Costume Tournament Passes By A 4-1 Vote Smackfest will be allowed to turn 20. The creative, whacky and harmless fun beach volleyball tournament that has been the summer highlight of the area's weekend amateur players, has been approved by the Hermosa Beach City Council. It was a 4-1 vote and while some restrictions apply – there were fears of it becoming "another 6-man" – … [Read more...]
Miss Long Beach Grand Prix Event At American Junkie Hermosa Beach
Girls To Be Judged In After-5 Dresses And Swimwear In Preliminary Round Miss Grand Prix contestants will be in bikins for the Hermosa Beach prelim. Nice-looking girls are nothing new to American Junkie in Hermosa Beach, CA. But how many of them get the chance to go on to be the next Miss Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach? But on Thursday, March 14, four of them will get … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach City Council Needs To Approve Smackfest
Council Members To Vote On Future Of Popular Beach Volleyball Event Smackfest, the whacky and fun dress-up beach volleyball tournament held each July, is in danger of becoming extinct. The Hermosa Beach City Council is discussing its future in its weekly meeting on Tuesday, March 12. This takes place at the Council's chambers at City Hall on Valley Drive, just south of … [Read more...]
American Junkie Best Addition To Newport Beach Bars Since Sharkeez
What's Been Good For Hermosa Beach Will Be Great For Balboa Peninsula Nightlife I can think of one word to describe American Junkie taking over the space next to Woody's Wharf in Newport Beach's Balboa Peninsula: Finally. Finally, a place is going in that location that has the right idea and will be around for a while. Finally, a place is going in that location that fits … [Read more...]
My Favorite Margarita Party Drinking Experience
After A While There Was No Booze In The Blender, Just Tequila It's National Margarita Day as I write this, and just thinking about that great drink that makes us do wild and crazy things is bringing to mind all kinds of great memories involving it. Perhaps my favorite story involves a house party I ran into on sunny Southern California day. And stumbled (quite … [Read more...]
Stepping Out Of The South Bay Nightlife Bubble Of Hermosa Beach
The Tale Of A Trip Out Of The Beach Cities To Hear Shari Puorto Band At LA's Sagebrush Cantina I love live music and hearing bands, so when the opportunity came up to roll up to LA's famous Sagebrush Cantina to do just that, I jumped at the chance. And jumped in the car with the band leader, Shari "El" Puorto of the Shari Puorto Band. But to do so meant that I had to get … [Read more...]
Holiday Pub Crawls Set The Party Spirit(s) For the Christmas Season
Special Events Make December A Festive Time For Bar Owners Perhaps they should change – or at least adapt – the lyrics of "Let It Snow" for single adults to this: "Oh the weather outside is frightful, "But the bars are so delightful." Because the bars are where a lot of single adults spend the Holiday season. Whether its having a few while shopping, at office parties … [Read more...]
Top Hermosa Beach Nightlife Advice For Single Men
When A Wild Girl Says She 'Wants To Go To the Pier,' Do Not Follow Her To The Pier A funny thing happened to a visiting friend recently. And it's a lesson to be learned about being single in the South Bay Los Angeles Beach Cities of Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach. He's been in the area plenty of times previously – and will eagerly come again and again – but got … [Read more...]
A Tribute To A Fallen South Bay Beach Cities Party Friend
Here's Cheers To A Bar Buddy Who Kept An Entire Area Entertained I don't remember the first time I ever met Joe Anderson – that's a pretty common thing among the single people in the Los Angeles Beach Cities of Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach – but I most definitely remember the first time I partied with him. It was during the Manhattan Open, a local event that is … [Read more...]
Hear The Bar Blogger on Internet Radio
Party Report on Static Beach Radio in Hermosa Beach You read the words, so now hear the voice. I'm on the air, coming to you via the Internet each week on Static Beach Radio – staticbeach.com– a fun Internet radio station based in Hermosa Beach, CA. Once a week, I'm doing the PubClub.com Party Report. It focuses on happenings and my observations on the party and nightlife … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day Parade Hermosa Beach Photos
Images From the Party On the Pier, Plus Video of the Famous Budweiser Hand Truck Team Once upon a time, Hermosa Beach held a St. Patrick's Day parade on the Saturday before St. Paddy's Day. Here are photos of the parade. Its route consisted of Pier Ave., from Valley Ardmore the Pier, then south to 8th Street on Hermosa Ave. There's also a video of The Famous Budweiser … [Read more...]
Sharkeez Party Bus Hermosa to Newport and Long Beach
A Sharkeez-to-Sharkeez Pub Crawl After the Hermosa St. Patrick's Day Parade Every wonder what it's like in those other Sharkeez locations, if any are as popular as the one in Hermosa Beach? Want to check one – or a few of them – out but can't find some friend to stay sober to drive to Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and the Panama Joe's in Long Beach's Belmont … [Read more...]
Hermosa Beach Nightlife Is Not As Party Wild As City Council Claims
There Are Not Too Many Bars On The Pier And Placing Restrictions on Nightlife Is Foolish If you're someone who likes to party, who gets wide-eyed at the prospect of a Spring Break-type atmosphere, and listen to the Hermosa Beach City Council, then you would dream of bolting to the bars on and around the Pier. If you're the parent of, say, someone who's just out of … [Read more...]
Capturing Memories: Halloween Photos at the Portofino Party in Redondo
Packed. Crazy. Fun. The annual Halloween Portofino Party once again delivered big-time to party people in the South Bay Beach Cities of Hermosa, Manhattan and Redondo Beach. The event was put on my Max Entertainment and Berry Bly, which is as much of the culture in these Los Angeles beach cities at volleyball and surfing. The Halloween party is one of the most … [Read more...]
Sunday Concerts: The Ultimate Beach Experience in Hermosa Beach CA
Live Bands on the Pier Are the Draw But the Main Attraction is the Picnic and the People One of the coolest things about living in LA's South Bay Beach Cities are the Summer Concert Series in Hermosa Beach. They take place every Sunday afternoon, ending just after sunset, on the sand just south of the Hermosa Beach Pier. It is a weekend highlight, an outdoor … [Read more...]
Smackfest Hermosa Beach Volleyball Party 2011 Party Scene Images & Photos
Annual Hermosa Beach Costume Volleyball Tournament is, Once Again, A Smashing Success Looking back on one of the many great years of an annual Southern California beach party. When one hears the words "beach party," this probably does not come immediately to mind. One likely imagines some type of college Spring Break scene or, for those fortunate enough to have … [Read more...]
Smackfest Beach Volleyball Party: The Ultimate Fun in Hermosa Beach
Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach Are Full Of Things Like This Party-First Volleyball Tournament If ever there were a fun place to live, it has to be the South Bay Beach Cities of Hermosa and Manhattan Beach, a pair of party places within Los Angeles. For it is here that the young and social go out to bars, fill places for cultural happenings like the weekly Taco … [Read more...]
Discover the Best Beaches & Lakes for 4th of July Celebrations
It's red, white and blue time, and Americans are ready to show their true party colors for the Fourth of July. And the best places to party, according to PubClub.com, are at America's beaches and lakes. That's right. Wet and wild is the way to go this (and every) 4th of July. This is where the fireworks happen all day and night. Lake Travis, Texas. Geist Reservoir … [Read more...]