Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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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 and pop stores....
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 history." The major...
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 was to show her gen...
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, bigger is better,...
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 to thank you for...
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 affiliated with the...
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 put them out of busines...
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 that many...
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 customer as 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. While a typical...
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 retailers is the large...
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 and training for...
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 replaced with wooden cha...
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 exposure to the game...
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 in their terms and...
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 once told me that...
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 Civil Aviation...
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 system, called...
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, although Koper is far...
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" from FCA, and...
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 Craigslist post read, and...
Google services will continue to function on Huawei devices, the US company said Monday after the Trump administration imposed restrictions on doing business with the Chinese telecom giant. "We assure you while we are complying with all US gov't requirements, services like Google Play & security from Google Play Protect will keep functioning on your existing Huawei device," Google's Android operating system said in a statement. Reports emerged over the weekend that Google and other US...
Co-working is often more pleasant these days than putting in eight hours at a traditional office. If you'd prefer a workspace that looks like a chic hotel lobby with waiters at your service, that can be arranged. Want to be around other women in a cabana on an outdoor terrace? There's a place in West Hollywood for you. Is your goal to hang with other creative types? There are co-working clubs that want you as a member. But while the offices strive to be oases of fellowship, the co-working...
(dpa) - Coffee lovers, pay attention: You've been drinking sub-par coffee - a Los Angeles roaster has set the bar way higher than anything you've ever tried with a 75-dollar cup of coffee. Klatch Coffee says its Elida Geisha Natural 803 is the world's most expensive coffee, and the clue is in the name: The 803 refers to the 803 dollars that were paid for a single pound of the beans at auction. The coffee was auctioned after winning the Best of Panama coffee competition. Overall, there were only...
Beijing (dpa) – More than 74 per cent of US companies in China reported that tariffs adopted as part of the US-China trade war are hurting their business, an industry group survey said Wednesday. Manufacturers in China were the hardest hit, with more than 80 per cent reporting being harmed by both US and Chinese tariffs, according to a survey by AmCham China and AmCham Shanghai. About one in five US companies experienced increased inspections, while more than 19 per cent reported slower c...
