Five months after the 1975 Grammys, Elton John and Diana Ross drove onto the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium stage in a futuristic-looking golf cart to host a ludicrous awards show that has been forever lost to time. Producer-manager-impresario Don Kirshner, who had long since earned his bona fides as the capo of the Brill Building, manager of ...

Esters Wine in Santa Monica has marked down all its bottles 25% and will assemble a “Quarantine Essentials” package including six staff-favorite wines and nibbles. Costa Mesa’s Argaux — an online shop that offers pickups by appointment and temperature-controlled wine storage — compiles a “Quarantine Edition Blind Tasting Kit ...

Democratic senators and gay rights advocates are calling on the federal government to loosen restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, citing the recent blood shortages caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic as a catalyst for change.

Lizzo is doing her best to show hospital workers appreciation for all their hard work and sacrifice during the coronavirus crisis

Nearby Pottery Barn also boarded up. The windows were being boarded up by workers from Board UPS Unlimited, who said they were covering up windows all across Los Angeles County, including stores in Pasadena and Santa Monica. “We have a few more stores to get to,” Chris Taiach said. Other luxury stores in Beverly Hills and famous Rodeo Drive ...

Music is not fixed, it changes. Traditional music has definitely been affected by modern music…like a person, it evolves, develops.” I met Dibango in 1995 when he came to perform on the Santa Monica Pier as part of the Twilight Dance Series. I interviewed him on Café LA and invited him to a party I was hosting that night in my new home.

“I just want to be smart and make a plan for what I might need to do,” she said. “No matter what, you can’t stop a baby from coming, so it’s not like I can wait until the end of the summer to see how things go.” Katharine Gammon is a science writer based in Santa Monica.

“Until the time his sister’s affair with Mr. Bezos was publicly revealed, Mr. Sanchez was instrumental in guarding its confidentiality,“ the complaint said, adding that Sanchez advised his sister to add 15-foot hedges in front of her Santa Monica, California, home in order to keep her interactions with Bezos from public view. In October ...

But nurses at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center on Monday, March 30, had something to smile about during a dark time. Like their counterparts at other hospitals locally and around the nation, they’ve been concerned about running low on such personal protective equipment as masks,

Snap (SNAP) - Get Report on Tuesday launched App Stories, which enables third-party apps to post Stories created in the Snapchat app to their services. Shares of the Santa Monica, Calif., photographic-app maker at last check were up 4.2% to $12.35. App Stories enables developers to leverage Snapchat’s technology and community of 218 million ...