Trendy Erewhon, the reigning Rolls-Royce of grocery stores, has fallen behind in rent payments for its Culver City outpost, its landlord says. Erewhon is being sued for more than $275,000 by Hackman Capital Partners, an international real estate giant based in Culver City with a property portfolio that includes famous movie studios, office buildings and … Read more
My husband and I had been married for two years when we sold most of our belongings on Facebook Marketplace, bought a van, and hit the road to explore the world outside our doorstep. One year. That’s what we committed to justify the cost of converting the van into a home on wheels. At the … Read more
Reporting from Washington — When Elizabeth Warren launched her 2012 Senate bid in Massachusetts, some Democrats there worried. Another woman had run two years earlier and failed miserably. But Warren ignored warnings that she would be “another Martha Coakley.” She beat the incumbent by more than 7 percentage points and became the first woman elected to statewide … Read more
Week by week, freshman left-handed pitcher Sheriff Hall of Loyola High has gotten better and better. It sets up for an intriguing Southern Section Division 2 baseball final on Saturday when Hall goes against Ganesha at 5:30 p.m. at the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes’ diamond. He’s expected to face unbeaten left-handed pitcher Logan Schmidt after the … Read more
The California attorney general filed a lawsuit Thursday against the company formerly known as 23andMe, accusing the genetic testing service of failing to protect customers’ data during a 2023 breach. The data breach affected nearly 7 million people across the country, including more than 850,000 Californians, according to a release from Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta’s … Read more
Noam Galai/Getty Images for Pacsun This post originally appeared in the BI Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider’s daily newsletter here. From the mall to the Met Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Hall, a violinist played gently in the background. The famous columns were uplit orange, and cocktail tables were … Read more
With just days left to campaign and polls putting him in an unexpectedly strong third place — maybe even second — Tom Steyer is down-not-out. But Riverside’s favorite MAGA sheriff and Republican contender Chad Bianco is almost definitely shoulders-to-the-mat done. That means there’s no chance of a Republican sweep in this blue state, and suddenly, … Read more
Spencer Pratt is a showboat, a loudmouth, a troll and a self-proclaimed villain who seems willing to say anything in his quest to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. Little wonder that his critics rolled their eyes when the former reality television star told CNN host Elex Michaelson a few weeks ago that his … Read more
FIFA and the White House announced on Monday a system that will speed up the visa process for ticket holders who hope to attend 2026 World Cup matches in the U.S. FIFA’s Priority Appointment Scheduling System — or “FIFA PASS” — will help those with World Cup tickets get a prioritized visa interview. “America welcomes … Read more
A Carl’s Jr. franchisee is trying to close and sell his 59 locations in California after filing for bankruptcy protection in April. The franchisee, Harshad Dharod, who has branches mostly in Southern California, intends to close 10 of the branches he controls and find a buyer for the remainder, according to a broker helping find … Read more
Mistral AI’s first summit felt less like a startup conference and more like a campaign rally for Europe’s AI ambitions. The French AI startup, founded just three years ago, packed Paris’s Le Carrousel du Louvre — the event space beneath the Louvre’s famous glass pyramid — on Thursday with executives from SAP, BNP Paribas, Accenture, … Read more
In a few days, Los Angeles voters will be casting ballots for city attorney — and in a few months, they could be voting to sharply diminish the city attorney’s authority. The city’s Charter Reform Commission has proposed splitting the city attorney’s office into two parts — an elected city prosecutor, charged with handling criminal … Read more
“Hell’s Kitchen,” the Alicia Keys musical that has landed at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in a blaze of rousing sound, deploys the R&B star’s glorious treasure trove of work in the service of a semi-autobiographical version of her coming-of-age story in the Manhattan neighborhood that gives the show its title. The Hell’s Kitchen of Alicia … Read more
BRUSSELS — In their first defense pleas in the Heysel trial, lawyers for the British supporters claimed today that they were not the direct cause of death and asked for their acquittal. Twenty-six Liverpool fans are charged with manslaughter in being responsible for the panic and stampede in which 39 people, mostly Italians, lost their lives on … Read more
A Delaware Court of Chancery judge delivered a blow to wrestling impresario Vince McMahon and other World Wrestling Entertainment officials earlier this week. Judge J. Travis Laster, vice chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, issued sanctions for “spoliation of evidence” in the shareholder lawsuit over the 2023 merger between Ultimate Fighting Championship and WWE. … Read more