Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier welcomes Paul Garnica as Food and Beverage Director for the two-acre amusement park. “We feel very fortunate to have hired a food and beverage director with Paul’s caliber […]

The Rotary Club of Santa Monica will host its “Flights of Wine” Wine & Jazz Festival this Sunday, Oct. 19 from 2 pm to 5 pm. The annual fundraiser has a new home with plenty […]

Los Angeles is considering banning smart phone applications that allow users to auction off parking spaces, with council members saying today the practice amounts to “extortion.” Councilman Mike Bonin’s motion to ban such apps was […]

An actress who has appeared on the soap operas “One Life to Live” and “Guiding Light” pleaded no contest today to a felony assault charge stemming from a December 2013 run-in with a woman at […]

A Los Angeles City Council panel on Friday backed shifting city elections from odd- to even-numbered years to coincide with federal and state balloting — a change that could result in a one-time extension of […]

First-round Grammy ballots are in the mail Thursday. The awards process for the 57th annual Grammy Awards started yesterday, when ballots went out to about 12,000 voting members. The Recording Academy has validated 17,144 entries […]

A mountain biker was seriously injured Thursday on trails near Brentwood. The injury was reported at 7:07 p.m. on the Brentwood Trails near the 17500 block of Mulholland Drive, said Erik Scott of the Los […]

A search was underway for an armed man who confronted a UCLA student in Westwood early today, but she wasn’t hurt. The confrontation occurred in the 400 block of Landfair Avenue around 12:15 a.m., said […]

Sunday’s fifth season premiere of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” drew a record audience for a basic cable drama series, while CBS was the most-watched network for the third time in the three-week-old prime-time television season. […]