One of the most famous San Pedrans out in the world today is 26-year-old Misty Copeland, described by many accounts as the first African American female soloist for the American Ballet Theater. She recently did an interview with Travis Smiley on PBS and talked about her experience performing a sexy pas de deux to the hit "The Beautiful One" with legendary musician…

Video and Text by Jamaal Street

Once the final out was recorded, it was time to rejoice for the small school from San Pedro, California. In its first year competing in the CIF-Los Angeles City Section playoffs, the Port Of Los Angeles High softball team claimed their, and the school's, first City Section title with a 2-0 win over Northridge Academy in the Small Schools Division finals at Birmingham High in Lake Balboa. Wednesday, May 25, 2011 will forever be known as the day the Polar…

The Fourth Annual Croatian Small goals Tournament is coming to San Pedro this Saturday. Croatians from all over the country will compete at Field of Dreams for bragging rights.

The tournament is part of the annual Croatian Independence day celebration which will be celebrated on 9th St. in front of Croatian Hall on Sunday, May 29. Everyone is invited to come and watch some fierce friendly competition and eat some Cevape!

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Have you ever been to a Grunion run? Do you know what a Grunion is? The Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro has been introducing the public to the Grunion since the 1960's.



The next Grunions runs sponsored by the Aquarium are Friday, June 3 at 8pm, Friday, June 17 at 8pm and Saturday, July 16 at 8pm.

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Rap star Nipsey Hussle is scheduled to perform at San Pedro's Levels Lounge on Friday, June 3. Hussle who's real name is Ermias Ashgedon has over 10,000,000 total video views on YouTube.

Hussle has appeared on the 2010 song "We Are the World 25 for Haiti and was chosen as one of XXL Magazine's "Annual Freshman Top Ten."

In March Hussle was present…

MISHI'S STRUDEL BAKERY CAFE PRESENTS THE FLAVORS OF HUNGARY FESTIVAL at the CROATIAN CULTURAL CENTER IN SAN PEDRO



FEATURING:



*The renowned "Karpatok" Folk Dance Ensemble performing

the famous "Bottle Dance" and others!



*The Hungarian Scouts Chorus…

Are you ready for summer in San Pedro??



The Port of Los Angeles has planned a great number of summer events this year to entertain and delight the entire family.

June 4th: Grand Opening of the 30-acre Wiomington Waterfront Park (10am-4pm)

The grand opening celebration will feature entertainment, games, park tours and free lunch. The new park…

San Pedro High softball catcher Taylor Garcia belts the first pitch she sees for a long double to right field, driving home Koral Costa and Trista Chavez to power the host Pirates to a 4-3 win over Granada Hills in this CIF-Los Angeles City Section quarterfinal game from Thursday, May 19, 2011. This was Garcia's second walkoff hit of the 2011 season, and San Pedro's third. Video by Jamaal Street

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Camilla Townsend, President/CEO of the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce during the past five years announced her resignation today effective August 31, 2011.

"I do this with much gratitude to the Board of Directors for recruiting me five years ago to accept this position to facilitate a change in the mission and operations of the…

Kuzma Domancich got emotional and simply said "Its beautiful," when the new sign under the scoreboard at Pirate Stadium was unveiled with his brothers name on it. "Sam Domancich Track"



Domancich, who died in January, was instrumental in getting the all weather track financed and added to the new stadium.



On Saturday, 150 friends and members of the community including granddaughters Haley, Holly and Hanna were on hand for a ceremony naming the track after Domancich.…

How did you hear of the assassination of Osama Bin Laden?



I experienced the news via Twitter!



White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer tweeted just after 9:45 p.m., "POTUS to address the nation tonight at 10:30 PM Eastern Time."



10:30 p.m. on Sunday night? I feared that it could be one of those "there is an astroid headed for Earth" kind of press conferences.



I turned on CNN to hear Wolf…