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SPHS Softball Delivers First Inning Knockout In 9th Straight Win
San Pedro News Pilot
Apr 28Knowing the El Segundo Tournament and a showdown with Port Of Los Angeles High was looming, the San Pedro High softball team made it a point to make their Marine League battle with visiting Narbonne of Harbor City the most important thing… »
Expo Line backers hope the Westside is ready to come aboard
The Open Daily
Apr 28Transit officials are spending $2.2 billion to extend the Expo Line light rail through the Westside. Both Santa Monica and Culver City are making big bets that the line will be a boon to their bustling but traffic-clogged communities.Cuningham Group Ar... »
TOMS Marketer Will Promote Santa Monica Pier
Santa Monica Patch
Apr 27New leadership for the Santa Monica Pier is now fully in tact with the hiring of a Chief Administrator Officer, S. Jay Farrand—the former marketing director for the popular shoe brand, TOMS. Farrand was hired by the freshly reconstituted Santa Monica P... »
Local Theater Stages 'Psycho Beach Party'
Santa Monica Patch
Apr 27Before the campy comedy horror Psycho Beach Party was a movie, it was an off-Broadway production. Now in the perfect kickoff to summer, the silly parody of 1970s slasher flicks and early 1960′s surf and beach blanket movies is set to run Saturday throu... »
Newport shopping center for sale
The Orange County Register Newport Beach
Apr 27The Mariner’s Center shopping center in the Mariners’ Mile district on Pacific Coast Highway at Riverside Drive in Newport Beach is for sale. Broker Hanley Investment Group says: Built in 1956 and remodeled in 1984, Mariner’s Center is... »
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From the Sidelines with Miguel Melendez
May 18As some of you know I graduated from Alhambra (2001) and some of the coaches I've covered in my four-year tenure here at the Star-News also at some point were my teachers, most notably Joe Petralia (former boys basketball coach)... »
Ludo Speaks on His Foie Gras Swan Song With Jon and Vinny at Son of a Gun
Grub Street Los Angeles
May 16Ludo's last stand? Ludo Lefebvre continues his romance with Animal chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo with two final nights of foie-feasts at the chefs' Son of a Gun this Sunday, May 20 and Monday, May 21. Shook sets the table for what just might be a sw... »
Grey’s Anatomy Actor Jesse Williams Has a Great Caterer on the Set of His New Movie
Grub Street Los Angeles
May 16Jesse Williams digs in On Grey's Anatomy, which wraps its eighth season tomorrow, Jesse Williams's character is probably most famous for deflowering a virginal resident. In real life, though, Williams spends his time seeking out the most soulful food w... »
Who's Cooking at Taste of the Nation L.A., June 10 at The Lot
Grub Street Los Angeles
May 16Share Our Strength Taste of the Nation, the annual chef-crammed fundraiser for Share Our Strength's efforts to end childhood hunger in the U.S., returns on June 10 from 1:00 to 4:00 P.M. at West Hollywood's The Lot. The event is guaranteed to be packed... »
Activision pays $42 million to Call of Duty plaintiffs
LA Times Company Town
May 15Days before it is expected to go to trial for a $1-billion lawsuit on its Call of Duty franchise, Activision Blizzard Inc. cut a $42-million check to several dozen game developers who are suing the company. »