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...
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...
Modern womanhood is sold as an upgrade. Better products, better language, better lighting. The work itself is less advertised. What follows is not a manifesto. It is a field guide to the problems that arrived with the century and the older ones that simply learned new branding. The quiet-luxury hangover For a few years the uniform was obvious: cream coats, quiet handbags, the performance of not needing to perform. Then the look leaked into every feed and lost the thing that...
A reclusive Chinese video-game billionaire has built one of the most extreme family operations on record - using American surrogates to produce U.S.-citizen children who are then raised by nannies on two continents. Xu Bo, founder of Guangzhou gaming firm Duoyi Network, is the man at the center of the story. A December 2025 Wall Street Journal investigation and a fresh CBS News report this month laid out the scale: Xu's company has acknowledged "a little over 100" children...
Sydney Sweeney posted a new carousel of images to her Instagram account on Sunday, September 13, 2026, featuring outtakes from her recent advertising campaign for the sports trading app Novig. The post was captioned "it's gamedayyy @novig #novigpartner." Downside of 2026 is that Artificial General Intelligence will likely kill all of us. The upside is, we did get to see Sydney Sweeney's butt. The photographs show the 28-year-old actress nude or topless, using sports equipment...
Sofia Tsarsitalidou remains one of the most watched young long jumpers in Greece, but the 2026 World U20 Championships came and went without her in the pit. The 19-year-old from Ptolemaida, born 17 August 2007 and competing for Aiolos Ptolemaidas, still has a personal best of 6.25 metres from the Alexandrinó meeting in Alexandria, Imathia, on 24 May. That jump remains her listed World Athletics best and was the mark that first put her over the World U20 qualifying standard....
At 930 Montana Ave, the latest outpost of the Venice-born smash-burger favorite opened with the kind of energy that turns a sidewalk into a social event. The line snakes out the door most days. It is the living punchline to Yogi Berra's old line: nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded. People go anyway. They wait. Then they eat. Then they talk about coming back. This is the seventh-ish Southern California location, and the prices travel with the brand. A cheeseburger...
Women's pole vault has long combined extreme athleticism with a visual spectacle that cameras love. Over two decades, a handful of vaulters have drawn extra attention for how they look in photos and videos as well as how high they clear the bar. The most durable example is Allison Stokke. Others-Yelena Isinbayeva, Clara Fernández, Alysha Newman, Molly Caudery, and Polina Knoroz-have also become household names among fans who follow the event for both performance and...
In an incredibly salacious story as old as the internet, influencer Tia Billinger, known as Bonnie Blue, announced first child after C-section at London's Lindo Wing over the weekend. She did not name the father but teased that she might later. Influencer Bonnie Blue, whose real name is Tia Emma Billinger, has announced the birth of her first child. She said the delivery was by Caesarean section at the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington - the same private maternity...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted a photograph of two women in uniform from a Canadian youth cadet program on X on Sept. 1, 2026, with the caption "🇨🇦 (this is real)." The post, viewed more than 17 million times, was widely interpreted as mocking the physical appearance of a Cadet Instructors Cadre officer. The image originated from an Aug. 24 Instagram post by the Vernon Cadet Training Centre in British Columbia celebrating the conclusion of its 2026...
GLENDALE, Calif. - A Porsche Panamera driver tore the car's rear bumper off Friday, Aug. 28, 2026, while trying to escape a tow truck that had already lifted the vehicle's rear wheels off the ground. Video posted by Instagram account @kakonauto shows the sedan hooked to the truck with its back end suspended. The driver then accelerated. The car's all-wheel-drive system pulled it free, dragging the tow arm down the street as the bumper ripped away and other parts scattered...
On a late-August Saturday in Downtown Santa Monica, the city's premier indoor public amenity performed its most honest civic function yet: it stopped pretending the air was conditioned. The Main Library at 601 Santa Monica Boulevard has spent years on the municipal highlight reel as a "cooling center." Official posts show books, sunlight, and the gentle implication that if you are overheating, civilization still has a plan. The plan, it turns out, has a compressor. By...
In a stunning reversal of their 2020 "Megxit," Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are packing up their life in Montecito and relocating to the United Kingdom later this month with their children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5. The couple, who have made the exclusive Santa Barbara County community their primary home for the past six years, will establish a private, non-royal residence outside London while keeping their California property,...
Gina de Baca and the Santa Monica Ballet Folklorico and Cultural Center (also known as Cabeza de Vaca Cultural Dance School / Center) are offering Adult and children's Hula Dance classes in partnership with the City of Santa Monica. They are also offering both adult and child Folklorico Dance classes with the city, along with Belly Dance classes. Founded by Gina de Baca more than 20 years ago in response to the loss of local cultural programs amid rapid gentrification on the...
Actress Hayden Panettiere died on Sunday, August 16, 2026, at age 36 in Greenville, South Carolina. As of Friday, August 21, 2026, the official cause and manner of death remain pending further testing, including toxicology results that could take several weeks (or up to about eight weeks or longer). Panettiere was found unresponsive in cardiac arrest at Judson Mill Lofts (an apartment complex where she had been temporarily staying) after a 911 call around 1:51 p.m. local time....
PORTLAND, Ore. – (Updated 8.16.26) The mystery of the two fare-dodging pygmy goats who briefly joined Portland’s morning rush hour has a happy ending: Billy the Kid and Billy the Goat are safely back home, the gate is locked tighter than ever, and TriMet has even commemorated their 20-second adventure with T-shirts. Security camera footage from the TriMet stop at Southeast 162nd Avenue and Division Street shows the white goats calmly trotting up during the Tuesday, Aug. 11,...
SANTA MONICA - A rare hammerhead shark was filmed swimming near Malibu Pier on Thursday afternoon, August 13, 2026, just a short drive up the coast from Santa Monica, drawing attention from local anglers and marine experts. Video captured by a Los Angeles County fisherman and posted under the account @PIERMACKEREL shows the shark swimming roughly a football field from shore at Surfrider Beach. In the footage, the angler briefly hooks the animal before it spits the bait and...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — On a sunny Saturday, August 8, 2026, Ocean Avenue temporarily traded car traffic for creativity as the inaugural Art on Ocean – Palisades Park Arts Festival transformed a stretch of the iconic roadway into a vibrant, car-free outdoor gallery overlooking the Pacific. The free, all-ages event ran from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. along Ocean Avenue between California and Montana Avenues, adjacent to Palisades Park. More than 100 visual artists from across Cal...
ASPEN, Colo. - A young black bear cub wandered into a restaurant in Aspen on the evening of August 11, 2026, walking among set tables in the dining room before leaving, according to a video shared online by actress and filmmaker Justine Bateman. In the roughly eight-second clip posted to X (formerly Twitter), the cub can be seen moving through a formal dining area with white tablecloths, polished place settings, and booths. The animal pauses near one table, appearing to lower...
If you've been to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park before, you already know it's built around big, sweeping savanna views. But the Park's newest addition, Elephant Valley, takes that idea and turns it into something families won't be able to stop talking about: a chance to watch African elephants for hours, up close, from multiple vantage points. And the best seat in the house can be from your table at a restaurant that puts you right at the edge of their watering hole. We...
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Mahender Makhijani, a 44-year-old Corona del Mar financier and real estate investor, was arrested on June 10, 2026, on a federal criminal complaint charging him with bank fraud. Prosecutors allege he defrauded a federally insured bank out of nearly $100 million by falsifying title insurance documents to inflate the value of collateral. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California and an accompanying affidavit, Makhijani...
We were leaving in the morning. Finally. Which meant I needed sleep. One problem though: my room had been claimed by a tyrant, a hostile invader who would stop at nothing to terrorize what was left of my night, playing on the ancient instincts so deeply entwined in my nervous system I couldn't possibly ignore it. The trouble had begun earlier that day, in the rush to get ready for a long-awaited trip to Crestline with my boyfriend. Sure, it's the middle of nowhere, but that's...
The first thing I noticed wasn't your typical hotel room, it was a large "living" room. We checked into the brand-new Element by Marriott San Diego Mission Valley expecting a standard hotel suite, and instead found ourselves standing on the top floor of the hotel in a fully private, but shareable space with a living room, a dining table, and a full kitchen. Four separate bedroom doors could branch off it, each with its own bed/bathroom configuration, and one main door out in...
We were leaving in the morning. Finally. Which meant I needed sleep. One problem though: my room had been claimed by a tyrant, a hostile invader who would stop at nothing to terrorize what was left of my night, playing on the ancient instincts so deeply entwined in my nervous system I couldn't possibly ignore it. The trouble had begun earlier that day, in the rush to get ready for a long-awaited trip to Crestline with my boyfriend. Sure, it's the middle of nowhere, but that's...
Updated Story – July 4, 2026Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk posted a nearly five-minute video montage on X early on July 4, 2026, celebrating America's 250th Independence Day (the semiquincentennial). The post has drawn massive engagement throughout the holiday.The video is a fast-paced, cinematic montage that blends:Archival historical footage, prominently featuring former President John F. Kennedy Iconic scenes from the Back to the Future films (including time-portal effects, t...
