Arts & culture news for Santa Monica.
Mark your calendars, Santa Monica. The Big Blue Bus wants your feedback on the agency’s newly redesigned bus stop seats, which will be at different locations around the city over the next three weeks; there will also be some important changes to bus…
Welcome back! We hope that everyone enjoyed their holidays. At Santa Monica Next, we were able to get some much-needed downtime. Now we’re rested and ready to get back to work. What are you most looking forward to in 2015, Santa…
Writers Boot Camp Gallery at Bergamot Station will host an upcoming exhibition exploring what Santa Monica’s airport could become, if it were repurposed into public open space. On Thursday, October 23 from 6 to 9 p.m., students at the USC Landscape…
It may be fall, but that doesn’t mean we have to spend our time indoors. We’ve got plenty coming up to keep us active and outside to enjoy autumn in Santa Monica. Bogotá Change at Bergamot Station On Wednesday, October 1,…
Mark your calendars! Santa Monica’s world-famous 3rd Street Promenade is turning 25 (and you can bet there will be some fanfare), Santa Monica gets ready to celebrate Park(ing) Day, and our City Council Candidate forum is only a week away.…
Two days after the City Council voted to move forward with plans to revitalize and redevelop Bergamot Station Arts Center, local anti-development group, Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City (SMCLC), issued a statement, calling the decision an “important win.” Wait,…
(Streetsblog Los Angeles, L.A. Walks and Place It! are competing for your vote for an #la2050 grant to bring a Vision Zero street safety campaign to Los Angeles. James Rojas, Place It’s founder, explains why his interactive planning model is…
After listening to about 100 speakers over four hours, the Santa Monica City Council picked a developer team to advance plans to revitalize the Bergamot Station Arts Center Tuesday night. The City Council voted 5-to-1 against staff’s recommendation that…
On Tuesday, the City Council will decide whether to go ahead with plans for the Bergamot Station Arts Center revitalization project. Three developer teams — Bergamot Station LTD/Worthe, 26Street TOD Partners, LLC, and REthink/KOR — are competing for the right to invest tens…
The Santa Monica Museum of Art will head east to talk about the L.A. River, Rem Koolhaas’ Plaza at Santa Monica project will get another round of public discussion, and OK Go will play the Pier. Smmoa At the Frogspot Join…
Downtown Santa Monica, Inc., the nonprofit that oversees the bayside city’s bustling “living room,” celebrated another year of well-rounded success Thursday morning at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel. And with the number of jobs and homes on the rise, a burgeoning…
Summer is almost over, but there is no lack of things to keep us busy between now and the fall. Here are just a few of the many events coming up in the next week that you won’t want to…
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…
Tour da Arts, the annual summer festival that combines art, music, and dance with community cycling, returns to Bergamot Station for the sixth year running this August. The Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA) is joining forces with C.I.C.L.E., Santa…
With election season in full swing, the community discussion about development and the future of Santa Monica has gotten more hostile than usual. At a candidate forum put on by a local anti-development group Monday, peace activist and perennial Council…
