We at Santa Monica Next want to wish you a safe and happy 4th of July weekend. Whether you’re heading to the beach, the Main Street parade, or Downtown, leave the car at home and enjoy the summer weather (and…
Editor’s Note: This is part three of a series looking at the cost of renting in Santa Monica. Here is Part One: The Rent’s Too Damn High and here is Part Two: Rent Control. The corner of Colorado Avenue and Lincoln…
After our successful first “Vote Local” event on Saturday, we will keep the positive momentum going. Santa Monica Next will host another “Vote Local” event on Thursday, July 17. Join us at 5 p.m. in front of City Hall where…
It is a short week this week, but there is still plenty to do. This week, help support Santa Monica in the National Bike Challenge by logging your bike miles and enjoying drinks with fellow riders, celebrate July 4 on…
Hey! Our first Vote Local event is tomorrow and we hope you can make it! Join us at Bergamot Station for art, pizza, and a mixer, co-sponsored by the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica Spoke, and railLA. Starting at…
The war over the future of Santa Monica’s airport continued this week when the City Council at its Tuesday meeting unanimously directed staff to draft a counter ballot initiative that, if approved by voters, would trump a measure sponsored by…
Editor’s Note: This is part two of a series looking at the cost of renting in Santa Monica. Click here for part one. When Charles and Carol Gasko moved to Santa Monica in the mid 1990s, the retired couple from…
A proposal by Santa Monica City Councilmembers Kevin McKeown and Tony Vazquez to put an anti-height ballot measure before voters in November fell flat early Wednesday morning after McKeown was unable to get another council member to second his motion.…
Traveling between LAX and Santa Monica without a car is about to get a whole lot easier. LAX officials announced last week that starting July 15, the FlyAway bus will begin shuttling passengers directly between the Santa Monica Civic Center…
Bob’s Market is a local neighborhood grocery store in the heart of Santa Monica’s Ocean Park neighborhood. It sits at the corner of 17th Street and Ocean Park Boulevard, across the street from John Adams Middle School and only a…
Welcome to Monday. We have got a busy week ahead of us, including our first Vote Local event, a City Council meeting with at least two controversial items being discussed, and a major proposed change to one of the Big…
It is no secret to anyone who has considered moving to Santa Monica that finding a place to live here is not cheap. A person in 2013 looking to rent in Santa Monica – and about 70 percent of the…
Much noise has been made around urban planning in Santa Monica in recent months. A growing regional population, a burgeoning public transit system, increasing demand for shared streets, and an overall change in how we think about urban spaces have all…
The most recent casualty of the ongoing – and largely manufactured – controversy over plans to invest millions of private dollars into the Bergamot Station Arts Center on six acres of City-owned land, could be the Santa Monica Museum of…
This week, Santa Monica College honors its grads and Make Music L.A. brings dozens of free concerts to public spaces throughout the region, including a number of the bayside city’s parks. SMC Commencement Ceremony Santa Monica College will hold its…
