Gabriela Cámara and Joshua Skenes were nominated for their restaurants in San Francisco. Both also operate restaurants in Los Angeles: Cámara is a partner, with Koslow, in the Santa Monica restaurant Onda; Skenes opened Angler in the Beverly Center last summer and cooks at private $800-per-person dinner parties at his home in the Hollywood Hills.

More than 130 cities have implemented a similar ban, including Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach. San Diego previously voted to ban the use of polystyrene foam products but had to reverse course in the wake of a lawsuit filed by the restaurant industry.

“A handful of minutes later, Kobe and Gianna and seven other beautiful souls ascended into heaven,” Pelinka said, explaining the texts were exchanged just minutes before the Sikorsky S-76 carrying Bryant and the others crashed into the Santa Monica Mountains. “Kobe lived to make other people’s lives better all the way up until his final ...

Want to be on top? You’ll have to shell out the big bucks. Tickets to ModelLand — Tyra Banks’ 21,000 square-foot fashion and beauty theme park located in Santa Monica, California — are available now and range from $59 to $1,495. The multilevel “modeling fantasy” experience (set to open to the public on May 1, after over a decade of ...

There's no word if the Plastics will make an appearance. Fetch was initially announced in Oct. 2019 and was scheduled to open the following month, but licensing issues have forced an April 2020 opening. Fetch opens April 18 and runs through May 31 at 1705 Ocean Ave. in Santa Monica. You can purchase tickets here.

The newest home listed in Pacific Palisades boasts killer views and a $26,000,000 price tag. PACIFIC PALISADES, CA —The newest home listed in Pacific Palisades is also the priciest. Listed at $26,000,

The Verdi Chorus kicks off its 37th season with their Spring Concert, Opera Gets Real, for two performances only at the First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica on April 18 and 19. Led by Founding Artistic Director Anne Marie Ketchum, the Verdi Chorus is the only choral group in Southern California that focuses primarily on the dramatic ...

His experiences of PnP parties reveal that some white gay men are not pretending or playing: They are reaching back generations and repeating. We meet in a Starbucks on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, right in the heart of white gay Los Angeles, barely a mile from Ed Buck’s apartment. The other patrons are mostly older, many in ...

Licensing’s biggest event turns 40, and to reinforce its commitment to bringing brands and products together, Licensing Expo welcomes exhibitors BuzzFeed, Mad Engine, MGM, Minecraft, United Talent Agency,

In cities like Santa Monica and Austin, start-ups such as Bird and Lime didn’t ask local officials for permission before planting fleets of e-scooters, figuring that the shared vehicles would prove enough of a hit that cities would accept them. They generally were, and so by last spring even more e-scooters, in even more towns, appeared with ...