It will remain at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel through 2024. AFM is one of the independent film industry’s key sales markets along with the European Film Market at the Berlin Film Festival in February, the Cannes Film Festival in May and the Toronto Intl. Film Festival in September. “While the film industry has changed drastically ...

While these two fine athletes have cemented their place on the US team for Tokyo, there are still 2 remaining positions on offer, and both will be decided at the end of this month at the US Olympic Trials at Santa Monica College, California. You can enter, or get tickets to watch the February 27 - March 1 event HERE. USATT CEO Virginia Sung ...

Snap turned things around in 2019, ultimately adding 31 million daily active users over the course of the year.

Affordable housing begins at the local level I want to alert residents to the preliminary plans of the Shapell Properties of Santa Monica for a 26-unit apartment development near Rancho Conejo and Newbury Park on Corporate Center Drive. Check out this story on vcstar.com: https://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/readers/2020/02/05/affordable ...

KEVIN HART WALKS OUT of the darkness. Sunlight won’t spill over the Santa Monica Mountains for an hour, but the actor offers a quick handshake and throws a leg over his Airdyne, dutifully churning his arms and legs as his friend and longtime personal trainer, Ron “Boss” Everline, warms up to his left on a treadmill. Hart, 40, is wearing a ...

Their Weimar-on-the-Pacific, where they congregated on Sundays to celebrate their collective escape, mourn their loss of homeland and identity, and enjoy — in German and English — the pleasure of each others’ company (not to mention the strudel and chocolate torte), was 165 North Mabery in Santa Monica. Their hostess was Viertel ...

Step forward Sam Bencheghib, who has just completed that feat. He ran from Battery Park in New York to Santa Monica, to raise awareness about the harm plastic pollution is inflicting on our world’s oceans. He even wore running shoes made from upcycled plastic. His journey ended on 1 February 2020, when he was accompanied by a group of 70 ...

Roni Ginach, the founder of Roni Selects and a former wine director of Michael's restaurant in Santa Monica, makes her living importing and distributing "natural wines" and even she says the term is "murky." "To me, it has to do with an overarching, holistic grape-growing and winemaking philosophy, starting from creating or helping to preserve ...

A wind advisory will be in effect until 9 a.m. Wednesday in the Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area, the Santa Ana Mountains of Orange County and the county's inland areas, and until 3 p.m. Tuesday in the San Fernando Valley. Winds of 25-35-mph with gusts of 50 mph are expected in the Santa Monicas amid early morning temperatures as low as ...

Eichler said. “The market dynamics in Downtown L.A. and Santa Monica, only 10 miles apart, are just as disparate as those fundamentals between Downtown L.A. and Seattle and New York.” L.A.’s idiosyncrasies give locally based firms an edge over national firms, and the latter often partner with local outfits to tap into that market knowledge.