On a lazy summer day I was riding my bike to the Oceanfront and looking for a place to have a coffee, read my paper and sit outside in the sunshine. Out of the corner of my eye, I spied two shaggy ...

Thirty years ago — before coffee chains dotted South Bay streets — Rick Hankus took a chance and decided to open Java Man in a decades-old beach cottage in Hermosa Beach. Hankus and his staff at the ...