A business that was missing in Pacific Palisades — a wine bar with charcuterie — has opened in the 970 Monument building, paired with the adjoining Cinque Terre restaurant. Circling the News attended a sneak preview at Enoteca

Much of Pacific Palisades, which borders on the Santa Monica Mountains, State Parks and brush-covered hillsides, falls in Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones (VHFHSZ). Realtor Bruce Schwartz, a former Citizen of the Year and a member of the Pacific

It took only two plays and 18 seconds for Palisades High to score a touchdown Friday night, with senior Moses Ross racing 52 yards to the end zone. Sophomore Kwazi Estes kicked the first of his seven straight PATs and the Dolphins went on to blitz

A week ago, Circling the News went on a 6 a.m. tour of Venice Beach with a member of the Venice Stakeholders Association. Although City Councilman Mike Bonin had said that more than 200 homeless had recently been offered housing, about 56 people

The Palisades Optimist Club meeting on August 16 featured Dr. Jeff Rich, outreach coordinator for the Carnegie Institution for Science Observatories. He reminded Circling the News of the opening of the Woody Allen film “Annie Hall.” Alvy Singer

Death at Will Rogers Beach Westside Current reported that a woman’s body was found on Will Rogers State Beach early Sunday, according to CBS news. The discovery was made just after 12:30 a.m. near the shoreline of PCH and Temescal Canyon Road.

(Editor’s note: When Palisadian Alan Eisenstock is not researching and writing one of his nonfiction books (18 thus far!), he pursues what he calls “a crazy labor of love side project” that he started in March 2020: sending a weekly Covid-themed

  A reader wrote Circling the News and said that incorrect information was being disseminated about voting in California’s recall election. “The election is complicated enough already without more incorrect information being put out

Although local public schools started just a week ago, parents have already had children sent home/quarantined because of exposure to Covid. At Canyon Elementary, a parent wrote that their child had been exposed to a student who tested positive, and

A young man gathering signatures for the “Recall Bonin” petition was accosted by Caruso security on the sidewalk along Sunset, near Erewhon, on August 24. Two readers contacted Circling the News and said that “Caruso’s employees are claiming that