It was a strange night in the South Bay. First, I was turned away from Izakaya Hachi in Torrance, where despite there being some empty seats, the hostess told me there were “four groups waiting” for ...

Often we go to a restaurant because we’re – forgive me for being obvious – hungry. But other times, many times in fact, we go out because we’re also in need of human company. We feel the species-wide ...

The Gardena baseball team has learned to find its way there, but hasn’t discovered what to do once it gets there. Gardena made its third appearance in a tournament final in two years, and was looking ...