Looters attacked a local REI during protests in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon but their plan was foiled by a couple protecting the store. In the videos below you can see a woman getting tossed around by looters as she attempts to block them from breaking the store’s windows. — Alicia Jessop

Author: Ina Fried / Source: Axios 1 big thing: Snap sees a future in services A slew of new updates, features and services unveiled by Snap Inc. Thursday capture the Santa Monica-based “camera company” in mid-evolution — from a chat platform to a broker of value-added services modeled on China’s

Source: Good News Network Unlike Kickstarter which funds creative startups, or GoFundMe which addresses personal needs, Projects for Good was designed for people who want to support the greater good, not just with money, but with their talent and energy—and don’t know where to start. Patrick

Charlies Angeles has some competition – three women in Santa Monica saved another woman from getting date raped by her friend and people have dubbed them as heroines. Sonia Ulrich shared the story of what happened when she and 2 of her friends, Monica Kenyon and Maria Saltzer, were having drinks

Sending cars into space. Attempting to colonize Mars. Flamethrowers. And now the latest venture for Elon Musk is retro drive-in restaurants. Tesla has applied for permits to build a restaurant and supercharger station in Santa Monica. What better way to wait for your Tesla to get filled up than to