Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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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 left an uncertain future for many retail stores, Larissa Love's owner has a smile and an optimistic view on this new world of retail. Owner Larissa Love created her own line of organic and unique skin care, hair products, gourmet teas, candles and other gifts, and has over the...
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 Starbucks store has a sign in front indicating that it is currently only taking mobile orders. So don't walk in and expect to look at the pastries and make up your line while standing in line, K? Oh and remember to socially distance while waiting in line. Newsweek.com reports that...
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 confirmed by several posting people on Reddit, and this author personally received $2000 in the interest of disclosure. The $10,000 EIDL payments were approved in the third $2.2 trillion package approved by Congress on April 3, 2020. Wall Street received $500 billion, small businesses...
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 just to feel alive. But few are doing it successfully. Just 10 homes sold in Santa Monica for all of March 2020, according to the research website Property ID. That's a drop of 84 percent from March 2019 when 66 homes sold. That March 2019 number is more in line with the amounts...
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 population are not homeowners and a pro-renters group has dominated local politics for over four decades, "should I pay the landlord?" The short answer is yes, especially since contrary to popular belief, most local landlords are not large conglomerates, and many are equivalent to mom...
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. CVS Health said it plans to immediately fill 50,000 jobs across the U.S. to keep up with a demand for over-the-counter medicines, prescriptions, and other items during the coronavirus outbreak. In a news release, CVS called it "the most ambitious hiring drive in the company's...
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 premiere Media company set out to treat the stars to an array of exciting and cutting edge brands and products at the LUXE Sunset Boulevard Hotel in Brentwood over the Academy Awards Weekend. DPA, a leader in celebrity gifting was founded by Nathalie Dubois- Sissoko, whose vision...
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 to replace it with 8 stories of apartments. The developer is proposing a 100-unit apartment building with 4,441 square feet of ground-floor retail space, according to Urbanize LA. The interesting thing is that they opened this particular building only 15 years ago, in 2005. Well,...
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 down some aspects of Angry Birds Rio including the ingame shop and adverts. The game will also no longer be available in app stores from that date, but we will continue to provide player support for those who have the game installed on their devices until the end of 2020. We want...
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 Coldwell Banker is below. If you're interested, drive by 808 Woodacres Rd. in Santa Monica, the five-bedroom, three-bathroom, 4,726-square-foot home. It's north of San Vicente. Bring your checkbook. Press release: Mary Beth Woods, a Coldwell Banker Global Luxury Property Specialist...
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 negotiate a new deal, but with the new rent they are asking, management decided to walk,” said another employee. “Word is they already pay $80,000 a month rent and the landlord now wants $100k or more,” he added. Santa Monica used to have several retail stationary outlets. Staples...
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 purchased counterfeits of their trademarked and patented products from Amazon as a direct seller through Amazon's platforms. Maglula found that Amazon even sold returned counterfeit Maglula merchandise to third-party liquidation-centers for resale. What is particularly concerning is...
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 providing a pharmacy that would help keep them healthy" despite the World War, explains a publicist. Their store was originally founded as the Santa Monica Drug Company on October 8, 1944 on 7th Street and Broadway. "Norman and Mary pioneered a new kind of pharmacy, with care of the...
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 retailer has been characterized as "notoriously secretive" and has been criticized for a lack of transparency by management about the sources of products such as organic milk. On the other hand, many cheered the new grocery store, which sells largely high end, in demand items....
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 Whole Foods Market, which was a Wild Oats market previous to that incarnation. The building has been vacant for more than 2 years. Brick and mortar retail businesses have suffered in recent years as a result of competition from online retailers. Another problem for local...
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 time when Americans need financial literacy more than ever. The need for financial literacy never being higher, OneWest Bank has just unveiled a free education platform to help Americans build their financial confidence. The bank's "Personal Finance Empowered" platform offers information...
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 last 10 years Riot has tried to expand opportunities in the game industry. This summer that involved working with Girls Who Code to provide 20 local high school students with coding lessons, activities like robotics design and creating their own esports broadcast, and overall...
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 store on 7th and Montana Avenue, features just one entrance. What were they thinking? To better regulate who comes and goes, perhaps? The Starbucks in Ocean Park at Main Street and Hill features plenty of wood seating. The plush chairs that you can sit at all day, have been repla...
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 millenials "Don't tip! It's just a way to enforce the white male aristocratic grip on the economy." A couple years later, and they decide to pool everyone's tips, but guarantee drivers at least $6 for each delivery. Then, an article appears in the New York Times, revealing what was...
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 exploration and experience, I started to be able to understand enough to know that I don't like fruity Cabs, but I do like a really dry Sauvignon Blanc (just like I like my beer). But just like beer, there was always a problem: the inevitable sluggishness the next day. Someone...
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 Dallas and Los Angeles in the US, to trial the Uber Air service that will transport passengers using electric aircraft. The trial flights will begin in 2020 and commercial operations are set to begin in 2023, Uber said in a statement. The Uber aircraft will be accredited by Australia's...
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 privacy updates. During its annual developers' conference Apple said it is breaking up iTunes functions into three apps: Apple Podcasts, Apple Music and Apple TV. The change mirrors how iTunes is already displayed on iPhones and iPads. The update will come with Apple's new operating...
Walbrzych, Poland (dpa) - It was totally unexpected when Piotr Koper, who recently became infamous for his search for a mythical Nazi train laden with gold, found another sort of treasure. During the renovation of a manor house, he discovered a series of centuries-old paintings of Bohemian and German rulers. "Suddenly I was staring an emperor in the face," Koper laughs. The building developer has spent the past 11 years renovating Struga Palace in south-western Poland,...
Rome (dpa) - Italo-American carmaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is proposing a 50-50 merger with France's Renault to create the world's third-largest automotive group behind Volkswagen and Toyota. The combination, accounting for 8.7 million annual sales, would have "a strong market presence in key regions" and a "broad and complementary brand portfolio," FCA said in a Monday statement. In a separate statement, Renault said its board met to examine the "friendly proposal"...
In the US, new-wave taxi companies like Uber and Lyft pay thousands of freelancers to drive for cheap, with many also leasing cars from the companies. The price of a new wave of mobility is being felt by drivers forced to sleep in their own cars to save. (tca/dpa) - It was an advertisement for Lyft that convinced Chris Berry to leave his small town in the US and head to the state of Nashville. He could make a comfortable living driving for the ride-hailing service, the...
