Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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At 32, Ronan Farrow has been near the limelight his entire life. The journalist with a Yale law degree is officially the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow. Farrow's detailed investigative report into the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations drew worldwide attention. Why does it matter? Sinatra was a womanizer, but he also clearly felt that men should protect women. This is present in many of Sinatra's love songs, and it also seems to be a basis of Ronan's thought. Farrow is estranged...
Hello Autumn!!! Here at Edible Skinny we're ready for the Fall Festivities to start! Hello to Kids Back in School, Football Mums, and Starbucks adding Pumpkin to everything on their menu! So with that in mind we've created a list of "Must Have Items for Flinging into Fall"! Below are some recommendations to make you September, October, and November Fall Fantastic! Must Have For Flawless Harvest Makeup - MODA Prismatic Makeup Brushes We all want that flawless skin that looks like it's from a...
Get into the spirit of the season at Heal the Bay's Santa Monica Pier Aquarium with a "fintastic" Halloween and Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration. The Aquarium, located at the beach level of the Santa Monica Pier, has spooky, family-friendly activities planned both days. Visit the glow-in-the-dark deep-sea laboratory, tip toe (if you dare!) through the marine animal artifact lab and create colorful Dia de los Muertos crafts and masks. Face painting and spooky story times are...
Thank Cod for National Seafood Month! Edible Skinny is super excited to be checking out the 3rd Annual OFF THE HOOK Seafood Festival which returns to the Santa Monica Pier on Saturday, October 14, 2017. Presented by Capital One, this year's festival benefits the Surfrider Foundation Los Angeles and is 100% Sustainable! Holy Shrimp! The third annual seafood tasting event (not the new squid on the block...) features chefs from around the Westside showcasing their favorite underwater ingredients....
Judge Beverly Reid O'Connell was appointed Federal Judge in 2013. She died Sunday October 8th, 3 weeks after she mysteriously collapsed while speaking to a California State Bar section. The press release does not state the cause of death. She was just 52, and collapsed at a California State Bar Women's program on Friday September 15. The program was called "So You Want to Be a Judge?" and was co-sponsored by the State Bar and California Women Lawyers. She may have suffered a brain aneurism. On S...
One hundred healthcare workers and allies protested Thursday, Oct. 12 at Providence St. John's Health Center, 2121 Santa Monica Blvd. in Santa Monica, over understaffing at the hospital and a plan that would prohibit workers from publicly airing concerns about patient care. "Our goal is to provide the best patient care but that's hard to do when we're short staffed and unable to respond to patients' calls for help," said Linda Phongsvej, a Respiratory Therapist at St. John's Health Center....
1/12: The body of a woman washed ashore on Venice Beach Thursday morning. She was identified Friday as Yvette Mills, 48. Police said the body, which was still clothed, did not exhibit any obvious signs of violence or trauma and had not been attacked by marine life. A jogger spotted her body and alerted authorities around 6:30 a.m. The discovery was on the beach near Market Street. Coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter said an autopsy was pending to determine her cause of death...
The mainstream media has called Dr. Andrew Wakefield, subject of the recently released "The Pathological Optimist," the "father of the anti-vaccine movement." Dr. Wakefield, who currently resides with his family in Austin, Texas, has been on the road promoting the new documentary film, "The Pathological Optimist," which is a much more fitting description of the former academic gastroenterologist. According to Dr. Wakefield, he is not part of an anti-vaccine movement, but more, as he says,...
Wednesday the 3rd of October witnessed perhaps the most awaited of all re-openings of any mall in the US in recent times. High end shopping complex, Australian giant shopping brand, Westfield's unveiled their newly renovated complex in Century City. And boy did they put on a show. The evening's festivities started with a Mayoral press conference in the complex itself with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti along with Westfield's co-owners Australian businessmen, Peter and Steven Lowy. Mr. Garcetti...
The Los Angeles County coroner's department is investigating the death of singer Tom Petty, reports the Associated Press. Department spokesman Ed Winter says an autopsy was conducted Tuesday but that further examination is needed to determine the exact cause of death. Petty was 66 years old when he died Monday at Santa Monica UCLA hospital. A spokeswoman said he went into cardiac arrest at his Malibu home, and was rushed to Santa Monica where he died. While a crime is not suspected, Winter says...
The Santa Monica Airport Runway shortening project has been halted by a TRO issued by Federal Court. The 100 year old airport is not popular among its neighbors, who say they did not signup for the amount of private planes that take off and land amid the unbelievably overpriced real estate. But the airport has its defenders too. Thus wrote the Santa Monica Airport Association, on its website: "Santa Monica City Council's shameful backroom deal to shorten the runway at the Santa Monica Municipal...
Jason Aldean told the whole world he and they need not back down in the face of inscrutable evil. Appearing on Saturday Night Live, the country music performer sang Tom Petty's hit song about defiance and courage. He preceded this with a brief but brave monologue on the importance of facing evil. Petty died this week also, of cardiac arrest after a brief hospitalization. He died on October 2, the day after the shooting, at age 66. Aldean cancelled several appearances following the October 1 shoo...
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Missing Person's Detail investigators have learned that Sook J. Velasco was found. Ms. Velasco had been reported missing Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 11:20 A.M., in the city of Lakewood. The missing person was found Sunday, October 15, 2017, later in the day, at a local hospital. Her family has been notified and will be reunited with them. Originally, Detectives asked for the public's assistance in locating Sook J. Velasco, a 71 year-old Asian female who...
A traffic collision on PCH near Entrada killed a man on a bicycle Sunday, Santa Monica police reported. The unidentified man died at the scene. The driver initially fled, then returned. It was night time and dark when the unidentified driver hit the cyclist from behind. He was alive when police arrived, but died soon afterwards. "At this point, we will not be releasing the name of the deceased or the driver of the vehicle. The deceased bicyclist is an Asian Male in his mid-20s. The driver is...
Doctor Jeffrey Nordella shared the results of his toxic health study to a packed audience of North Valley residents in the Woodland Hills Hilton last Saturday, Oct. 14th The meeting was hosted by the local 501(c)(3) non profit group, Save Porter Ranch, and the environmental organization, Food and Water Watch. It is apparent that the doctor really cares about the people and the science. Months ago, at a press conference, he said, "I will not deviate from the people. We all know about the...
Santa Monica, October 18th, 2017- momo Los Angeles is having both their third anniversary and launch party on Saturday, October 21, 2017 6-9pm. After an engineering degree, years of traveling and working abroad, momo Los Angeles owner, Carole Yu, three years ago launched a licensee store in her existing space for a single Canadian brand. Her store won Santa Monica's Most Loved Business on Montana Avenue for 2016 and 2017. Having a great dialogue with her customers, they suggested that she bring...
She is all over Youtube right now, this officious but mischievious looking gal in a Goldilocks outfit, cheerfully smashing eggs onto mattresses. Her name is Mallory Everton, and she is a career actress and writer, best known for Studio C (2012), The Best of Studio C (2013) and Studio C: Best of Season 2 (2013). And she is grabbing attention like no other pitchwoman has since the Progressive Insurance lady, portrayed by Stephanie Courtney. The Youtube commercials for https://onpurple.com/ are...
You haven't been imagining it. There has been a crop of poke places popping up recently. And what is poke (pronounced "POE-kay"), exactly? Hailing from Hawaii, poke in Los Angeles is a sushi bowl that you order step-by-step in the vein of Chipotle. Angelenos already familiar with chirashi can think of poke as the casual, fast food version that's still healthy. For those of you who have been meaning to venture into one these trendy destinations, we recommend Poke Me, a friendly, family-run chain...
