Thanks everyone who came out to our Santa Monica fundraiser at Juan and Sirinya Matute’s. We raised nearly $1,000 (in addition to the over $2000 from the KickStarter campaign) making it a successful event. Plus the view was amazing, the…
It’s billed as the largest volunteer day on the planet, bigger than Santa Monica, bigger than California, bigger even than all of America. Coastal Cleanup Day has become a world-wide volunteer event, where literally millions of pounds of waste is…
Starting on October 1, you’ll notice a new banner on the side of our website when Pocrass and De Los Reyes LLP Attorneys begin their sponsorship of Santa Monica Next. The law firm specializes in personal injury cases including crashes…
Or, you can RSVP on Facebook. If you donated more than $35 on the Santa Monica Next KickStarter, all you have to do is show up.
By design and by coincidence, it was a day of contrasts. On one hand, you have a group of roughly fifty advocates riding bicycles, many of whom are involved in local civic organizations snaking in a pattern across the outside…
Steinberg’s hasty press conference after passage of SB 743 Last night, both California’s Senate and Assembly passed SB 743, Senator Darrell Steinberg’s legislation that was basically designed to streamline the environmental review for a proposed new stadium for the Sacramento…
(This article first appeared on Streetsblog Los Angeles.) Finally, some sanity may be coming to California’s most important environmental protection law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Under current law, all projects, be they rail lines, bike plans, or new…
Did you know Santa Monica has the largest bike parking facility of its kind in the country? The wildly popular Bike Center, with locations at Santa Monica and Main and 1502 4th Street, should be a model for cities looking…
Yesterday, we warned you that change is coming to Santa Monica. The good news is, it appears that the city’s transit agency is readying itself for that change. The Big Blue Bus has long been the face of transit in…
Santa Monica Next was proud to participate in the Santa Monica Museum of Arts’ Tour da Arts event last month and we’re happy to share the official video of Tour Da Arts Vol. 5. This event has quickly become one…
With our successful launch in our rearview mirror, it’s time to start thinking ahead for our joint fundraiser/party with Streetsblog Los Angeles scheduled for 9/22 from 11 am to 3 pm at Wilshire and 11th. Between the Kick Starter and…
Last week, the City of Malibu released a draft study addressing safety issues on the 21 miles of Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) that runs through the city. The release coincided with the launch of an online survey to garner feedback…
I’m going to be honest. When Streetsblog San Francisco launched, and they got their own Streetfilm announcing the launch. I was jealous. I didn’t get a video for Streetsblog L.A. I vowed, that if I ever launched a news website,…
Today, we formally launch Santa Monica Next, a new online news magazine that looks at what Santa Monica can do now to become a more resilient and durable city in the next ten, thirty and one hundred years in the…
Tomorrow at 11 am, Santa Monica Next will host a press conference announcing our formal launch. The event will feature our writing team talking about our short- and long-term goals for the website and the City of Santa Monica. Since…
