Wed, Jan 2, 2008
Beach Magazine
Portraits of the Beach
Beach magazine presents in depth profiles of prominent El Segundo, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach residents. Recent subjects have included Olympic Gold medal volleyball players Kerry Walsh and Eric Fonoimoana, Laker Luke Walton, Beach Business Bank founder Bob Franko, architect Grant Kirkpatrick, and U.S. surfing champion Mike Purpus
Each month Beach also documents in its photo pages the community events that are the fabric of the beach cities. These include the Sandpipers and American Martyrs Sophisticated Snoops home tours, Taste of the South Bay, Education foundation galas and Men and Women of the year awards dinners in each of the three beach cities, and benefits for such charities as the Richstone Family Center, Relay for Life and the Little Company of Mary and Torrance Memorial medical foundations.
Beach’s community calendar is the definitive guide to upcoming events for the beach cities. Its 40,000 circulation is home delivered to every home in El Segundo, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach and Redondo Beach, where education levels and per capital incomes are among the highest in the United States. Over 40 percent of South Bay People readers possess post graduate degrees and their average home prices exceed $1 million.