Tag: Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 19, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Nationally known law firm Weitz and Luxenberg P.C. secured a verdict of $5.2 million in damages on behalf of an 82-year-old Orange County, California, man and his wife who sued a Fortune 500 company they charged with contributing to his increased risk of developing mesothelioma, Weitz & Luxenberg announced today.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 19, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Coverage Ink Films, producers of the animated horror thriller 'Malevolent' have launched an IndieGogo campaign. The goal is to reach $45K for finishing funds. The film stars Ray Wise ('Twin Peaks,' 'Robocop'), Morena Baccarin ('Deadpool,' 'Gotham,' 'Firefly'), Bill 'Choptop' Moseley ('The Devil's Rejects,' 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre II') and sci-fi legend William Shatner ('Star Trek,' 'Boston Legal').

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 12, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Star Trek fans and those with interest in movie history have the chance to 'boldly go where no man has gone before.' The original iconic movie model of the USS Enterprise used in the first six Star Trek films is about to be rebuilt, Project Enterprise announced today.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 9, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- MostFit is excited to announce its new 4-hour certification training program accredited through NASM and ACE. Trainers and Group Ex Instructors will receive .4 Continuing Education Credits for attending the training.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 8, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Uproar Entertainment is excited to announce the release of Brett Hamil's first comedy CD 'GROWER' on February 12, 2016. Recorded in front of a live audience at the The Comedy Underground in Seattle, Washington, this CD packs a hilarious, socially conscious brand of comedy that gets people both thinking and laughing.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 5, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Writer John Scott G is creating the world's first omnibus novel. Interweaving nine novels, dozens of short stories, numerous comedy routines, and a great deal of political satire, 'Area Code 666' is being serialized on Ga-Ga.com, the new online magazine of the arts (in BETA).

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 25, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- The need for a decent auto repair in Los Angeles is at high demand considering the number of vehicle registrations within the last 5 years (29.7 million according to LA Almanac). Anyone who has prior experience in getting a car repaired knows the typical auto body shop atmosphere and how these shops operate. One would notice that the majority of the shops are pretty much the same, unless they run into Pristine Automotive Center Inc, an auto body repair shop of Silver Lake in Los Angeles.

COMPTON, Calif., Jan. 21, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Former Mississippi State star Renardo Sidney was the first player taken in the inaugural California Basketball Association's draft Sunday January 10, 2016. In all, 48 players were selected by six different CBA men's teams over eight rounds to play in the new professional basketball league. Free Agent tryouts are Saturday January 23, 2016 at 5 p.m. at the USESS Center in Compton, California.

SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 21, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a unique and innovative national retail insurance brokerage and employee benefits consulting firm, announced today that Clarence Bates has joined the firm as a Principal in the Employee Benefits Practice.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 12, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Uproar Entertainment is excited to announce the release of Nick Cobb's first comedy CD, 'Too Broke For Therapy' to be released January 15, 2016.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 11, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- A&I, the fine art photographic printing and services company, will present the work of award-winning photojournalist Tish Lampert at its booth #816 at PhotoLA. The exhibit is part of Lampert's 15-year series on the landmark protests of our times. Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the UN, will dedicate the exhibition in a special event highlighting his world peace initiative.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 6, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Carolwood Equities, a privately-held, fully-integrated real estate investment company, just closed a deal for an impressive return and the firm's founders, Andrew Shanfeld and Adam Rubin, partners, say it's just the beginning.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan. 4, 2016 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Urbanstylz, the independent production company, announced today that its first feature film, 'Trey the Movie,' which was produced for just $68, has grossed more than $150,000 in multiple channels of digital distribution while garnering attention at numerous film festivals. The film tells the story of a man whose life is so overwhelming that he snaps killing everyone in his path. It was Mr. James' directorial debut, with an experimental approach to production marked by trial, error and many accidental creative successes.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 30, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- American-Russian Business Council is pleased to announce that its member and director of the Netflix original documentary 'Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom,' Evgeny Afineevsky, has been awarded the Medal of the Cross of Ivan Mazepa by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 15, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Civic Resource Group (CRG) and the Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism of Palm Springs, Calif. today announced the availability of the Augmented Reality 'VisitPalmSprings' App on iTunes. The joint collaboration achieves the goal of designing and delivering a mobile solution that provides instant, multi-aspect navigation data. Residents, visitors and tourists in the City of Palm Springs now have instant access to a broad range of information about the city on their mobile device.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 14, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- We've all heard the phrase, 'Art imitates life.' And it could not ring truer than in how a new contemporary art movement, Excessivism, founded by American artist, Kaloust Guedel, that showcases the excessiveness present in people's lives, correlates to Donald Trump's bid for the GOP presidential nomination.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 11, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- A standing-room-only crowd of more than 2,200 affected residents gathered Wednesday night in Porter Ranch, California. They were there to listen to environmental activist Erin Brockovich, scientists and attorneys from Weitz and Luxenberg discuss their legal options against Southern California Gas Co. due to a leak from the natural gas storage well in the hills above their homes, the law firm of Weitz and Luxenberg today reported.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 10, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Multi award-winning singer/songwriter/composer Paul Luftenegger and New York Times best-selling author Anita Moorjani, whose hugely successful book 'Dying to be Me' chronicles her struggle with cancer and her near death experience with heaven (over one million copies sold, translated into 47 languages), are jointly releasing an album to inspire self-love, 'The Miracle of You.'

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec 2, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Civic Resource Group (CRG) and TransitScreen, Inc. today announced they have joined forces to modernize the transit displays in 46+ different locations across the San Francisco Bay Area as part of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)'s Hub Signage program.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 24, 2015 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Regardless of America's focus on 'white nationalism,' Palestinian-Latina-American Sofia Hanan continues on her quest to become Miss California USA(R) 2016. The USA has become ultra sensitive to the idea of outsiders living amongst them. Fears heightened after recent Paris attacks and the on-going manhunt for its coordinator.