Column: California in 2020: Tackling our problems, ignoring the pundits, celebrating our strengths

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Write it down and take me to lunch when it happens. Speaking of lunch, I predict this will be the year the Los Angeles Times corrects a grave oversight and adds Los Tacos, on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, to its list of best restaurants. This is not food you should eat. It’s food you deserve to eat, especially if you just lost ...
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This 2020 Countdown Is Positively Colossal

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Find the largest 60-second countdown around. And, without quibble, dispute, or unwarranted drama, the biggest and sparkliest countdown will shimmer over the Santa Monica surf in the final moments of 2019. For the Pacific Wheel, or rather the 9-story side of the famous solar-powered attraction, will display the numbers as they count down to ...
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Once again, Seahawks find that last yard is a doozy

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He has covered 27 World Series, 19 Wimbledons and many other major events, including the Super Bowl, World Cup soccer, NBA Finals, four major golf tournaments and U.S. Open tennis championships. He graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1966 and UC Berkeley with a B.A. in journalistic studies in 1971.
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20 Of The 2010s’ Very Best Fashion And Beauty Trends

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Not all of them are as cool as the one seen here on Amandla Stenberg, but they’re still pretty cool nonetheless. Kerry Washington at the Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, on Feb. 23, 2013. While mixing prints is an art, it’s luckily an art that can be left to one’s imagination. There are ways to mess this trend ...
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Iskra Lawrence Lists New Jersey Condo, Buys Midcentury L.A. Bungalow

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There’s a large guest bedroom and a charming master suite that looks out on the property’s manicured rose bushes. While not particularly huge, the nearly half-acre lot sits at the base of the Santa Monica foothills and sports terraced gardens that lead up to the grassy hillside. Other amenities include a pool with stone patio surround ...
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Coolest Things To Do In Santa Monica

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While the Santa Monica Pier is famed for marking the end of the legendary East to West American highway Route 66, it also marks the perfect place to start your trip in Santa Monica. The pier has been welcoming travelers to the city of Santa Monica for over 100 years and it’s easy to see why it’s become the cities most iconic landmark.
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Beach Advisory In Effect In Santa Monica, L.A. County

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The beach water use advisory is in effect through Sunday at 7:30 a.m. in Los Angeles County. (File Photo: Shutterstock) SANTA MONICA, CA — A beach water use advisory remains in effect Friday at Los Angeles County beaches. The advisory cautions people to avoid swimming, surfing and playing in ocean water around discharging storm drains ...
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Cast Completed For THE WENDY CHRONICLES: A THREE-PLAY TRIBUTE TO WENDY WASSERSTEIN

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The talented, award-wining cast for The Wendy Chronicles, a three-play tribute to Pulitzer Prize and Tony-Winning feminist playwright Wendy Wasserstein, is now complete and ready to open on January 5 at The Braid in Santa Monica. Zimmerman's tribute to Wasserstein includes Uncommon Women and Others, Isn't It Romantic and the Pulitzer and Tony ...
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USATT Looks Back on Memories of 2019

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Santa Monica College hosted the Pan American Games Trial, won by Nikhil Kumar and Lily Zhang, both booking guaranteed spots on the team for the 2019 Pan American Games. US players head to Budapest, Hungary to compete at the World Championships (Individual). Wu Yue was the last player standing, reaching the last 32 in the Women's Singles event.
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Compass inching closer to 20% market share goal: Reffkin

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“Compass agents have earned close to or exceeded 20 percent market share in some of the most important markets in the country (eg, Manhattan, San Francisco, Marin, Danville, multiple Silicon Valley sub-markets, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Santa Monica, Cambridge, Washington D.C.) and earned 10 percent market share in many more markets, which is ...
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