The University of Southern California has purchased an $8.6-million home in Santa Monica for its president, a transaction that closed just before the onset of a global pandemic that has resulted in austerity cuts announced Friday at the private university. Carol Folt, who took over as president last summer, bucked the four-decade trend of USC ...

The University of Southern California has purchased an $8.6-million home in Santa Monica for its president, a transaction that closed just before the onset of a global pandemic that has resulted in austerity cuts announced Friday at the private university. Carol Folt, who took over as president last summer, bucked the four-decade trend of USC ...

SANTA MONICA, CA — Videos captured by a reporter at the Santa Monica farmers market Wednesday showed packed crowds and a lack of social distancing as residents went to buy fresh groceries amid the new coronavirus pandemic. The City of Santa Monica told Fox Los Angeles that the market would remain open during stay-at-home orders due to the ...

Lyft points out that its bicycles and scooters are an alternative option that makes it possible to avoid close contact with other people. Starting today in San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, the Metro DC area, Denver, and Austin, Lyft is giving some critical workers free 30-minute rides on its scooters. This joins the free bike-share program ...

Most people don’t know him by name, but Dave Hampton is one of the music industry’s top-flight audio engineers and worked closely with Bill Withers, who died on Monday (March 30) at the age of 81.

He said he’s stopped playing altogether at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica because it’s so deserted, electing instead to dedicate himself to his familiar haunt in Glendale, where he’s been a fixture since 1998. It’s also a city where, as of Friday afternoon, there were 103 confirmed coronavirus cases. “There’s not as many ...

Having a specific temperature is just one of the indications that you have a fever. Other signs of a fever are chills, sweats, flushed skin and body aches. The chairman of the Santa Monica Family Physicians medical group, David Cutler, MD, told Insider that “Feeling like you have fever is a pretty accurate way of knowing. If you feel hot or ...

Our critic virtually joins Zubin Mehta conducting "Nessun Dorma," Gustavo Dudamel chatting and Jeffrey Kehane delivering an eloquent "America the Beautiful."

In a time of uncertainty and precaution, social norms have been rewritten with the new normal of physical distancing and staying home. The spread of these new norms can be explained by two primary forces: the social approval of positive behavior and the social disapproval of negative behavior.

Presented by the Trust for the National Mall and the National Cherry Blossom Festival, along with the National Parks Service, Bloom Cam is exactly what’s needed during this solemn time and serves as a way to transport viewers virtually to the city’s lush forest of 3,