FOUNDATION 325 S. Peck Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-303-3342 mbef.org See our ad page 67

PATTY BROWN PHYSICAL THERAPY 880 Apollo St., Ste. 160 El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-606-5664 pattybrownpt.com

BEACH CITIES OPTOMETRY 1103 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-376-8975 www.beachcitiesoptometry.com

DR U HAIR AND SKIN CLINIC 2121 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-318-1500 dru.com

MANHATTAN BEACH COORDINATING COUNCIL 425 15th St. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-995-8766 mbcoordinatingcouncil.com

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NON-PROFITS BEACH CITIES HEALTH DISTRICT 1200 Del Amo St. Redondo Beach, CA 90277 ..............................310-374-3426 www.bchd.org See our ad page 33 BEACH CITIES MASONIC LODGE #753 AND ACACIA HALL MB 1535 Artesia Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................917-972-4266 www.beachcitiesmasons.org

RICHSTONE FAMILY CENTER 13634 Cordary Ave. Hawthorne, CA 90250 ......................................310-970-1921 RichstoneFamily.org ROTARY CLUB OF MANHATTAN BEACH P.O. Box 691 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-374-8365 portal.clubrunner.ca/2530 SANDPIPERS P.O. Box 72 Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 ..............................805-801-4560 sandpipers.org SEQUEL OF LIFE INCORPORATED 2455 190th St., Ste. H Redondo Beach, CA 90278 ..............................424-458-8000 www.sequeloflife.org SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF SOUTH BAY P.O. Box 3485 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 www.sisouthbay.org SOUTH BAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION.................310-600-2848 southbayfriends.org VENICE FAMILY CLINIC venicefamilyclinic.org

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BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARSON 1950 E. 220th St., Ste. 207 Carson, CA 90810 ............................................310-522-0500 www.bgccarson.org

VEG ER FOR PETS 1800 N. Sepulveda, Ste. 100 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................818-720-3057 veg.com/locations/california/manhattan-beach

CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY 2601 Airport Dr., Ste. 100 Torrance, CA 90505 ..........................................310-376-3550 cscsouthbay.org

WOOFIE’S OF TORRANCE 4881 W. 130th St. Hawthorne, CA 90250 ......................................310-213-9298 woofies.com/torrance

CHEMOCESSORIES 1116 8th St., Unit C Manhattan Beach, CA 90266...........................310-488-6715 www.chemocessories.org CULTURE CLUB SOUTH BAY ............................917-805-5152 cultureclubsb.com FRIENDS OF SENIOR & SCOUT COMMUNITY CENTER P.O. Box 3628 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-922-7965 thescouthouse.org GOLDEN HEART RANCH ...................................310-567-6984 goldenheartranch.org LEADERSHIP MANHATTAN BEACH P.O. Box 3046 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-218-6079 leadershipmb.org LOVEMB FOUNDATION 2006 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. 472 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................323-366-1123 lovemb.org

REAL ESTATE & MOVING ABBY WADDELL | COMPASS 21250 Hawthorne Blvd., #750 Torrance, CA 90503 ..........................................310-753-0770 See our ad page 59 AUDREY JUDSON 1300 Highland Ave., #208 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-902-3234 AudreyJudson.com See our ad page 51 AVANTGE REAL ESTATE - ANDY WATKINS 1730 E. Holly St., #621 El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-383-6239 www.Avantge.com BARBERI REAL ESTATE GROUP - VISTA SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY 1144 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-529-2344 www.TonyBarberi.com BARON EQUITIES 2121 Rosecrans Ave., Ste. 4335 El Segundo, CA 90245.....................................310-844-6500 baroneq.com BEACH CITIES BUILDER ..................................310-502-4720 BeachCitiesBuilder.com

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BOYD THE BROKER REAL ESTATE ....................310-521-2902 boydthebroker.com CITY WIDE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & REAL ESTATE 1021 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. F Manhattan Beach, CA 90266...........................310-798-4085 www.citywidepropertymgt.com COLIN AITA REAL ESTATE ................................310-722-9986 colinaita.com See our ad Inside Back Cover CONTINENTAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 2041 Rosecrans Ave., Ste. 200 El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-640-1520 continentaldevelopment.com See our ad page 47

MERRITT & SANDERSON REAL ESTATE GROUP 3300 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-699-0836 msrehomes.com

ELY & SMARTT SHOPS 901-925 N. Sepulveda Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................760-431-9363 See our ad page 45

PIER ESCROW 3612 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-802-2887

EREWHON MARKET 1700 Rosecrans Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-220-2047 erewhon.com

RAY JOSEPH, REALTOR ....................................310-545-7295 rayjoseph.com REMAX AEGIS 1716 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Ste. A Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-6300 www.remaxaegisca.com RPM COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE 525 S. Douglas St. El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................424-281-3701 rpmres.com

DAVE CASKEY REAL ESTATE GROUP 310-374-1800 | caskeyrealestategroup.com Manhattan Beach real estate specialists serving the South Bay for 35+ years. Experts in luxury homes, new construction, ocean-view properties, residential development sites, and coastal real estate in Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach. 1117 5th St., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 See our ad page 63 DARYL PALMER BEACH HOMES 1401 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-502-4240 SouthBayFineProperties.com DENTON & DENTON 3516 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-683-8227 dentonanddenton.com

STRAND HILL | FORBES GLOBAL PROPERTIES 310-545-0707 | www.strandhill.com At Strand Hill | Forbes Global Properties, expertise meets trust, discretion, and excellence. The South Bay’s premier luxury boutique brokerage, with over $8 billion in sales since 2014. 1141 Highland Ave., 2nd Fl., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 See our ad page 57 THE 119 1230 Rosecrans Ave., Ste. 300 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-880-1220 119llc.com

GROWING WILD 1201 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-4432 growingwildmanhattanbeach.com GUM TREE 1140 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-318-2990 gumtreela.com MANHATTAN BEACH TOYOTA 1500 N. Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-4848 manhattanbeachtoyota.com MANHATTAN VILLAGE SHOPPING CENTER 3200 Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-5555 ShopManhattanVillage.com MARY KELLEY’S 23RD STREET 1020 Manhattan Beach Blvd., #203 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-740-2267 MBI VINTAGE 208 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-801-0099 MBIvintage.com METLOX 701 N. Brand Blvd., Ste. 810 Glendale, CA 91206 .........................................310-486-6629 tolkingroup.com OUNCE OF SALT JEWELRY ...............................310-709-6400 ounceofsaltjewelry.com {PAGES} A BOOKSTORE 904 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-318-0900 www.pagesabookstore.com

ENGEL & VÖLKERS LA SOUTHBAY | SABINE BIRKENFIELD 310-529-4515 | sabinebirkenfeld.evrealestate.com I am your real estate source & guide for the Southern California Beach Cities as well as the greater South Bay area. If you own real estate that you’re thinking of selling, I would be happy to provide you with a FREE Home Evaluation. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ESTATE PROPERTIES 1401 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-378-9494 estateproperties.com ESTATE PROPERTIES - BILL RUANE 402 Main St. El Segundo, CA 90245 .....................................310-877-2374 billruane.net FISHER REAL ESTATE 1401 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-902-7214 www.FisherRealEstate.com JEN CASKEY GROUP 805 Manhattan Ave., #201 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-200-5900 jencaskeygroup.com See our ad page 1 KAMINSKY REAL ESTATE GROUP Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-427-2414 itzsold.com

THE HOBIN COMPANY 310-925-2529 | www.thehobincompany.com Residential real estate team focused on the luxury communities of Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, and the South Bay, with a strong presence in the Palm Desert market. Luxury service, local expertise, and proven results since 1925. 920 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Ste. 1 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 THE INNATE GROUP, INC. 46-E Peninsula Center Dr., Ste. 206 Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274 ........................310-213-2703 theinnategroup.com ZEBROWSKI GROUP 1214 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-678-7158 Zebrowskigroup.com

RETAIL 2001 N. SEPULVEDA HOLDING 2121 Ave of the Stars, #800 Los Angeles, CA 90067.....................................310-407-5438 ARCO AMPM 1002 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90226 ...........................310-545-8552 BARLZ SURF SHOP barlz.com ..........................................................310-433-0239

LIDA SANDERA - VISTA SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY ..................................310-721-3196 sothebysrealty.com/eng/associate/180-a-4600-4036301/ lida-sandera See our ad page 61

BELLA BEACH 225 Manhattan Beach Boulevard Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-529-1911 bellabeachkids.com

MANHATTAN PLAZA 111 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. 250 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-798-0292 manhattan-plaza.com

BLUE DIAMOND JEWELER 1009 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-921-8707 bluediamondjeweler.com

MANHATTAN VILLAGE SENIOR VILLAS 1300 Parkview Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-4062

BO BRIDGES GALLERY 1108 Manhattan Ave Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-937-3764 bobridgesgallery.com

MATT MORRIS DEVELOPMENT 3508 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-4300 mattmorrisdevelopment.com

CRAFTED SWEET ..............................................310-422-7381 craftedsweet.com EL PORTO SURF SHOP 3804 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-753-1509 elportosurfshop.com

PLAYERS LIQUOR 3804 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-753-1509 RAILS 3200 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. S110 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-455-6488 rails.com SALVATORES SHOE REPAIR 3507 Highland Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-545-8891 SANUK HEADQUARTERS 3701 Highland Ave., #200 Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-897-3714 SEYMOUR JEWELERS 1212 Hermosa Ave. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 ..............................760-699-1874 seymourjewelers.com SKECHERS 228 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................424-634-7134 skechers.com See our ad Back Cover SPYDER SURF 1116 Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-318-2289 spydersurf.com STRAND SECTION 212 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-504-0139 strandsection.com TABULA RASA ESSENTIALS 919A Manhattan Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-318-3385 www.tabularasaessentials.com THE COMIC BUG 1807 1/2 Manhattan Beach Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-372-6704 www.thecomicbug.com VILLAGE RUNNER 1840 Sepulveda Blvd. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-1888 villagerunner.com WATERLEAF INTERIORS 1210 Morningside Dr. Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 ...........................310-546-5400 www.waterleafinteriors.com

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Abby Waddell | COMPASS, 310-753-0770...................................76

Cafe Wild, 310-683-5500 .............................................................73

Accelerate MB, 310-928-9228 .....................................................72

California Retirement Advisors, 310-643-7472.............................74

Adventureplex, 310-546-7708 ................................................ 72,73

Cali Maids, 424-799-3613 ...........................................................72

Aesthetics On Highland, 310-902-3362........................................74

Cambria Investment Management, LP, 310-683-5500..................74

ALCO USA, 208-391-7176 ............................................................72

Cancer Support Community South Bay, 310-376-3550 ................76

Aldrich & Turkmany Insurance, 310-374-3400 .............................74

Capstone Partners Financial and Insurance Services, LLC, 310-525-9213 ...........................74

All About Design Studio, 424-442-0251 .......................................75

El Tarasco, 310-924-5511 ............................................................73 Ely & Smartt Shops, 760-431-9363 .............................................77 Enclave Coworking, 619-815-7635 ...............................................72 Endless Summer Salon, 310-545-1006 ........................................75 Engel & Völkers LA Southbay | Sabine Birkenfield, 310-529-4515 ..........................................77 Ercoles Bar, 310-372-1997 ..........................................................73 Erewhon Market, 424-220-2047...................................................77

Chase Law Group, 310-545-7700.................................................75

Esperanza, 424-422-0057 ............................................................73

Chemocessories, 310-488-6715...................................................76

Estate Properties, 310-378-9494 .................................................77

Chevron, 310-615-5387 ...............................................................76

Estate Properties - Bill Ruane, 310-877-2374..............................77

Citizens Private Bank, 310-897-4380 ...........................................74

Exer Urgent Care, 424-295-0540 ..................................................76

ARCO ampm, 310-545-8552 ........................................................77

City Express by Marriott, 310-546-8942 x402 ..............................75

Atmosphere (Solar & EV), 310-574-2622.....................................75

City National Bank, 310-536-4830 ...............................................74

AttaGirl, 424-600-2882 ................................................................72

City of Hope ..................................................................................76

Audrey Judson, 310-902-3234......................................................76

City of Manhattan Beach, 310-802-5000 .....................................74

Avantge Real Estate - Andy Watkins, 310-383-6239 ....................76

City Wide Property Management & Real Estate, 310-798-4085 ...77

Clean Books Plus, 630-697-0179.................................................72

Allstate Insurance K J Arbues, 310-796-7955 ..............................74 American Martyrs Catholic Church, 310-545-5651.......................73 archemy.LA, 310-880-7719 ..........................................................75

Bacio di Latte ................................................................................72 Bahai’s of Manhattan Beach, 310-989-1700................................73 Baja Sharkeez, 310-545-8811 .....................................................72 Baker Burton & Lundy, 310-376-9893 .........................................75 Bakery by the Yard, 310-497-6462...............................................72 Barberi Real Estate Group - Vista Sotheby’s International Realty, 310-529-2344..............76 Barlz Surf Shop, 310-433-0239 ...................................................77 Baron Equities, 310-844-6500 .....................................................76

Cleanup LLC, 310-870-1390 ........................................................72

Fallon & Associates, 310-545-4553 .............................................72 Farmers & Merchants Bank, 714-812-5355 .................................74 Fête Bistro by Slay, 310-376-1536 ...............................................73 First Lutheran Circle of Love Preschool, 310-545-5653 ................73 FishBar, 310-283-8239 ................................................................73

Coastal Anti-Aging Medical Group, 424-328-0203 .......................76

Fisher Real Estate, 310-902-7214................................................77

Coastal Interactive, 310-374-5406 ...............................................72

Fishing with Dynamite, 310-893-6299..........................................73

Coast Music, 310-372-4753.........................................................72

Friends of Senior & Scout Community Center, 310-922-7965 ......76

Colin Aita Real Estate, 310-722-9986 ..........................................77

Fusion Academy, 310-376-5139...................................................73

Compass Business Solutions, 724-650-2285 ...............................72

Continental Development Corporation, 310-640-1520 .................77 Coucou, 917-502-8256 ................................................................73 Crafted Sweet, 310-422-7381 ......................................................77

Gammill Law Accident & Injury Lawyers, 310-750-4149 ..............76 Gemini Training Solutions, 909-730-7903 ....................................72

Creative Kids Preschool, 310-546-6540 .......................................73

Gerber Kawasaki Wealth & Investment Management, 951-234-6573 .............................74

Culture Brewing, 310-504-0082 ...................................................73

Gimlen Orthodontics, 310-545-6525 ............................................76

Culture Club South Bay, 917-805-5152 .......................................76

Globe Tire & Automotive, 310-606-0901 ......................................72

Beach Cities Builder, 310-502-4720 ............................................76

Glow Power Wash, 949-204-0460 ................................................72

Beach Cities Health District, 310-374-3426 .................................76

Daryl Palmer Beach Homes, 310-502-4240 .................................77

Golden Heart Ranch, 310-567-6984 ............................................76

Beach Cities Masonic Lodge #753 and Acacia Hall MB, 917-972-4266 ........................................76

Dave Caskey Real Estate Group, 310-374-1800 ...........................77

Green Hills Memorial Park, 310-831-0311 ...................................74

David Curry | Bank of America, 424-405-4631............................74

Growing Wild, 310-545-4432 .......................................................77

Beach Cities Optometry, 310-376-8975 .......................................76

Debonair Cleaners, 310-749-9931 ...............................................72

Grunions Sports Bar & Grill, 310-545-9910 .................................73

Beachcraft .....................................................................................75

Della Ripa Photography, 310-947-5363 .......................................72

Gum Tree, 310-318-2990 .............................................................77

Beach House Hotel, 310-374-3001 ..............................................75

Denise McDermott M.D., 310-944-9493.......................................76

Beach Pizza, 310-546-5401 .........................................................72

Denton & Denton, 310-683-8227.................................................77

Beachside Bikes, 512-850-8486 ..................................................72

Details Tile and Stone Studio, 424-452-6203 ..............................75

Beach Sports, 424-423-8159 .......................................................73

Dignity Health Sports Park, 310-630-2053...................................72

Beam Aesthetic Lounge, 424-216-8223 .......................................74

Dive N’ Surf, 310-372-8423 .........................................................72

Bella Beach, 310-529-1911 .........................................................77

Doll Amir & Eley LLP, 213-542-3380............................................75

Bichlmeier Insurance Services, Inc., 310-376-8852 .....................74

Downtown MB Business and Professional Association, 310-379-9901 ..........................73

Hi View Inn & Suites, 310-374-4608............................................75

Dr U Hair and Skin Clinic, 310-318-1500 .....................................76

H.T. Young Wealth, 310-625-7999 ................................................74

Duck Egg Blue Interior Design, 914-924-2631 .............................75

Barrister Executive Suites, Inc., 310-922-2363 .............................72 Beach Babies, 310-546-3966 ......................................................73 Beach Braces, 310-379-0006 ......................................................76

Bluebay Agency, LLC, 213-867-7879 ............................................72 Blue Diamond Jeweler, 310-921-8707 .........................................77 BMO Bank, 310-379-8416 ...........................................................74 Bo Bridges Gallery, 310-937-3764 ...............................................77 Boa Steakhouse Manhattan Beach, 310-683-4080......................73 Bodywork By Alicia, 310-689-8399 ..............................................74 Box Human Landscapers, 310-802-5770 .....................................74 Boyd The Broker Real Estate, 310-521-2902 ...............................77

Dunkin’ Manhattan Beach, 714-925-0743 ...................................73

H Harik Thompson CPAs, 310-378-9911 ..........................................74 Heal LA, 310-910-1735 ................................................................75 Hermosa Cyclery, 310-374-7816 ..................................................72 Hillshafer Strategies, 213-325-1422.............................................72 Hollywood Palladium, 310-867-7067 ...........................................72

International Cosmetics & Regulatory Specialists, 310-545-3223.................................72

Eastman Supply Company, 310-386-9288 ...................................72

Easy Reader, 310-372-4611.........................................................72 Eddie V’s Prime Seafood, 310-414-0074 ......................................73

Jack Manjiro, 424-206-1199 ........................................................73 Jen Caskey Group, 310-200-5900 ................................................77

Boys & Girls Clubs of Carson, 310-522-0500 ..............................76

Edward Jones | Audrey Stansbury CFP, Financial Advisor, 310-725-7034.............................................74

Brandon Kirk Photography, 818-419-3800 ...................................72

El Camino College, 310-660-3405 ...............................................73

J.P. Morgan Private Bank, 310-531-5910......................................74

Bread Head, 310-209-8071 .........................................................73

Ellis Riccobono, 424-901-1202 ....................................................75

Just Get Curious, 310-897-9583 ..................................................74

brewco social, 310-798-2744.......................................................73

El Porto Laundry, 424-453-2727 ..................................................72

JWM CPA & Company PC, 310-372-0672.....................................74

Bünda Manhattan Beach, 323-578-0493 .....................................75

El Porto Surf Shop, 310-753-1509 ......................................... 72,77

JWM Racing Inc, 310-372-0672 ...................................................72

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JOL Design, 310-372-0194 ...........................................................72

K Kaminsky Real Estate Group, 310-427-2414 ................................77 KES Mail, 310-970-8041..............................................................72 Kinecta Federal Credit Union, 310-643-2571 ...............................74 Klein Creative Media, 310-990-4120 ...........................................72 KM Skin Studio, 310-702-4393....................................................75

Metlox, 310-486-6629 .................................................................77 Metropolitan Water District, 213-217-5538 ..................................74 Mindful Wellness, 310-220-4543 .................................................76 Monique Powers Beauty Boutique, 310-869-8383 .......................75 Moradi Neufer LLP, 310-905-5254 ...............................................75 Mountain To Sea Physical Therapy, 310-567-2293 .......................76

S Sai Hair Studio, 310-487-7993 ....................................................75 Salon Flourish, 310-809-8194......................................................75 Salt & Timber Group, 310-529-0463 ...................................... 72,75 Saltwater Salon, 310-469-3984 ...................................................75 Salvatores Shoe Repair, 310-545-8891........................................77

Mychal’s Learning Place, 310-297-9333 ......................................76

Sandpipers, 805-801-4560 ..........................................................76

Sand Spa - Downtown MB, 310-755-9084 ...................................75

Law Office of Steven F Carvel, APC, 310-546-4606 ......................76

Natural Pilates, 310-804-6386 .....................................................75

Sand Spa - North MB, 310-921-8231 ..........................................75

Law Offices of Sanford Jossen, 310-546-9118 .............................75

Nawa Thai, 424-237-2180 ............................................................73

Sand Tots Parent Participation Preschool, 310-370-4300 ............74

Leadership Manhattan Beach, 424-218-6079 ..............................76

Neptunian Woman’s Club...............................................................76

Sanuk Headquarters, 310-897-3714 ............................................77

Le Sorelle Salon, 310-545-0743 ..................................................75

Nick & Sons Gourmet Market, 310-921-8722 ..............................73

Lida Sandera - Vista Sotheby’s International Realty, 310-721-3196..............77

North End Caffe, 310-546-4782 ...................................................73

L L.A. Center for Ear, Nose, Throat and Allergy, 909-800-1040........76

Sea View Inn, 310-545-1504........................................................75 Sequel of Life Incorporated, 424-458-8000 .................................76 Set The Table Personal Chef Services, 424-350-5490 ..................73

Lil’ Simmzy’s, 424-277-0283 ........................................................73

North Manhattan Beach Business Improvement District, 310-802-5597 .......................................74

Lisa’s Bon Appetit Events & Catering, 310-784-1070 ...................73

Northrop Grumman .......................................................................76

Shade Manhattan Beach, 310-546-4995 .....................................75

Little French Bakery, 310-504-0245 .............................................73

NY Life Financial Services, 619-576-8887 ....................................74

Shalem Early Childhood Learning Community, 914-224-5882......74

Local Anchor..................................................................................72

Silverado Memory Care - Beach Cities, 310-896-3100 ................74

Local Kitchen Diner, 424-471-0325 .............................................73 Looper Systems, 424-677-5086 ...................................................72 Lori J. Clark, OD, 310-546-4618 ...................................................76 Los Angeles Chargers, 424-277-9957 ..........................................72

OB’s Pub & Grill, 310-546-1542...................................................73 Ocean Fitness, 310-545-9952 ......................................................75 Ocean Skin and Vein Institute, 310-546-7780 ..............................76

Seymour Jewelers, 760-699-1874 ................................................77

Silverado Memory Care - Rolling Hills, 424-488-0593 .................74 Simmzy’s, 310-546-1201 ..............................................................73 Skechers, 424-634-7134 ..............................................................77 Slay Italian Kitchen, 424-257-8301..............................................73

Orange Door Stays, 213-342-1335 ...............................................75

Slay Steak & Fish House, 310-504-0902 .....................................73

Ounce of Salt Jewelry, 310-709-6400 ..........................................77

Sloopy’s, 310-545-1373 ...............................................................73

LoveMB Foundation, 323-366-1123 .............................................76

Smashed Wagyu Pasta, 310-504-0791 ........................................73

P1 Technologies, 310-546-6071...................................................72

Sol Seek Yoga, 310-372-7334......................................................75

{pages} a bookstore, 310-318-0900 ............................................77

Sollis Health, 310 870-0400 ........................................................76

Palmer Chiropractic, 310-802-0100 .............................................76

Soroptimist International of South Bay..........................................76

Love and Salt, 310-545-5252.......................................................73 Love.Life, 310-424-7011 ........................................................ 75,76

Manhattan Academy, 310-374-1804 ............................................74 Manhattan Beach 10K, 323-481-8171.........................................72

South Bay Can Cleaners, 855-623-2267 ......................................72

Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden ..............................................74

Panchos, 310-545-6670 ...............................................................73

Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce, 310-545-5313 ...........74

Paradise Bowls, 310-648-2860 ....................................................73

Manhattan Beach Cleaners, 310-546-9172 .................................72

Patty Brown Physical Therapy, 310-606-5664...............................76

Manhattan Beach Coordinating Council, 310-995-8766 ..............76

PeopleWare Staffing, Inc., 310-640-2406 .....................................72

Manhattan Beach Education Foundation, 310-303-3342 .............76

Pier Escrow, 310-802-2887 ..........................................................77

Manhattan Beach Food & Wine, 310-213-5111 ...........................73

Piper Preschool, 310-844-1800....................................................74

Manhattan Beach Hometown Fair..................................................76

Pisces, 310-545-3980 ..................................................................73

Manhattan Beach Hotel, 310-545-9020 .......................................75

Players Liquor, 310-753-1509 ......................................................77

Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Watch, 310-802-5183...............76

Polish By Sand Spa, 310-796-2457 .............................................75

Manhattan Beach News, 310-850-4344 .......................................72

PS I Love You Foundation, 310-420-4717 ....................................76

Manhattan Beach Orthodontics, 310-372-6600 ...........................76

Puttin’ On Productions (POPs), 310-941-1850 .............................74

Manhattan Beach Toyota, 310-546-4848 .....................................77

Strand Section, 310-504-0139 .....................................................77

Rails, 310-455-6488 ....................................................................77

StudioBinder .................................................................................72

Raising Cane’s, 310-893-5494 .....................................................73

Studio Golf South Bay, 424-677-8267 .........................................72

Ray Joseph, Realtor, 310-545-7295 .............................................77

Style Cleaners, 424-506-8047......................................................72

Regatta Capital Group, 310-725-9102 .........................................74

Sugaring LA, 310-795-9125 .........................................................75

Reliable Plant Service, Inc., 310-798-8770 ..................................75

Sushi Roku Manhattan Beach, 310-683-4060 .............................73

REMAX AEGIS, 310-546-6300 ......................................................77

Svelte Barbershop, 323-645-0990 ...............................................75

Manhattan Beach Unified School District, 310-318-7345 ............74 Manhattan Dermatology, 310-546-1188 ......................................76 Manhattan Plaza, 310-798-0292..................................................77 Manhattan Repro, 310-374-6444 .................................................72 Manhattan Tax and Accounting, 310-546-3800 ............................74 Manhattan Village Senior Villas, 310-546-4062 ...........................77 Manhattan Village Shopping Center, 310-546-5555 ....................77 Mann Legal Team, 310-726-1800 ................................................75 Maricel Rocha Health Extension, 424-282-3033 ..........................76 Mary Kelley’s 23rd Street, 310-740-2267.....................................77 Matt Morris Development, 310-546-4300 ....................................77 MBI Vintage, 310-801-0099 .........................................................77 MB Post, 310-545-5405 ...............................................................73 MB SAFE, 310-863-7708 .............................................................76 mbWINEco, 310-546-9463 ...........................................................73 McDonald’s, 310-643-8200 ..........................................................73 Melody Moore, Ph.D., 214-912-8693............................................76 Mercado Restaurant, 310-545-0388 ............................................73 Mercy Medical Waste, 310-962-7742...........................................76 Merit & Miles | Group Travel & Destination Events, 424-209-2692 ..................72 Merritt & Sanderson Real Estate Group, 310-699-0836...............77

RemodelUp, Inc, 323-719-2204 ...................................................75 RENT ME BEACH, 424-522-8388 ..................................................72

South Bay Cities Council of Governments, 310-371-7222 ............74 South Bay Educational Consultants, Inc., 310-227-3796 .............74 South Bay Friends Foundation, 310-600-2848 .............................76 South Bay Steward, 310-749-3952 ..............................................75 South Bay Workforce Investment Board, 310-970-7700 ...............74 Southern California Gas Company, 800-427-2200 .......................74 South Hills Church.........................................................................74 Spathénée Wellness Center, 424-237-5199 .................................75 Spyder Surf, 310-318-2289 .................................................... 72,77 St. Cross Episcopal Church, 310-376-8989 ..................................74 Strand Hill | Forbes Global Properties, 310-545-0707 ................77

Swipeport, 760-224-5216 ............................................................72 Sylvan Learning of Manhattan Beach-El Segundo & Hermosa Beach, 310-341-3137 .........................................................................74

Residence Inn Los Angeles LAX Manhattan Beach, 310-421-3102.....................................75

Richstone Family Center, 310-970-1921 ......................................76

Tabula Rasa Essentials, 310-318-3385 ........................................77

RJ Smith Co, 310-648-8353 .........................................................75

The 119, 310-880-1220 ...............................................................77

Rock & Brews El Segundo, 424-496-5499 ...................................76

The Academy at Manhattan Beach a Bright Horizons Preschool, 424-453-2041 ............................74

Rock & Brews Redondo Beach, 424-728-4744 ............................76 RockIt Body Pilates, 424-452-6040..............................................75

The Adishian Group, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, 310-536-1670 ..................74

Rock’N Fish, 310-379-9900 .........................................................73

The Arthur J, 310-878-9620 .........................................................73

Rotary Club of Manhattan Beach, 310-374-8365.........................76

The Belamar Hotel, Tapestry Collection by Hilton...........................75

Roundhouse Aquarium Teaching Center, 310-379-8117 ...............72

The Candid Conversation Series, 619-306-3498 ..........................74

Round Willow Yoga, 310-985-1440 ..............................................75

The Comic Bug, 310-372-6704 ....................................................77

RPM Commercial Real Estate, 424-281-3701 ..............................77

The Copy Shop, 310-374-3666.....................................................72

Ryla, 424-247-9881 .....................................................................73

The Dragon And Phoenix Healer, 310-545-6528...........................76

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The Hobin Company, 310-925-2529 .............................................77 the Hook & Plow, 424-304-2100..................................................73 the Hook & Plow Hermosa Beach, 310-937-5909 ........................73 The Innate Group, Inc., 310-213-2703 .........................................77 The Kettle, 310-545-8511 ............................................................73 The Local Yolk, 310-546-4407 ......................................................73 The NOW Massage South Bay, 310-455-6766 ..............................75 The Ryan Law Group, 310-321-4800 ............................................76

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Abby Waddell | COMPASS ....................................... 59 Allstate Insurance K J Arbues ................................... 47 www.allstateagencies.com/kj.arbues

The Slice & Pint, 310-295-0110 ...................................................73 The Strand House, 310-545-7470 ................................................73 The Studio (MDR), 424-675-4382 ................................................75 Thrifty Cleaners, 310-546-5929 ....................................................72 Tin Roof Bistro, 310-939-0900 .....................................................73

Audrey Judson .......................................................... 51 AudreyJudson.com

Beach Babies ........................................................... 69 beachbabies.com

Tommy Cassano, 856-996-5432 ...................................................75 Toothlings Pediatric Dentistry, 310-421-2770...............................76

Jen Caskey Group ....................................................... 1 jencaskeygroup.com

Lida Sandera - Vista Sotheby’s International Realty ................. 61 sothebysrealty.com/eng/associate/180a-4600-4036301/lida-sandera

Lisa’s Bon Appetit Events & Catering ....................... 61 lisasbonappetit.com

Beach Cities Health District...................................... 33

Manhattan Beach Education Foundation .................. 67

Bo Bridges Gallery.................................................... 38

Manhattan Beach Unified School District ................. 66

brewco social ........................................................... 17

Mindful Wellness ...................................................... 33

www.bchd.org

mbef.org

Torrance Memorial Medical Center, 310-325-9110 ......................76 TriNet .............................................................................................72 Trip’s Window Services, 310-363-0781 .........................................72

bobridgesgallery.com

mbusd.org

True Food Kitchen, 310-469-7725 ................................................73 Two Guns Espresso, 310-525-4117 ..............................................73

www.brewcosocial.com

TY Engineering and Design, 310-935-0060...................................72

Chevron .................................................................... 50 chevronelsegundo.com

UCLA Health ..................................................................................76 Umisa Ramen ................................................................................73 Uncle Bill’s Pancake House, 310-545-5177..................................73

visitnorthmanhattanbeach.com

cityofhope.org

rocknfishmb.com

www.citymb.info

Roundhouse Aquarium Teaching Center ................... 21 Colin Aita Real Estate........................Inside Back Cover

Vistamar School, 310-643-7377 ..................................................74

Skechers ..................................................... Back Cover Continental Development Corporation ...................... 47

Sloopy’s .................................................................... 61 Dave Caskey Real Estate Group................................ 63

sloopysbeachcafe.com

caskeyrealestategroup.com

W Waste Management, 818-389-3799 .............................................74

skechers.com

continentaldevelopment.com

Vita Wealth Advisors, 310-921-8736 ............................................74 VR Promotions and Events, 310-993-6453 ...................................72

roundhouseaquarium.org

colinaita.com

Venice Family Clinic .......................................................................76 Village Runner, 310-546-1888 .....................................................77

Rock’N Fish .............................................................. 17

City of Manhattan Beach ............................................ 7

VEFA Gallery, 310-251-2944 ........................................................72 VEG ER for Pets, 818-720-3057 ...................................................76

North Manhattan Beach Business Improvement District .......................................... 19

City of Hope ..................................... Inside Front Cover

Undisputed Fight Academy, 424-390-4442 ..................................72

mindfulwellness.com

South Bay Workforce Investment Board .................... 71 Dive N’ Surf ................................................................ 2

www.sbwib.org

divensurf.com

Water, Inc., 800-322-9283............................................................75 Waterleaf Interiors, 310-546-5400 ...............................................77 Water Replenishment District, 562-272-7255...............................74 Waves Barber Shop & Boutique, 310-491-8896...........................75 West Basin Municipal Water District, 310-217-2411 ....................74 Westdrift Autograph Collection Hotels, 310-546-7511..................75

Downtown MB Business and Professional Association ...........5, 8, 9, 10, 11

X Xenia Stays, 310-906-0325 ..........................................................75

The NOW Massage South Bay .................................... 3 Elite Collective Realty ............................................... 62

thenowmassage.com/south-bay

elitecollectiverealty.com

The Strand House ..................................................... 17 Ely & Smartt Shops .................................................. 45 Ercoles Bar ............................................................... 59 ercoles1101.com

Z Zebrowski Group, 310-678-7158 ..................................................77

www.strandhill.com

DowntownManhattanBeach.com

Withers Dental, 310-546-2002 .....................................................76 Woofie’s of Torrance, 310-213-9298 .............................................76

Strand Hill | Forbes Global Properties ..................... 57

thestrandhousemb.com

Torrance Memorial Medical Center ........................... 35 TorranceMemorial.org

Grunions Sports Bar & Grill...................................... 43

UCLA Health ............................................................. 31

Hermosa Cyclery....................................................... 62

Vistamar School ....................................................... 69

Grunionssportsbarandgrill.com

www.uclahealth.org/SouthBay

ZenBusiness, 512-765-4985 ........................................................72 Zimax Restoration, 310-213-5510 ................................................75 zinc@shade, 310-698-5559 ..........................................................73

hermosacyclery.com

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