City Stories

City Stories

A new beach view, blasted through the backyard of a Manhattan Beach Home.  (Photo by Gabrielle Sierra)

Mackenzie Street

How the rising waters ravaged my childhood home - and our family history

Growing up in Manhattan Beach was like living in a suburb of Brooklyn. It was tiny, pretty, and safe – until Sandy blew in and changed everything.

By Gabrielle Sierra
Published: November 3, 2012
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City Stories

Unfair Fate

Unfair Fate

One murder, two families, and three decades in search of justice

On November 2, 1981, John Chase Wood Jr. stepped out of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital for the last time into the mild autumn evening, wearing his white doctor’s coat. His life would end that night, but his story goes on.

By Lisa Riordan Seville
Published: November 1, 2012
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