South Florida e-scooter startup backed by Usain Bolt secures $30M investment

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Bolt Mobility, a Miami Beach-based electric scooter rental startup, has secured a $30 million in Series A funding. The deal comes as e-scooters expand rapidly in major metropolitan areas — including in South Florida — as a viable transportation option to avoid gridlocked roads.
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This actress’s career fizzled, but her Hollywood house endured. See the $15 million beauty

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Originally built in the 1930s, the Sten-Frenke residence sits on a double lot of lush plants in Santa Monica overlooking the ocean. The history of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 647, as the house is known, traces back to forgotten Ukrainian actress Anna Sten, daughter of a Cossack-actor father and a Swedish-ballerina mother.
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As Prager takes Disney Hall stage, music drowns out controversy with Santa Monica Symphony

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The news that conservative commentator Dennis Prager would conduct the Santa Monica Symphony was met with dissent from some of the symphony’s volunteer musicians. But at least for the duration of the Aug. 16 performance at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the sounds of classical music drowned out any controversy that preceded the show.
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Ben Affleck plays the role of dapper dad in a fitted shirt while running errands in Santa Monica

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He was recently spotted filming scenes of Ridley Scott's The Last Duel in France. And Ben Affleck was back in the routine of everyday life while making his way around Santa Monica on Monday morning. The 47-year-old actor sported a fitted shirt and slacks as he ran a few errands around town after a busy weekend promoting his latest flick ...
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God of War is only £10 for PS Plus members in the latest PSN sale

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Of everything, God of War for just £9.59 is easily the most tantalising bargain there. Santa Monica's accomplished reimaging of Kratos' rage-fuelled shenanigans is slick, vast and wonderfully made. That's mostly thanks to the endless joy of lobbing the Leviathan Axe at something's face over and over and over again. Perhaps, one day ...
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Recording Academy’s Harvey Mason Jr. calls clash with ousted CEO a ‘setback’: ‘We’re focused on the future’

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Veteran musician and record producer Harvey Mason Jr. was seated Monday in the Santa Monica office he uses as chairman of the Recording Academy’s board of trustees and, for the last seven weeks, as the Grammy Awards organization’s interim president and CEO. In his first interview since placing Dugan on leave in mid-January, Mason downplayed ...
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LA County artist-activist plans to distribute 5,000 vibrant-color tents to homeless population

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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- The colors are bright, vibrant and designed to attract attention - they adorn tents for the homeless, and soon thousands of the tents could be on the streets of Los Angeles. "The design is awesome -- easy to set up and easy to take down," said Santa Monica resident Greg Siders, who himself was once homeless.
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