The Santa Monica Museum of Art will head east to talk about the L.A. River, Rem Koolhaas’ Plaza at Santa Monica project will get another round of public discussion, and OK Go will play the Pier. Smmoa At the Frogspot Join…
Santa Monica Spoke, the bayside city’s local chapter of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition (LACBC), is calling for people to join the ride from Calabasas to Downtown Los Angeles today to protest the County District Attorney’s refusal to press…
Incumbents Pam O’Connor and Kevin McKeown, along with former City Councilmember Michael Feinstein, will get the backing of the City employees’ unions this November. The Coalition of Santa Monica City Employees (CSMCE), which represents all the City’s non-safety workers, announced…
It has been a long time coming, but Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus finally opened its first stops with real-time bus arrival information Thursday evening. The first two of what Big Blue Bus (BBB) officials say will be more than…
Santa Monica Next and Streetsblog Los Angeles is proud to announce that The League of Women Voters of Santa Monica Education Fund will co-sponsor our City Council candidate forum next month. The Santa Monica branch of the nonpartisan political organization will join Next and Streetsblog Los Angeles…
Downtown Santa Monica, Inc., the nonprofit that oversees the bayside city’s bustling “living room,” celebrated another year of well-rounded success Thursday morning at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel. And with the number of jobs and homes on the rise, a burgeoning…
Summer is almost over, but there is no lack of things to keep us busy between now and the fall. Here are just a few of the many events coming up in the next week that you won’t want to…
The filing period officially ended Wednesday for anyone considering running for elected office in Santa Monica, which means we have semi-official lineups for the bayside city’s four races this November. This year promises to be an important one for local…
Two companion ballot initiatives proposed by Santa Monica City Hall that would raise as much as $10 million a year to fund low-cost housing production became the target of a lawsuit Monday. The lawsuit, filed by a group calling itself “No…
The 11-person steering committee in charge of Santa Monicans for Renters’ Right, the city’s single-most influential political organization, announced the group’s endorsements for City Council Sunday. A week after the SMRR members made local history by failing, for the first…
Putting an end to months of speculation, City Councilmember Bob Holbrook announced yesterday that he would not seek a seventh term on the Santa Monica City Council. Many close observers of local politics expected that Holbrook would step down this…
Santa Monica in the early 1930s was many things, but a sleepy beach town it wasn’t. The bayside city was a major industrial center where Douglas Aircraft Company (later known as McDonnell Douglas) manufactured the famous DC-3 transport planes. It was…
Tour da Arts, the annual summer festival that combines art, music, and dance with community cycling, returns to Bergamot Station for the sixth year running this August. The Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA) is joining forces with C.I.C.L.E., Santa…
For the first time in its nearly 40 year history, Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights — the city’s single-most influential political organization — failed to endorse a single candidate for City Council at the organization’s endorsement convention Sunday. About 450…
Should Santa Monica have a City Target? That was the question facing City officials in February 2001. The retail giant had singled-out a location in the bayside city’s Downtown – on a parking lot behind what is now REI on…
