Early last week, Malibu closed its famous pier and all the restaurants that sit along it. The Santa Monica Pier has been shuttered since March 16. All parking lots at state beaches and parks – including nine in L.A. County – have been closed.

It may seem obvious that podcasting is one realm of the entertainment industry that will do just fine in the era of social distancing due to the novel coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19. Frequent listeners can probably rattle off a few shows that regularly record remotely,

Non-medical workers such as food delivery drivers and Amazon warehouse employees feel like they are at increased danger of exposure to coronavirus.

Santa Monica-based Aparavi, a provider of software used for data search and automation, says it has named Matt Carpenter as its Vice President of Platform Success. Aparavi said that Carpenter will head up teams that include solution architecture, support, QA, platform integrations, operations, and partnerships. Carpenter previously had been at ...

The public health order applies to all L.A. County beaches, beach bathrooms, piers, promenades and beach bike paths.

One such example: e-scooter company Bird, which is reducing company headcounts as it braces for financial instability heightened by COVID-19. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based company is laying off about 30 percent of its employees, according to a company memo obtained by TechCrunch. The internal memo reportedly cites Bird CEO Travis VanderZanden ...

Some of Wahoo’s closings were simply due to slow business in Marina del Rey, Santa Monica and at Irvine Spectrum Center. The company also closed an international eatery in Japan. “You hate to close stores, but there’s nobody around,” Lam says. It’s not like the open restaurants are doing well either, Lam admits. Sales run roughly one ...

New York City-based Rent the Runway has five retail stores, in San Francisco and Santa Monica, California, Chicago, New York City and the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C. Store associates were informed of the closings during a Zoom call late last week, per The Verge. The company said on the call that all of its teams would be impacted in ...

Mitchell Englander, who represented parts of the San Fernando Valley on the City Council, agreed to plead guilty to accepting bribes.

"The T.A.M.I. Show" (1964). Save for the Beatles, this revue in Santa Monica, Calif., captured the hot pop flavors of the moment, with the Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, the Supremes, Lesley Gore and arguably the most electrifying performance ever on film by James Brown. The Rolling Stones regretted that they had to follow the Godfather of Soul.