Santa Monica Pier Closed for New Year’s Weekend

Another awards show has shifted gears — again — amid the pandemic. Film Independent said Thursday that its Spirit Awards, which are typically held during the daytime in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica the day before the Oscars, will now "break tradition" and air in a primetime ceremony at 10 p.m.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe Film Independent Spirit Awards has announced it is moving its ceremony up by two days and will now take place on Thursday, April 22.Traditionally, the event is held during the day on the Saturday before the Oscars, and it is typically hosted from Santa Monica beach. However, this year the ceremony will break with tradition and pivot to a primetime event.The Spirit Awards winners will be announced during a televised event airing on IFC at 10 p.m.

Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards, announced today that this year’s awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, April 22 at 10pm ET, in a prime-time ceremony to be televised on IFC, a one-time break from the show’s usual tradition as a live daytime event occurring on the Santa Monica beach the Saturday before the Oscars.

Kelly Rohrbach, 30, is looking amazing these days! The Baywatch star was spotted walking around under the sun while wearing a multi-colored bikini that helped her flaunt her toned body at a beach in Santa Monica, CA on Jan. 17. She also wore a wicker hat and sunglasses that helped keep the rays out of her eyes.

A crowd waits outside the Eagle LA in East Hollywood. The leather bar has launched a GoFundMe campaign to help it survive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Motorboot  Photography.

cohabitate with a lover — but he’s just invested $27.5 million in a Bel Air mansion for him and his girlfriend, 40-year-old “Titans” actress Minka Kelly. The sleek, 11,000-square-foot mansion at 14930 Corona Del Mar has six bedrooms, eight full bathrooms and three half-bathrooms, all with views of the Santa Monica Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, according to a Wall Street Journal report in September, when the house was still for sale. The couple are “making plans for a future together” in their

This year's edition of the Oscar Wilde Awards, which celebrates the work of those from Ireland — and some who are not — who contribute to film, television and music, has been canceled. The lively event traditionally takes place on the Thursday night before the Academy Awards at J.J.

Kelly Rowland is bumping along!

Ariel Pink against his ex-girlfriend have surfaced in a court case which saw him unsuccessfully attempting to secure a restraining order against her.The singer failed to secure the civil harassment against ex-girlfriend Charlotte Ercoli Coe on January 6, as Pitchfork reports, with Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Laura Cohen ordering Pink’s request to be “hereby stricken and dismissed”.Cohen ruled that Coe is entitled to “reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs,” in an amount that is

Bradley Cooper is stepping out for a workout.

Los Angeles County saw nearly 100,000 new Covid-19 cases in a matter of one week, bringing the region to a total of 906,171 total cases.

“The anticipated surge from the holiday gatherings has begun,” said Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer on Monday. While the daily 9142 new cases recorded in the region on Monday was less than half of the record highs seen in recent weeks, Ferrer said the low number reflects the closure of many testing sites and a delay caused but the holiday.

The number of daily new Covid-19 cases in Los Angeles County had been falling for two weeks. From an all-time high of 21,411 on December 16, new cases had settled at between 13,000 and 15,000. While deaths remained punishingly high, there was some hope that a plateau in cases meant that transmission of the virus had slowed. Friday’s data may smash that hope.