Upcoming events in the city of Santa Monica.
Santa Monica is on track to get funding from Metro for an open streets event, during which roads are shut to car traffic, to celebrate the Expo line coming to the bayside city, according to a Metro document. The Metro…
For 76 years, locals have gathered at Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica’s Pico Neighborhood for the bay city’s annual Memorial Day celebration. This year, along with the usual food, music and military flyover, City officials unveiled a new monument to Santa…
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…
Kit Bennett’s problems started six years ago after hiking in Simi Valley. She came down with a “strange flu,” and started doing some odd things around the house. “I was putting books in the freezer,” she recalls. Then came a…
“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…
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…
The Santa Monica city council voted to scale back the Twilight Concert series in 2014, due to potential risk factors to public safety outlined by the city manager, the fire chief, and chief of police. This will include removing the jumbo-tron…
Santa Monica College’s Center for Environmental and Urban Studies represents one of Santa Monica’s major hot spots of environmental activism. Within the Center, one can find Sustainable Works, the Environmental Resource Library, and several sustainability-related clubs. For the past 12 years, it has…
Centennial Real Estate Company isn’t a developer. The firm acquires, owns and manages retail, office and mixed-use properties in California and Texas, including a lot of strip malls. However, when they moved into their new headquarters at 5th & Olympic…
From music videos to car commercials, Rube Goldberg machines have been twisting, turning, rolling, and dropping their way through popular culture for several decades. Named after an American cartoonist and inventor, Rube Goldberg machines are based around the premise of…
So CicLAvia, everyone’s favorite open streets event (as in open to all uses that aren’t automobiles) is returning this Sunday from 9:00am to 4:00pm to the famous “Heart of Los Angeles” route (a variant of which started it all back…
It’s billed as the largest volunteer day on the planet, bigger than Santa Monica, bigger than California, bigger even than all of America. Coastal Cleanup Day has become a world-wide volunteer event, where literally millions of pounds of waste is…
As many of you know, the Santa Monica Bike Center is our first official sponsor. It’s thus with great pleasure that we present to you our second event of the week: the Senior Social Ride! More and more people of every…
