We asked local businesses to update their status amid the coronavirus pandemic and created a handy guide from their responses.

To cook the meal, they get to descend upon the famed Santa Monica Farmers Market to shop for ingredients. I actually live six blocks from the market, which is open every Wednesday and Saturday. It’s the real deal. You can regularly see the best chefs in LA wandering among some of the best produce you’ll find in America. I was once there ...

Some drivers said the increase in speed has been noticeable. “I’ll be doing 70 in the #3 lane and there will be cars going 80 in the #1 lane, often weaving around slower cars,” wrote Ron Gee, 60, of Santa Monica, in a Twitter reply on Tuesday, April 7. “I’ve been commuting from Santa Monica to Long Beach to bring food to my mom once a ...

Current circumstances have forced many to consider whether there must be a choice between budgets and well-being. “It’s expensive to clean every stand, sandbag and lens and that all takes time,” said the Santa Monica-based Karman. “The way we work, I get overtime after eight hours and double-time after 12. We work 12 to 14 hours a day.

"Many cases come and go without any symptoms, so no recovery is needed," David Cutler, MD, a family medicine physician at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, CA, told POPSUGAR. However, you could still be contagious — so, if you believe you've been exposed to COVID-19, you should quarantine for at least 14 days. "If your ...

The Los Angeles native, 36, wore a long-sleeved magenta sweater by Adidas with black pants and a black ball cap.

But it also offers one element every LA denizen can relate to in this period of stay-at-home orders: Empty city streets, stretching from Santa Monica to San Dimas to Lancaster to Lakewood. In Comet, the urban desolation springs from an entirely different type of cataclysm: The eponymous cosmic snowball, which, upon entering our atmosphere ...

The county has 10 million residents and includes the city of L.A., as well as major cities like Long Beach, Pasadena and Santa Monica. Ferrer also described new requirements for all essential businesses that remain open, mainly grocery stores but also those businesses that have been found to provide essential services. Starting April 15 at ...

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Full-time RVers and van-lifers, for whom social distancing is a way of life, race to find a safe spot to hunker down. On a Wednesday in mid-March, Mark Koep left Mesa, Arizona after breakfast, aiming to make it to Santa Monica in time for a dinner meeting. By the time he hit the Los Angeles suburbs, he knew something was very wrong.