Could scooter mania just blow over in San Antonio?

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“There has never been anything similar to it for any American city, where you suddenly open your sidewalks to a product.” Electric scooters made their debut in Santa Monica, Calif., in September 2017. They showed up in downtown San Antonio in June 2018. “Lime, Blue Duck and Jump had spoken to us before June, but no one had any set ...
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The Secret History Of Lawn Bowling In Highland Park

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Looking across Wilshire Boulevard from the lawn bowling green in Douglas Park, located at 1155 Chelsea Avenue in Santa Monica. Seen are two restaurants, Casa Escobar (left of center) and The Round Table (right of center), as well as numerous storefronts (left). Designed by Ed Howard and established in the early 1930s, the park was named in ...
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The Future Is Male: Why California Needs More Male Teachers Of Color And More Local News

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All the students in this veteran teacher's classroom in South central LA are black or Latino. Jay Kwan says two days ago he was at a store in Santa Monica that was just following me around, like keeping a close eye on me, seeing if I was going to steal something. McKellar tells the students about a time in college when a classmate made a racist ...
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Power outages aren’t all that new, the Inland Empire experienced them in 1924 too

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But random cutbacks did occur at various times in Southern California. In Santa Monica on June 25, power was shut off for two hours. As the telephone company was one of the customers affected, there was no phone service during that time, said the Los Angeles Times. The area’s transportation system — largely the Pacific Electric Red Cars ...
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Ring out the old year with best songs of 2019

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“Summer Girl,” Haim — Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” (dig those “doo doos” and saxophone) becomes a July breeze blowing through your hair as you stroll through Santa Monica. Reconfirms Haim can exist within pop’s narrow bandwidth and still find fresh, delightful spaces to experiment. Este Haim, from left, Danielle Haim and ...
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Santa Tracker: When St. Nick Arrives In Santa Monica

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You can track St. Nick with the Google Santa Tracker and the NORAD Tracks Santa to see when he will arrive. (Shutterstock) SANTA MONICA, CA — If you need some incentive to get the kiddos tucked in, remind them that Santa has Rudolph's red nose trained on Santa Monica and won't make his scheduled landing if they're still stirring. There are a ...
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You know ‘Flirty Dancing’ from that viral video. The U.S. version comes with a twist

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Laughter, tears, all of it.” Taking a page (or two) from the “La La Land” playbook, the show is filmed in memorable locations in and around Los Angeles, including Grand Park, the Hollywood Bowl, Santa Monica Pier and the Queen Mary. Each location had to accommodate two dances with distinct moods. Sharp’s dates took place at LACMA ...
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Why you're receiving all those privacy update emails

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But there's a big "but" coming. As a California resident, you now have the right to request the data that Hulu collects, either by snail mail ("Attention: Legal Department, Hulu, LLC, 2500 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Santa Monica, CA 90404") or a toll-free phone number. You also have the right to request the deletion of the data, but it's a Catch-22.
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A “God Of War” Developer Has Switched Over To Microsoft

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An interesting bit of developer news as a member of the God Of War development team has joined up with Microsoft’s “The Initiative”. Erik Jakobsen was a part of the Sony Santa Monica team that helped create the 2018 release for God Of War, along with other projects the company oversaw. Not it appears he has gone over to one of the company ...
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