The 2020 Independent Spirit Awards have launched in Santa Monica and the blue carpet is absolutely dazzling with fantastic fashion moments from the Hollywood creators you love. Jennifer Lopez, Olivia Wilde, Scarlett Johansson, Hunter Schafer, Noah Jupe, Alma Har’el are all giving iconic indie fashion loveliness.

From left, Democratic presidential candidates businessman Tom Steyer speaks as, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg,

Emily Ratajkowski walks the blue carpet at the 2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon (February 8) at the pier in Santa Monica, Calif. The 28-year-old actress and model was at the event to support her husband Sebastian Beat-McClard, who produced the movie Uncut Gems. Uncut Gems is tied for the most nominations with five nods ...

The veteran actor Orson Bean was struck and killed while walking in Venice Friday evening. He was 91. VENICE, CA — Veteran actor Orson Bean was being remembered Saturday, hours after he was struck and killed by vehicles while walking in Venice.

Our City Council can curb short-term rentals of entire houses — as have Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, New Orleans, Atlanta, Denver, Las Vegas, Fort Worth, Kansas City, Fresno, and Oklahoma City (all of which are LESS housing-constrained than Eugene). It needs to immediately enact the responsible ordinance its staff presented in ...

But Saturday, the sprawling Valley Oak witnesses no more. Scorched beyond recovery in the 2018 Woolsey Fire that ravaged the Santa Monica Mountains, the Witness Tree will soon be cut down — a preventive move to keep the lifeless monument from toppling. A funeral of sorts will be held this afternoon to pay tribute to the tree, one of Paramount ...

The report includes photographs of the crash area in the Santa Monica Mountains, including one from a witness near the site and one from a security camera that shows the helicopter flying into clouds. It also includes comments from a witness who was on a mountain bike trail and told investigators he heard the helicopter approaching. He said he ...

The couple had been performing together in a Ruskin Group Theatre production of “Bad Habits,” which just finished its schedule run in Santa Monica last week, the TV station reported. Reaction to his passing flooded social media early Saturday morning. Say a prayer for the legendary, hysterical, beloved Orson Bean tonight. He was my neighbor ...

“If I didn’t have this bump, I’d be in that line for a couple of those dresses, but we need to have a flat tummy!” SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — The 35th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards will have a few things the Oscars won’t. Diverse nominees. Female filmmakers. And J.Lo. Held in a seaside tent on the beach in Santa ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — The 35th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards will have a few things the Oscars won’t. Diverse nominees. Female filmmakers. And J.Lo. Held in a seaside tent on the beach in Santa Monica, California, the day before the Oscars, the preeminent independent film event often diverges greatly in tone from the weekend ...