Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect the FDA's approval Friday of Agile Therapeutics' hormonal contraceptive patch Twirla.  Biotech stocks were quiet in the week ending Feb. 14 amid some

Up and Coming: Proper Hotels Looking for the newest hot properties? This winter, Proper Hotels is expanding its luxurious, design-forward portfolio—which currently includes San Francisco and Santa Monica—into two exciting new locations. The 148-room Downtown Los Angeles Proper Hotel blends past and present in a landmark building with a city ...

Most of my duties at my last job involved driving. Our office was in Santa Monica, and our crematory (where the bodies are actually stored and cremated) was in the Valley, so I would do a lot of driving back and forth to pick up ashes, meeting people for witness cremations (where they actually “witness” the body going into the machine), and ...

I am led into the quaint living room of Honeybear’s rustic Santa Monica bungalow, where she sits by the window, her gimlet eyes scanning the bushes beyond the glass. “Just keep looking,” she whispers—a mottled bloom of calico perched on the edge of a peacock couch. I’m rapt in suspense and more than a little nervous. It isn’t every ...

Couple shoot a pornographic film in a public library in Santa Monica. A local resident says they should 'stick to hotels if they want to do porn'.

The Santa Monica, Calif.-based Gaelic Storm is a Celtic band whose music blends country, bluegrass and rock with a Celtic tinge. With a sound that’s unique and fresher than ever, it’s hard to believe but Gaelic Storm got their first break way back in the 1990s when they appeared in the epic blockbuster “Titanic” as the steerage band, ...

Trump is expected to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport shortly before 3:30 p.m., according to a White House news release. The president will then fly to Santa Monica before eventually making his way to the Montage Beverly Hills. A briefing with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, and with L.A. 2028 Organizers is scheduled to ...

I think that the Dick Best story is emblematic of that. There's a guy who went through hell and ended up spending 18 months in a hospital after the war, but then went on to become the chief of security for the Rand Corp and had obviously a full life here in Santa Monica. There was an opportunity coming out of that war with the economic boom for ...

Still, Cardinale acknowledged there would have been challenges to presenting an insanity defense, including the fact that Bulger spent 16 years outwitting several law enforcement agencies, before he was captured in 2011 in Santa Monica, Calif., where he’d been living quietly with his longtime girlfriend while on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List.

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