Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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"Talent, enthusiasm and commitment, not circumstance, decide who has the extraordinary opportunity to receive ballet training from Westside Ballet." Los Angeles, California. (September 23, 2026) - California Dance Institute (CDI) and Westside Ballet of Santa Monica today announced the official launch of the Pathways Partnership, a structured collaboration that carries a child from a first dance class in their own elementary school classroom to full scholarship training at...
The Starbucks on Santa Monica’s Main Street will close permanently on Saturday, ending another chapter in the coffee chain’s uneasy presence along the Ocean Park commercial strip. The shop never offered what customers once expected from the brand: no tables, no couches, and no restroom. It's about, you know, managing the homeless. Store manager Christine said the company had reached the end of the experiment. “We have made the difficult decision to close this location perma...
SANTA MONICA - An 82-year-old woman remained in critical condition Friday after she was struck by a turning vehicle Thursday evening in a marked crosswalk at 5th Street and Wilshire Boulevard, police said. The collision happened about 5:47 p.m. Thursday. According to a preliminary Santa Monica Police Department account, the woman was walking southbound in the marked crosswalk on the east side of the intersection when a vehicle making a left turn from southbound 5th Street...
LOS ANGELES - Flea-borne typhus is no longer a rare footnote in Los Angeles County. Public health officials have recorded a multi-year climb in cases, a record 220 infections in 2025, and 109 cases so far in 2026, including two localized outbreaks this year. The latest cluster, announced Sept. 22, involved seven symptomatic cases in the Wilshire Center neighborhood. Six people were hospitalized. All recovered. It was the county's second outbreak of the year after a five-case...
AIFascinated (@aifascinated ) is a popular Instagram account making short, glossy AI videos in a very specific vibe: 1950s pin-up women dropped into Atomic Age "future of the past" scenarios. Chrome kitchens, hover-bikes that fold into suitcases, food enlargers, shrinking machines, hidden portals, jetpacks, pastel suburbs that suddenly become spaceports. The captions read like little pulp-magazine stories, and the look is high-gloss mid-century magazine illustration come to...
