Your Weekly Wave of Local Delights | Issue 018Know someone who'd enjoy this little corner of Torrance? Forward them today's Tide.Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe here. Hey, neighbor! You can practically smell the pencil dust in the air: it's the first day of school in Torrance! Even if no one in your house packed a backpack this morning, there's something about the first day of school that still feels like a fresh start. New notebooks. Unbroken crayons. Shoes without a single...
8 days ago • 10 min read
Your Weekly Wave of Local Delights | Issue 017Know someone who'd enjoy this little corner of Torrance? Forward them today's Tide.Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe here. Hey, neighbor! Still smiling about what may have been my most Torrance weekend ever. Saturday started with a basketball game at Wilson Park, then a farmers’ market run for my weekly salsa and guac—plus mini pancakes, because apparently you can buy a take-home pack to toss on the skillet later?! Important information....
15 days ago • 9 min read
Your Weekly Wave of Local Delights | Issue 016Know someone who'd enjoy this little corner of Torrance? Forward them today's Tide.Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe here. Hey, neighbor! August always feels like it's holding two seasons at once: we're still squeezing lemons, staying at the beach until sunset, and saying yes to one more scoop of ice cream — even as backpacks find their way into shopping carts and calendars start filling up. I love summer… and I love the school supply...
22 days ago • 9 min read
Your Weekly Wave of Local Delights | Issue 015If The Tide made your week feel a little more connected, forward it to one Torrance friend today. Was this email forwarded to you? You can subscribe here. Hey, neighbor! Remember when summer was just… summer? You’d eat something frozen and probably neon, watch whatever show you were obsessed with, then head outside to see who was around. Maybe there was a sprinkler involved. Maybe bikes. Maybe you just wandered around until someone’s mom called...
29 days ago • 11 min read
Your Weekly Wave of Local Delights | Issue 014If The Tide made your week feel a little more connected, forward it to one Torrance friend today. Was this email forwarded to you? You can subscribe here. Hey, neighbor! Anyone else miss it already? For the past five weeks, soccer was everywhere — on TVs in restaurants, at packed watch parties, in group texts, and on fields full of kids with new players to imitate. Even if you couldn’t explain much of anything happening on the pitch, it was hard...
about 1 month ago • 11 min read
Your Weekly Wave of Local Delights | Issue 013If The Tide made your week feel a little more connected, forward it to one Torrance friend today. Was this email forwarded to you? You can subscribe here. Hey, neighbor! This week, the marine layer deserves an apology. While much of L.A. County sweltered through triple-digit heat, Torrance kept doing its very Torrance thing: afternoons in the low 80s, cool ocean breezes, and mornings gray enough to make you wonder if summer forgot about us. Turns...
about 1 month ago • 9 min read
Your Weekly Wave of Local Delights | Issue 012If The Tide made your week feel a little more connected, forward it to one Torrance friend today. Was this email forwarded to you? You can subscribe here. Hey, neighbor! We may not all be die-hard soccer fans. Some of us still need a replay to understand an offside call. Others of us are mostly here for the snacks. And yes, the U.S. run may be over, but there’s something about the World Cup that’s impossible not to love. For a few weeks, the whole...
about 2 months ago • 13 min read
Your Weekly Wave of Local Delights | Issue 011If The Tide made your week feel a little more connected, forward it to one Torrance friend today. Was this email forwarded to you? You can subscribe here. Hey, neighbor! Good morning from a kitchen that's somehow already collecting watermelon, sunscreen, and tiny American flags. 🇺🇸 You've got burgers to thaw, beach chairs to dust off, and a long weekend to look forward to, so we'll keep this quick... May your barbecue stay smoky, your fireworks be...
about 2 months ago • 11 min read
The June Tide | Issue 010If The Tide made your week feel a little more connected, forward it to one Torrance friend today.Was this email forwarded to you? You can subscribe here. Hey, neighbor! Not everything about the 90s deserves a comeback. But summer? Summer was pretty great. Walking into the library on day one of summer reading and getting a fresh reading log. Riding your bike everywhere—and being told to come home when the streetlights turned on. Picking one movie from Blockbuster and...
2 months ago • 4 min read