Summer is just around the corner and in Santa Monica that means June Gloom, bustling beaches and free music. KCRW announced Thursday the full lineup of the 30th annual free Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier. The concert series…
After several years of recovery, the ocean immediately around Santa Monica Pier is back on Heal the Bay’s 10 most polluted beaches in California, joining two others in L.A. County. The nonprofit, which gives the beaches in California letter grades based…
In the middle of Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station – a collection of about three dozen art galleries housed in repurposed industrial buildings – there is a patch of green space. It is small, about 900 square feet of grass and…
Santa Monica Mayor Pam O’Connor, who represents the seaside city and the Southbay on the Metro Board of Directors, joined Metro CEO Art Leahy,fellow Metro Boardmembers, including L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, and a handful of other Metro and federal officials in…
Today is the last day to register to vote if you want to to have a say in who will be on the ballot this November. It is easy and convenient to register online. With the June 3 primary election two…
View Larger Map It has been seven years since the City began buying up parcels to piece together the 2.5 acre plot of prime real estate in Downtown Santa Monica that it hopes to transform into a new community hub…
The City Council put to rest Tuesday night what has become one of the single-most divisive development projects Santa Monica has seen in decades when it voted 4-1 to rescind its approval of the Bergamot Transit Village development. After months…
About seven years after negotiations began for a mixed commercial and residential project to replace the abandoned Papermate factory in Santa Monica’s former industrial corridor, it’s back to the drawing board. The Santa Monica City Council Tuesday night voted 4-1…
There’s a new push to put the future of Santa Monica Airport before voters, but this time it’s coming from the City Council. As part of its Tuesday agenda, Mayor Pam O’Connor, Mayor Pro Tempore Terry O’Day and Council member…
How much housing ought to get built in the next 20 years? How can we make it affordable? How much job growth should the city plan for? How can we design streets to safely accommodate bicyclists, pedestrians and cars? Where…
Visiting the Third Street Promenade on any given day – let alone on a holiday weekend – it’s hard to imagine the three block stretch between Wilshire Boulevard and Broadway in Downtown Santa Monica was ever anything but a bustling…
“The train is coming” was an oft-repeated phrase at Tuesday night’s meeting on the future of Bergamot Station, the roughly six-acre City-owned arts complex in the heart of SaMo’s former industrial corridor. Home to dozens of galleries and other creative…
Get ready to ride, Santa Monica. To mark the League of American Cyclists‘ National Bike to Work Week, Bike Week LA starts Monday and in SaMo there is no shortage of events to encourage people to ditch their cars for…
This year’s election season promises to be a contentious one and a margin of a couple dozen votes could determine the course of the city’s future for decades to come. In order to make it easier to get involved in…
After three years covering all things Santa Monica exclusively for the city’s oldest news website, The Lookout, I have decided to join the Santa Monica Next team. My decision to do so, while I didn’t come by it easily, was…
