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The Independent Hospitality Coalition is extremely disappointed that the County of Los Angeles would take such drastic actions without consultation with members of the hospitality industry. Once...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced today that Apple Inc. will pay $24.6 million to settle a California lawsuit alleging the company failed to disclose that iPhone software it...

November 18, 2020, Los Angeles, CA - Amazon has added another goal in slugging its way to retail dominance; Amazon launched its own online pharmacy to deliver prescription drugs. Amazon, already...

November 13, 2020, Los Angeles, CA – The European Union formally charged Amazon with antitrust violations for abusing its dominance in online shopping and using non-public data gathered from...

Election Day is past and so is the excuse for social media platforms to censor content based on the fear of "election interference." But Twitter censors on. Today, Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire...

Editor's note: It's been a while since we've seen a 2 bedroom Santa Monica condominium listings under a million dollars. So we decided to post this press release from Coldwell banker largely...

Santa Monica Pier is launching a new Pier Prize Card September 28 - November 8, offering guests an opportunity to win prizes for making purchases at participating Pier businesses. For every separate...

A new proposal for a redesigned Miramar Sheraton hotel has been discussed by the Planning Commission. The commission will vote on the 600,000 square foot proposal next month. The project includes 100,...

Covid-19 will be the death of many retail businesses, many but not all of them non-chain restaurants. For the last half century, Enterprise Fish Company has sold salmon, lobbed lobster and hailed...

Los Angeles, Calif. – August 5, 2020 – Today, LAMO Footwear announced its Lamolite® 30-Day Comfort Guarantee policy for customers purchasing styles online at lamofootwear.com and retail...

The hardest working Mom in the business who tirelessly gives to charities is recognized for her labors and delicious treats! Celebrity favorite Dessert Company, Sweets Party Treats has been enjoyed...

Ángela Martínez Gómez died on Monday, July 6, 2020. No cause of death has yet been released. Gomez, 42, worked at local fast food purveyor Burger King on Santa Monica Blvd. Her last shift was on...

In a marriage between 2 delivery and transportation rivals, Postmates announced today that a deal had been reached for Uber to acquire the food delivery service. This in an email sent to Postmates 2,0...

Apple has once again closed the Apple Store on the Third Street Promenade, among other stores. The iPhone purveyor Thursday closed US stores in states where COVID-19 cases numbers are rising amid a...

Update, 6/30/20: Tuesday morning, Payoneer sent the following email: ... "the FCA has completed its audit and lifted the freeze on your Payoneer Prepaid Mastercard® card. We know that this period...

What will happen to the Massive White Elephant buildings nearing completion on Lincoln Blvd? Will young people earning $3000 a week at Google, Snapchat and Facebook line up to lease expensive NYC styl...

For just $3100 a month, you can be the lord and master (or goddess and mistress, as the case may be), of 670 square feet in 90402. To be fair, folks all over the world pay a premium to be close to...

National: Garden Fresh one of the nation's largest restaurant chains operating as Souplantation and Fresh Tomato is liquidating all assets under a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. The chain, which employed thous...

Approximately 120 Santa Monica businesses were looted or broken into, the evening of Saturday, May 28th. This list of 81 looted businesses in Santa Monica is incomplete. After the 1992 Rodney King rio...

Santa Monica is doing better than the county as a whole but worse than the state in unemployment, according to the latest statistics from the California Employment Development Department. The EDD...

LAMO footwear is proud to announce the successful start of the new partnership with HOLLIBLU, an organization which supports the nurse's community nationwide. To get things off to a great start, the...

On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he would conditionally allow the reopening of certain types of businesses in the state. Since March 19, only "essential" businesses have been allowed to...

Larissa Love retail store on Montana Avenue today opened its disinfected doors to a new way of retail just in time for last minute Mother's Day. After almost two months of retail lockdown which has...

Starbucks Coffee Company has begun to re open stores in Santa Monica. Our photographer took photos of a line forming outside the Starbucks store on 7th Street and Montana Avenue. This particular...

The US Small Business Administration has begun to make $2000 advance payments on the $10,000 loans we were encouraged to apply for 30 days ago when the Covid-19 lockdowns began. This has been...