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Articles from the December 3, 2019 edition


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  • Sold Out Crowd of 900 Attend 33RD Israel Film Festival & Gala Premiere of "Incitement" at Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills

    Rachel Ganz, Special to the Observer|Dec 3, 2019

    The 33RD Israel Film Festival Gala Premiere of "Incitement" at The Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills was presented on November 12, 2019 to a sold out crowd of 900 guests by Rachel Ganz Israel Film Festival Founder/Executive Director Meir Fenigstein,with over 30 years of leadership for the Festival, was the evening's host. Actress Rosanna Arquette presented Academy Award winning producer Arthur Cohn the 2019 IFF Lifetime achievement. Standing ovation and tremendous applause was given as Avi Lerner,...

  • Never forgetting about the wonderful and fun decade of the 1980s

    Jason Strangis, Outside the Box|Dec 3, 2019

    Oh, how I miss the 1980s! MTV was actually cool and playing popular music videos 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Big-hair music bands were everywhere. Guns N' Roses, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Madonna, Whitney Houston, and other famous bands and solo artists were constantly on television and radio. Meanwhile, video stores renting out those clunky old VHS movie tapes (remember them?) were in neighborhoods everywhere across the country. On the big screen, John Hughes' teenage heartbreak movies like...

  • Mrs. Sundquist Goes to San Jose: Local Girl Joins Local Guides for Google Maps

    Observer Staff|Dec 3, 2019
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    Santa Monica resident and travel blogger, Ashley Sundquist was selected to attend Google's Connect Live 2019 summit on November 14-16 in San Jose, California. The annual summit was held at Google's Sunnyvale campus where the tech giant hosted 200 attendees called Google Local Guides who contribute reviews and photos to the Google Maps platform. There are 120 million Local Guides around the world, but just 200 including Sundquist were selected to attend this prestigious conference where...