To address this, the Santa Monica City Council will consider an ordinance Tuesday, August 28 that would levy a $.98 per device per day fee on scooter companies. “The public right of way land is a valuable asset, designed primarily for the movement of ...

“Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink,” wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the 1834 poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Coleridge was not writing about Santa Monica in this poem but he may as well have been. Santa Monica, like all of ...

As Food Editor Jenn Harris reports in her weekly Restaurant News column, there’s also a new ramen shop in Chinatown that specializes in tsukemen; a new counter-service restaurant in Santa Monica from chef Vicki Fan Matsusaka; and a new restaurant in Echo ...

“Fortunately they reversed it quickly enough before more damage could be done,” said Ross Gerber of Santa Monica investment firm Gerber Kawasaki, which holds Tesla stock. A big fan of both Tesla and Musk, Gerber nonetheless thought going private was a ...

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Don Schultz, an 81-year-old Van Nuys resident, said he and his wife, Prudy, used to drive to Santa Monica on boiling-hot San Fernando Valley days. Traffic was light, parking was easy and a walk on the beach was pure air-conditioned pleasure. “Now we can ...

This evening at the Santa Monica Pier, residents will be able to hear both sides of the desalination debate at PRO/CON, a regular debate series hosted by ProCon.org and the Santa Monica Pier. Photo: Getty Images. Desalination debate tonight at Santa Monica ...

Ross Gerber, president of the investment-management firm Gerber Kawasaki Inc. in Santa Monica, which is a Tesla investor, acknowledged that there is a “huge gap in perception” among investors about the outlook for Palo Alto-based Tesla going private.

I remember the beauty of the land. The beautiful homes and greenery of San Diego. My favorites were Santa Monica, where I shopped at a huge record store and ate double baked oysters covered in cheese. Also Santa Barbara, where I bought the most delicious ...

Curbed Los Angeles It eats everything: This tiny lobster might look cute, but he is causing havoc on the Santa Monica Mountains ecosystem. LAist Plus and minus: A Times analysis shows a surge in “Netflix Original”-branded titles in the U.S. over the ...