“It’s like Willy Wonka or PeeWee’s Playhouse,” he said. “It’s fun, magical and childlike.” He’s part of a team of actors working at the nonprofit Arts Alliance for Humanity at the Santa Monica Playhouse. Together, the actors are developing the pilot, and also offering acting classes to community members. A number of Yale alumni ...

The Lakers’ 139-107 Martin Luther King Jr. Day loss to the Celtics notwithstanding, the James-Davis pairing has gone as heavenly as views from Santa Monica Pier. Frank Vogel’s club enters the Garden with a 34-9 record — best in the West. When the Knicks faced the Lakers at Staples Center on Jan. 7, it was reported Davis turned down the ...

We built the shopping center here [Santa Monica Place, which opened in 1980 and was demolished and rebuilt in 2010], and the president of the Rouse Company came to see me at my chain-link house and he said, “Frank, do you like this? You must, since you built it for yourself. Then you can’t possibly like the things you did for us.”

The Proper team, which has properties in San Francisco, Santa Monica and Austin, will launch Hotel June, a more affordable sister brand, in the former Custom Hotel near LAX International Airport. The iconic 1960s building was originally designed by Welton Becket, whose firm was also responsible for L.A. landmarks like the Capitol Records ...

A shooting outside the Westfield Century City mall Monday night resulted in a large police response and all eastbound Santa Monica Boulevard being shut down at Century Park West, authorities said. One man was shot outside the mall and was in critical condition, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Police tape was visible outside Rock ...

But the couple is covering up as they return to the (mildly) nippy weather of Los Angeles. Geary donned a black western chic leather jacket Friday as they stepped out for dinner in Santa Monica. The 25-year-old completed the look with a pair of skintight black jeans and some knee-high white leather go-go boots. Thicke, 42, cut a cool look in ...

Directed by Aric Martin with a real appreciation of McNally's wit and a keen sense of how to keep the actors moving at a pace that perfectly reflects their intense emotional turmoil, IT'S ONLY A PLAY now onstage at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre in Santa Monica takes us inside the master bedroom suite of producer Julia Budder's luxurious Manhattan ...

Francesca Lia Block is gazing at the old-time Santa Monica Pier carousel, looking genuinely forlorn. “Is Esmeralda still here?” she asks an employee doing maintenance work on this early Thursday morning near the tawny and grey-colored ponies, now anchored in stillness on golden poles. “No, she’s been gone for a few years,” he replies ...

In truth, The Goop Lab is less like a lab and more like “The goop Lab,” a 1,300-square-foot, immaculately decorated bungalow tucked into the Brentwood Country Mart in Santa Monica, where the company hawks products like “Moon Juice’s Beauty Dust” and $80 linen hand towels. That is to say: an exorbitantly-priced store. Or more precisely ...

One of the largest pediatric orthopaedic fracture centers in the nation has opened at Orthopaedic Institute for Children in downtown Los Angeles.