Keep your fingers crossed!” Indeed, stay tuned to see how the weather — and the flowers — unfold. We’ll be updating this story regularly with wildflower reports for these places as well as Carrizo Plain National Monument in Kern County, Joshua Tree National Park and the Santa Monica Mountains.

Some 300 volunteers split into a few dozen teams spent several hours counting the homeless in Santa Monica as part of the annual Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count. Volunteers and officials crisscrossed each corner of the city into the early morning hours Thursday.

By the time the flying BMX bikes do their thing, it’s exciting and X Games impressive, but also too little, too late.

Today, the platform announced its newest instructor—Gabriela Cámara, the powerhouse chef behind Contramar in Mexico City, Cala in San Francisco, and recently, Onda in Santa Monica. In conversation with Food & Wine, Cámara said she’s excited to be the first Mexican chef to make a MasterClass, and that she loves representing women and ...

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A look at some of the top area basketball games Friday and a look at the Rolling Hills State Preview Classic on Saturday.

SANTA MONICA COLLEGE News-Talk/Triple A KCRW/LOS ANGELES announced TODAY (1/23) ANNE LITT as PD/ Music. She joins a list that has included JASON BENTLEY, NIC HARCOURT, CHRIS DOURIDAS and TOM SCHNABEL, who also had an influence on the station's musical ...

Mr. Ping's Noodle Shop even makes a cameo at this happening, which will run daily through Feb. 9. Santa Monica Place: K-Pop dancers are one energetic aspect to this mall-based bash, which will also include arts, crafts, a balloon artist, and more holiday-fun performances. Be there from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 25. Disney California ...

The retail mix bears little resemblance to such tourist magnets as Santa Monica Place or the Americana at Brand. But right now there is nothing on Honolulu Avenue more surprising than the Revolution Dance Center. On Jan. 26, two of its former students will occupy reserved-for-nominees seating at the Grammys and, two weeks later, a third will be ...

FILE – This Sept. 6, 2012 file photo shows the Amazon logo in Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon has signed a lease for a new office space in Manhattan that will house more than 1,500 employees, less than a year after pulling out of a deal for a larger headquarters in the borough of Queens after politicians and activists objected to nearly $3 ...