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This week, we're a little light on new real estate inventory, but Manhattan Beach does have a new piece of public art to celebrate. 

"Light Gate" is the name of the sculpture now situated right outside City Hall at 1400 Highland.

Artists Mags Harries and Lajos Héder (pictured) designed Light Gate, and attended a ribbon cutting this week. According to the artists, the piece is made of glass laminated with prismatic lighting film that creates "rich and varied light effects with the sun... As you move around the sculpture, it will shift unexpectedly from transparency, to prismatic refraction, to mirror reflection."

Yes, and also, it looks really cool.

Catch it some late afternoon. Or at sunset. Twice a year (Jan. 27 and Nov. 14), the sun will set…

Here's hoping you've enjoyed Ski Week, that (sadly) endangered tradition of our school system here.

If you're back in time, check out some of the new options on the market.

To plan your open-house tours for this week, try this Redfin map list of open houses, or click here for the Beach Reporter list of opens.

Don't forget, when previewing homes here on MB Confidential, you can click "Open All Images" right above the main listing photo to get immediate display of all the listing photos at once.

Sand Section

3300 Ocean Drive (3bd/2ba, 2,000 sq. ft.) is definitely a wow-er of a beach-close TH.

And it's one to watch, because it would really be something to see a nearly $2,200/PSF sale come to fruition. (Tip: Don't bet against it.)

You won't see any hint…

The snow The heat, it's unbearable here in February, 80 degrees on Valentine's Day.

The blizzard Santa Ana winds – ruining our Winter.

It's enough to make you want to go shovel the walk again take a week off and ski.

Yes, the MB schools are off for the next week, and while that sometimes puts a damper on real estate activity, not so this weekend. Take a look at the new options. 

Oh, and enjoy Ski Week. It's our next-to-last here in MB. After 2016, the district is shelving Ski Week in favor of ending school sooner for Summer.

Summer, Winter... How can you tell the difference?

To plan your open-house tours for this week, try this Redfin map list of open houses, or click here for the Beach Reporter list of opens.

Don't forget, when previewing homes…

We have to begin today by saying how proud we are to be part of a Manhattan Beach community that stands together in support of a family which experienced a disturbing crime.

A nearly impromptu candlelight vigil on Friday night drew hundreds of people in a show of solidarity with the Clinton family.

Their home was the target of arson midweek, with the family fearing that the attack could be a hate crime. Local, state and federal authorities are investigating, and have not ruled that out.

Perhaps most important was the way that Manhattan Beach turned out to show the Clinton family that they are welcome and loved, and that there is no tolerance at all for what happened to them. It was an inspiring turn in a story that had seemed so incredible and wrong.…