Glendale Community College women’s basketball receives conference honors

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Glendale’s lone conference loss was on the road to L.A. Valley, 65-40. Glendale closed out conference play winning five straight and clinched its second consecutive title on a game-winning three-pointer from Rouse in a 51-48 win over Santa Monica on Feb. 19. “Coaching awards are a product of team success,” said Weiss, who was also named ...
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L.A. County In Coronavirus 'Surge' Mode As 7 More Die

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Most of the county's individual coastal cities had already closed off beaches, parking lots and pathways over the last week, and the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area closed of all its facilities on March 22. City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report.
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Promising yet precarious: The state of podcasting amid the pandemic

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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,
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Aparavi Names VP

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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 ...
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Scooter company Bird to lay off 30 percent of staff amid COVID-19 uncertainties, report says

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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 ...
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Coronavirus closures: Wahoo’s Fish Taco shuts 12 of 49 locations

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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 ...
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