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Santa Monica Unemployment Rate Mega Jumps From Covid-19
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 Takes a Charitable Step for Holliblu Nurses
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...
Officials are Looking at the Wrong Criteria for Reopening Businesses During Coronavirus Pandemic
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 On Montana Avenue Opens To The New Retail Experience.
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 Begins Re-opening Local Stores for Mobile ordering.
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...
SBA Appears to be Making $2000 Payments on Emergency Disaster Relief Loans
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...
Buying or Selling a Home? Expect to Struggle in the Era of Social Distancing and Covid-19
While most of us non-essential employees are staying at home, some people are trying to find a new place for more sitting around, playing video games, and spraying Easy Cheese straight into the mouth...
Paying Rent in the Corona Era: Why bother?
As we all sit at home surrounded by our family 24/7 while searching for excuses to leave the premises for a brief break, many of us are wondering in this city where more than 70 percent of the...
CVS Announces it will Hire 50,000 Drivers, Deliverymen, Counterhelp, Pharmacist Assistants
CVS Health has announced that it will fill 50,000 positions. Demand for CVS Counter services has greatly expanded due to the Coronavirus emergency. There are 3 CVS Health locations in Santa Monica....
DPA HONORS THE OSCAR AWARD NOMINEES AT ITS DAZZLING PRE-AWARDS GIFTING SUITE
Los Angeles, California- February 8h, 2020-For one of the most awaited award seasons of the year, the Oscar Awards, DPA was once again the sponsor for the 2020 Pre-Awards Gifting Suite. This year the...
NMS To Tear Down New Four Story Building at 1547-7th Street, and Build 8 stories
In line with progressive densification, WS Communities, a synonym for NMS Properties, is upscaling your community. The company will tear down a 4 story mixed use building at 1543 7th Street, in order...
Angry Birds Games Go Extinct in March 2020. Angry Birds Rio Crashes, Migrates, Dies
Time to migrate, gamers. According to a note on the App itself, Angry Birds is coming to an end and will no longer be supported. "All good things must pass, and at the end of March we will be winding...
Largest Private Lot in Santa Monica On Sale for $20,000,000. 1.223 acre home could be yours!
It's not exactly affordable housing. If you want the two story 5,000 square foot home on like, 50K square feet of land; it'll only cost you about as much as an F-135 Raptor. The press release from...
The End of Stationary Retail: Staples to Exit Santa Monica February 7, 2020
The Staples store located at 15th and Wilshire Blvd will close permanently on February 7th, an employee of the store told our reporter. “Apparently, corporate was in talks with the landlord to...
Federal Lawsuit Claims Amazon Knowingly Is The Direct Seller Of Counterfeits
A U.S. Federal Court lawsuit, Maglula, Ltd. v. Amazon.com, names global-giant Amazon (AMZN) as the direct seller of its counterfeit products. Maglula's lawsuit alleges they repeatedly warned, then...
Santa Monica Homeopathic Pharmacy Celebrates 75th Anniversary With Ribbon Cutting
SM Homeopathic Pharmacy celebrated its 75th anniversary with a Ribbon Cutting on Tuesday, October 29th 2019. In 1944, Norman and Mary Litvak felt it was "their patriotic duty to serve people by...
Trader Joes Installs Sign at 23rd Street and Wilshire Blvd. for their New Location
Trader Joe's has installed a sign, for their new location they plan to open at 23rd Street and Wilshire Blvd in Santa Monica. This is TJ's second Santa Monica Location, after 31st and Pico Blvd. The...
CVS Pharmacy Will Move Into Building at 5th and Wilshire Blvd in Santa Monica
CVS pharmacy will move into a building at the Southeast corner of 5th Street and Wilshire Blvd in downtown Santa Monica, according to signs posted at the site. The building was previously occupied by...
OneWest Launches Personal Finance Empowered A free digital financial education platform
With student loan and credit card debt rising to record highs and a report from Standard & Poor's finding U.S. ranks an uninspiring 14th in overall financial literacy, the platform comes at a...
Local Starbucks Remodels Seem Aimed at Efficiency More than Comfort. Why is that?
Is Starbucks deliberately remodeling its local coffee bars to make them less friendly to homeless people? Some on social media think so. They have noticed that the doorways to Starbucks new doublewide...
Girls Who Code Holds Graduation at Santa Monica Riot HQ
At the August 2, 2019 graduation the girls presented their final projects, heard from Riot Games' Head of Technology Mike Seavers and commemorated their achievements from the past few weeks. For the...
Doordash To Give Tips Back to Drivers, After NY Times Revealed Company Pockets Tips
As these things often do, it began with the best of intentions. The guys from Stanford who started Doordash, the nations biggest restaurant food delivery app, attended woke classes that explain to...
Lab Tested for Purity: Specialty Curated Vino With Dry Farm Wines
Wine. Like most people, I hated it at first, unable to detect the subtle nuances in flavor. Notes of cherry and a hint of tobacco? More like alcohol forward rotten grape juice, right? But, with some...
Uber Air Taxis Take to the Skies Above Los Angeles, Dallas, Melbourne
Canberra (dpa) - Ride-hailing app Uber said Wednesday it will begin trialling its air taxi service in Australia's second-largest city next year. Melbourne will be third city in the world, after...
Apple Replaces its Iconic Music-focused iTunes Software on its Desktop and Laptop Computers
Los Angeles (dpa) - Technology giant Apple is replacing its iconic music-focused iTunes software on its desktop and laptop computers, the company announced on Monday, along with unveiling a number...
