City Of WeHo Installs Strings Of Colorful Globe Lanterns Across Santa Monica Boulevard

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After positive community feedback of a temporary street lantern installation on Santa Monica Boulevard for 2019 LA Pride in West Hollywood festivities, the City of West Hollywood has installed permanent year-round decorative LED lanterns above Santa Monica Boulevard between N. Robertson Boulevard and Hancock Avenue. The colorful globe lanterns ...
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New Year's Eve Countdown On The Ferris Wheel At Santa Monica Pier

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The Ferris wheel’s 174,000 LED lights project 90-feet tall countdown numbers to ring in 2019. (Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier) Revelers of all ages can count down the New Year – and new decade – in a chill-lax style at the beach and at one of the most iconic sites in Los Angeles, the Pacific Wheel Ferris wheel at Pacific Park on ...
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Best concerts in L.A. this week: The Smell’s anniversary celebration, Califone, Glass Beach

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Gold Diggers, 5632 Santa Monica Blvd. Few L.A. punk acts are as influential as this hardcore staple. Join the Long Beach band in celebrating 40 years of an ever-evolving sound that delves deep into punk’s subgenres, ranging from deathrock to art punk to pop-inflected riffs. Local punk mainstays Smut Peddlers and D.F.L will open. Despite ...
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Rose Bowl 2020: How Donald Duck Became A Mascot For The University Of Oregon

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The Humane Society eventually put the kibosh on using live animals as a mascot. The University of Oregon mascot the Duck, hood ornament holds a rose on a truck at a pep rally at the Santa Monica Pier on Sunday Jan.1, 2012. That year's Rose Bowl matchup was the same as this year: Oregon v. Wisconsin. (Richard Vogel/AP) In the '40s, then-athletic ...
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No More Excuses Not to Exercise

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So, for the new study, which was published recently in Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy, researchers from the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif., decided to look more closely at what we do with our days and, in particular, how we spend our free time. They began by turning to a large database of ...
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Column: California in 2020: Tackling our problems, ignoring the pundits, celebrating our strengths

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Write it down and take me to lunch when it happens. Speaking of lunch, I predict this will be the year the Los Angeles Times corrects a grave oversight and adds Los Tacos, on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, to its list of best restaurants. This is not food you should eat. It’s food you deserve to eat, especially if you just lost ...
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This 2020 Countdown Is Positively Colossal

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Find the largest 60-second countdown around. And, without quibble, dispute, or unwarranted drama, the biggest and sparkliest countdown will shimmer over the Santa Monica surf in the final moments of 2019. For the Pacific Wheel, or rather the 9-story side of the famous solar-powered attraction, will display the numbers as they count down to ...
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Once again, Seahawks find that last yard is a doozy

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He has covered 27 World Series, 19 Wimbledons and many other major events, including the Super Bowl, World Cup soccer, NBA Finals, four major golf tournaments and U.S. Open tennis championships. He graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1966 and UC Berkeley with a B.A. in journalistic studies in 1971.
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20 Of The 2010s’ Very Best Fashion And Beauty Trends

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Not all of them are as cool as the one seen here on Amandla Stenberg, but they’re still pretty cool nonetheless. Kerry Washington at the Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, on Feb. 23, 2013. While mixing prints is an art, it’s luckily an art that can be left to one’s imagination. There are ways to mess this trend ...
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