Twilight Beach Concert This week’s iteration of the ongoing Twilight Concert Series will feature Omar Souleyman and De Lux. Souleyman, a rising artist from Syria, incorporates a variety of influences into his music, including Syrian folk, dance, and electro music. To…
Big Blue Bus Community Meetings Projected to eventually serve over 64,000 people every day, the arrival of Expo Phase II in Santa Monica will bring about a major change in the ridership of the city’s public transportation system. As such,…
In February of this year, the Santa Monica City Council approved the Hines Bergamot Transit Village by a 4-3 vote. The Hines development would include creative office, housing, restaurant, retail, and publicly accessible outdoor spaces. Aside from drastically changing the layout…
The Bergamot Station area has been mired in controversy this year due to the controversial Hines Bergamot Transit Village. However, another project for the same area has also been in consideration, one that should provide far fewer fireworks. Just two weeks…
In recent years, the emergence and popularization of the Local Food Movement has led to a dramatic increase in the availability of locally-grown food. Websites such as Ripe Near Me and Local Harvest connect people to local food growers; weekly…
Earlier this month, Damien did a profile of the Santa Monica Critical Mass. Current iterations of the event are relatively small in scale, but in years past they were highly controversial, even within the cycling community. In hindsight, however, it…
In the past few decades, the internet has brought the world to our fingertips. This idea has become a bit of a cliché given the pervasive role of technology in our lives, but it truly is astounding if you think about…
Ciclovias began in Bogota, Colombia as a response to the congestion and pollution of the city streets. Activists in Los Angeles, in turn, began to organize a similar event for the same reasons. With the support of city officials, the…
For this week’s featured event, we encourage our readers to embrace their artistic side for an event at the Santa Monica Museum of Art called “Collaboration is Utopia.” If you peruse the current exhibitions at the museum, you are bound…
For most of its recent history, the city of Santa Monica has cultivated a reputation as being environmentally friendly, and perhaps even slightly bohemian. If one looks around, it isn’t hard to see where such a reputation would originate: surfers…
There has been a lot of talk recently about the possibility of turning Santa Monica Airport into a large, multipurpose park. While there have been some recent setbacks in the push for such an eventuality, the people in charge of…
Every year, thousands of runners converge on Los Angeles to participate in one of the most widely attended marathons in America: The L.A. Marathon. In years past, there was an official cycling event that coincided with the marathon, but that…
For many, the political process can be immensely confusing. Characterized by inaccessibly long meetings and decisions that are presumably made “behind closed doors,” the inner workings of politics have long fascinated political scholars, while often alienating the general public. Even…
As work on Expo Phase II speeds forward, Santa Monica is busy preparing for the changes it will bring. Just last week, the City Council approved the long-debated Bergamot Transit Village. This will completely transform the Bergamot area, adding restaurants,…
In a city that prides itself on working towards a sustainable future, textile recycling remains an oft-overlooked practice. Although glass, paper, and plastic recycling are all important steps in developing a zero waste city, textile recycling is equally necessary. As…
