The documentary ‘Honeyland’ captures a story of resilience

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The family members have gathered for a wedding... Nearly a decade ago, John and Molly Chester were evicted from their Santa Monica apartment. They packed up their life and set out to become sustainable farmers a defunct... Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall is a Canadian journalist who traveled to 35 countries over a decade trying every hangover remedy ...
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TrueCar's ALG Forecasts Average New Car Transaction Price to Reach $35,932 up 2.4% Year Over Year for December 2019

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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ALG, a subsidiary of TrueCar, and the industry benchmark for determining the future resale value of a vehicle, projects average transaction prices (ATP) to be up 2.4% or $836 from a year ago and up 0.5% or $174 from November ...
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AP Exclusive: California skeleton ID’d as Japanese internee

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He had been close to graduating from high school when his family was sent to Manzanar. After his father’s death, Masaru Matsumura had to support his mother and three siblings whenthey returned to Santa Monica. He had to take a job as gardener as his father had done. Kazue Matsumura said her mother, widowed at 43, worked two or three jobs ...
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Developer will knock down West LA complex to build 68-unit project

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In filings, Coffee Tree said that it plans to demolish an existing 18-unit apartment complex at 10448-10460 Santa Monica Blvd. in order to pave the way for the new housing. The Coffee Tree entity, which picked up the West L.A. properties for $3.1 million last summer, is managed by Beverly Hills developer Parviz Parvizyar, who is affiliated with ...
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Opinion: Readers see impeachment as motivating Trump’s airstrike in Iraq

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Perhaps it’s not surprising, then, that they do not take the administration at its word now. Andrew Liberman of Santa Monica compares Trump to one of his predecessors: Is Trump initiating a war to distract from impeachment, similar to President Bill Clinton when he ordered an attack on Baghdad in 1998? If the U.S. goes to war with Iran ...
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Spoon & Pork revels in the vivid flavors of Filipino cuisine

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The family members have gathered for a wedding... Nearly a decade ago, John and Molly Chester were evicted from their Santa Monica apartment. They packed up their life and set out to become sustainable farmers a defunct... The star of the documentary “ Honeyland ” is Haditze, a woman living in a remote settlement in the Macedonian mountains.
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Filmmaker’s adventure creates a connection to nature he shares in ‘Biggest Little Farm’

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In the Oscar-shortlisted documentary “The Biggest Little Farm,” filmmaker and farmer John Chester and his wife, Molly, leave Santa Monica to transform a dried-up 200-acre former ranch in Moorpark into a frothy and alive biodiverse working farm, called Apricot Lane Farms. John Chester, who directed, co-wrote and narrated the film ...
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Glendale officials take steps to foster local tech economy

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Glendale might not be considered a tech hotbed on par with San Francisco’s Silicon Valley or Santa Monica’s Silicon Beach, but its tech and startup ecosystems have grown in the last four years, according to Cecila Estolano, chief executive of Estolano Advisors. In 2016, Estalano Advisors was hired by the city to create a road map for the ...
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Blue Man Group takes Segerstrom by storm and more theater in SoCal this week

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The Braid, 2912 Colorado Ave., #102, Santa Monica. Sun., next Sun., 12:30, 4 and 7:30 p.m. $50, $60 each; passes available. (800) 838-3006. jewishwomenstheatre.org Blue Man Group The mysterious trio offers up more musically enhanced shenanigans. Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Segerstrom Hall, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Tue.-Fri.,
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A New Interactive Fitness App Lets Trainers Monitor Your Moves Using Your Smartphone Camera

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Recently, we visited Openfit’s headquarters in Santa Monica and met up with Aaron Forrest, an Openfit trainer. We got to watch as Aaron taught a live workout class. Inside the app people anywhere, anytime, can tune in and take live classes! “Take those knees, rotate that torso to the right then slowly abs tight rotate those knees to the ...
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