(Renee Schiavone/Patch) MALIBU, CA —Malibu saw a 42.9 percent voter turnout increase following a 2015 law mandating that local elections be moved to days of national or state elections if a city ...

Nothing is better after a long, hard week at school than to watch a good movie. Since 1888, movies have been around to provide viewers with an outlet from reality. All genres of film — romance, comedy, drama, mystery, science fiction, action, horror and ...

The first stanza’s palm fronds are probably not actual palm fronds, but the plants looked a lot like one! The second stanza depicts a real, but odd phenomenon in which the sun’s rays moves vertically downward. The third stanza is about a turtle, or ...

In June, Carmen Dianne was attending a makeup mentorship program but her focus was elsewhere. The event came on the heels of George Floyd’s death, and the Black makeup artist felt as if a switch ...

As restaurant jobs have disappeared during the pandemic, there has been a boom in informal food pop-ups in Los Angeles, a rapidly evolving culture that has brought us smoked brisket and roti ...

In my mind, the seasons at the farmers market aren’t really defined by the calendar; they are marked by what I like to obsess over for months at a time. It usually goes something like this ...

There also were attendees calling for a swifter reopening of campuses in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. “I have two teenagers who are suffering so badly, and I have one little ...

Billionaire developer Rick Caruso, the man behind the Grove and the Americana at Brand, is asking $40 million for his oceanfront home in Malibu. After paying $100 million for a Malibu mansion in ...

But you probably haven’t been to this Malibu mansion, which Caruso just listed for sale at $40 million. Caruso, the billionaire developer who was elected chairman of the USC Board of Trustees in ...

Between the two neighboring estates overlooking Malibu’s Paradise Cove, Koum now has six acres of land. His new place accounts for three of those acres and features a single-story main house ...