JEI Learning Center opens a new location in Manhattan Beach and welcomes Leia Joaquin as its director.

Open Kitchen LLC launches Appetivo, a Los Angeles app that lets home cooks sell meals under California’s new AB 626 law.

Instructors Melissa Okabe and Kalina Salvador host free yoga and discounted cryotherapy with Beach Cities Cryo in Torrance on May 19, 2018.

Public Storage launches its What a Joke! video contest ahead of April Fools’ Day, offering $5,000 for the most-viewed prank or joke video.

After $33 million in growth funding, El Segundo AI firm SmartAction hires Dale Zwizinski and Andrew Taylor to expand direct and partner sales.

Snapshots tells a story in which three generations of one family see their secrets come out and their destinies collide.

Los Angeles studio M2 launches Macroverse, a mobile comics platform with tap-through stories, opening with the noir zombie series DeadTown.

United Friends of the Children receives a $100,000 S. Mark Taper Foundation grant for education and housing help for LA County foster youth.

Los Angeles retrofit firm Optimum Seismic launches Seismic Waves, a monthly newsletter on earthquake risk, retrofits and resilience policy.