Medicare turns 51 this year and County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl will be joined on Sunday by other elected officials and community leaders for a garden party in Santa Monica to celebrate and promote even more progressive healthcare reform. On Saturday,…
This week, get your tickets for Santa Monica Next’s second-annual cocktail fundraiser, head to the Pier for the next installment of the Twilight Concert Series, and get out of the office for a Picnic on the Promenade. Join us at…
Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. wants to know what you love — and what you don’t — about the beachside city’s thriving urban core. To that end, the nonprofit that manages Santa Monica’s downtown area is employing a new digital tool,…
Come August 1, Santa Monica’s Breeze Bike Share is going to get cheaper for most users when the system’s pricing structure overhaul goes into effect. In addition to increasing the daily ride time for members from 60 to 90 minutes,…
Santa Monica’s second protected bikeway is getting the green treatment. The five-block protected cycle track that runs along Colorado Avenue from the new Downtown Santa Monica Expo Station at 5th Street to the Santa Monica Pier is finally getting some…
Who doesn’t love a free concert? But, also, who doesn’t like waiting in traffic on their way to or from a free concert? We suspect the answers are almost nobody and almost everybody respectively. The good news is that tonight…
The city of Santa Monica is currently in the running for more than $3.6 million of state grant money to fund three major street safety and mobility improvement projects. Last month, the city applied for the funding through Caltrans’ statewide…
This week, the free summer concerts on the Santa Monica Pier start again, as do the weekly Picnic on the Promenade events and the Library at the Beach series. Then, later this month, you can help support Santa Monica Next…
Santa Monica Next will be enjoying a three-day weekend this weekend, but there are some fun events with which you can tide you over until we return on Tuesday. On Saturday, July 2, Santa Monica is hosting another family-friendly Kidical…
The social and economic justice organization, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), recently decided to oppose the Residocracy-backed Land Use Voter Empowerment (L.U.V.E.) initiative, citing concerns it would unduly burden low-income people. Over the course of two meetings…
Downtown Santa Monica today is one of southern California’s premiere destinations. People flock there from everywhere in the city, the region, the state, and even the world. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, in the middle of last…
Citing concerns that the anti-development Land Use Voter Empowerment (L.U.V.E.) initiative would only exacerbate Santa Monica’s housing affordability crisis, the Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing (SCANPH) voiced their opposition in a letter to the City Council last week. In…
This weekend, head to Santa Monica College for the annual “Celebrate America” fireworks show. Next week, the Ocean Park Association is looking for volunteers to help with its annual 4th of July parade. And the Santa Monica City Council will…
On the outskirts of Santa Monica’s bustling downtown sits a small wooden house, where, in 1979, Polish immigrant Elina O’Lague, opened her restaurant. Named for her homeland’s capital city, Warszawa, the restaurant instantly became as much of a community center…
The Santa Monica City Council Tuesday night unanimously voted to have city staff study potential impacts of the Residocracy-backed no-growth Land Use Voter Empowerment (L.U.V.E.) initiative before making a final decision next month about whether to put it on the…
