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Welcome to Monday. We have got a busy week ahead of us, including our first Vote Local event, a City Council meeting with at least two controversial items being discussed, and a major proposed change to one of the Big…
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…
This week, Santa Monica College honors its grads and Make Music L.A. brings dozens of free concerts to public spaces throughout the region, including a number of the bayside city’s parks. SMC Commencement Ceremony Santa Monica College will hold its…
Santa Monica had a good night at the American Planning Association (APA) awards gala Thursday night. City officials took home three honors at the ceremony, hosted by the Los Angeles chapter of the APA and attended by urban planners…
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…
