Furious Winds, Frigid Temperatures, High Surf Strike SoCal

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Plan for extra time to defrost vehicle windshields." A high wind warning was also in effect Monday morning in both the San Gabriel and Santa Monica mountains and the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys. North winds of 25 to 40 mph were blowing in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys accompanied by gusts of up to 60 mph, while winds of ...
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Critic's Picks: A February To-Do List for Film Buffs in L.A.

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PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN AT THE LAEMMLE ROYAL 11523 Santa Monica Blvd. Opening on Feb. 21 at the Laemmle Royal is a new digital restoration of Albert Lewin's 1951 Technicolor drama Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. Set in 1930 in the fictional Spanish port town of Esperanza, the film follows the romantic travails of a sultry nightclub ...
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Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Has Announced 2020-21 Season

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LACO performs throughout greater Los Angeles at Royce Hall in West L.A., Santa Monica's First Presbyterian, the Alex Theatre in Glendale, and The Huntington in Pasadena-San Marino. LACO's 2020-21 season launches with Music Director Jaime Martín leading the world premiere of a LACO commission by Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Reid, LACO's Creative ...
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The Grammys May Be Over, but the Recording Academy Scandal Isn’t

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The show is over, both sides seem to have spent all of their ammunition, and despite the gravity of Dugan’s claims, no angry mobs have rushed the glass doors at the Recording Academy’s Santa Monica offices. The Academy has slipped back into its default, decades-old crisis mode: Make some blandly forceful statements and wait for the storm to ...
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High winds, frigid temperatures hit Southern California; 80 mph gusts in San Gabriel Mountains

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Plan for extra time to defrost vehicle windshields.” A high wind warning is also in effect Monday morning in both the San Gabriel and Santa Monica mountains and the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys. North winds of 25 to 40 mph were blowing in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys accompanied by gusts of up to 60 mph, while winds of ...
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Commentary: A tale of tragic beauty

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A huge sweep of Southern California is spread out in front of you: from the mountains and headlands of Orange County, past Catalina Island and on to the mountains near Santa Monica. On that day there was an extra thrill: a thousand feet below was a layer of gossamer clouds, orange tinted from the early morning sun. It stretched to the horizon ...
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Newsmakers: LA City Council leaders discuss 'Families First' approach to helping homeless, Kobe Bryant memorial, Barrington Plaza fire

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"I think that's so important. Prevention is the key to solving this issue and this crisis." Volunteers spent several hours counting the homeless in Santa Monica into the early morning hours of Thursday as part of the annual Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count. Plans are underway for a public memorial service for Kobe Bryant. The city, the Lakers ...
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On This Day: Big Three meet in Yalta

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In 1983, singer Karen Carpenter died after battling anorexia nervosa for years. The condition weakened her heart and she died of heart failure. In 1997, a jury in a civil trial in Santa Monica, Calif., found O.J. Simpson liable in the killings of his former wife and her friend and he was ordered to pay a total of $33.5 million to the families.
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