Learning to share has always been difficult for kids. It’s proving just as hard for adults to figure out, too. In a fresh round of bickering over how the new sharing economy should work, Airbnb, a heavyweight of the emerging…
For motorists, the California Incline was always a glorious and scenic way to journey between Pacific Coast Highway and the bluffs of Santa Monica along Ocean Avenue. Bicyclists and pedestrians who traveled the Incline, however, may not have such fond…
Step off the Metro train at the 17th Street/SMC stop in Santa Monica and you’re greeted by an uninviting industrial scene dominated by a large city maintenance yard. Memorial Park is off in the distance, obscured by unattractive lines of…
When Santa Monica’s Annenberg Community Beach House opened in 2009, among the many amenities offered to the public was a fitness center with a variety of exercise equipment. The thinking was that Annenberg visitors would engage in strenuous bench presses…
What are you looking for in life? How about an 8-track tape of ’70s rockers Credence Clearwater Revival? Perhaps some spike-heeled women’s shoes covered in metal studs? Or a vintage grocery scale? This is not a random list but actual…
The Santa Monica Lawn Bowls Club has been hiding in plain sight for more than seven decades. Most likely you’ve passed by the club’s lifeblood many times, the expanse of enclosed green lawn at the southern edge of Douglas Park…
Tracie Garacochea had stayed active her whole life, but a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis six years ago posed a major challenge to her exercise routines. She had to stop yoga because she was losing her balance. Going to the gym…
Celeste Miller’s approach to life after her cancer diagnosis nine years ago wasn’t what you might expect. After hearing the news, she decided to finally learn how to swim. Then she took up rock climbing and began training for triathlons.…
For 30 years, the Santa Monica Pier has hosted free concerts on Thursdays in the summer. Today, the Twilight Concert Series draws thousands from around the region who come to enjoy the bayside city’s beaches while listening to music by…
A new coffee house opened in Santa Monica on Thursday with the lofty goal of not only selling a good cup of joe but revolutionizing the way we envision caffeine beverages. Philz Coffee, the fast-growing coffee shop enterprise, chose Santa…
The Fourth of July holiday transformed Main Street into a slow-moving celebration of everything Santa Monica on Friday, from community groups to public safety officers, with some pageantry, live music and a little zaniness thrown in as well. In some…
Saturday’s event at the Pico Branch Library in Santa Monica was billed as a Grand Opening. So there were civic speeches, a ribbon-cutting moment, and appropriate fanfare, including taiko drummers. All of this, though, was mostly for show. The new…
Locals turned out in droves to Clover Park Saturday for the 23rd annual Santa Monica Festival. The yearly celebration drew thousands to partake in food, live music, and a celebration of sustainable living. The festival also commemorates Juneteenth, which celebrates the…
Teenagers Riley Beres and Jimmy Deshler were volunteering at a Los Angeles shelter last year when a man staying there approached and asked if he could tell them his story of being homeless. That chance meeting was the impetus for…
One by one they walked to the front of the gathering in Santa Monica to ring a bell and say a name. The names they called out were family and friends who have been killed by gun violence. The bell-ringing…
