News from Santa Monica.
The Buy Local Health and Fitness Festival, sponsored by the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce, was held Saturday at the Santa Monica Civic Center. It featured dozens of local businesses and organizations promoting a variety of activities, from yoga to…
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…
Last month, Santa Monica Next reached out to all 10 candidates for City Council with an 11 question questionnaire. Some questions were written to give voters an idea of the candidates personality, others on their positions. So far, six candidates…
(UPDATE, September 8, 8:30 A.M. – Last night the City Planning Commission approved the permit for the location with some small changes including increasing the number of children allowed onsite. The proposal must now go before the Architectural Review Board…
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…
A quick programming note. As of today, Jason Islas is taking a leave of absence from Santa Monica Next. Jason is leaving to work on one of the campaigns this fall. After over two years of writing, editing and representing Next,…
Proponents of no-growth measures like Measure LV, or the Land Use Voter Empowerment (L.U.V.E.) as its backers have dubbed it, in Santa Monica often seek to expand political support by framing their measure as a necessary response to trends of…
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…
Santa Monica Next has just sent out the following letter to every registered candidate for City Council. If you know someone running for office, please make sure they return this to us in the next two weeks so we can share…
While much of the nation is wringing its hands over who will become the next president of the United States, Santa Monica’s local races have begun taking shape and there are some very important issues at stake this year. In…
The Los Angeles League of Conservation (LALCV) voters released a statement earlier this week urging Santa Monica voters to reject the Land Use Voter Empowerment (L.U.V.E.) initiative. LALCV argues the anti-growth initiative will both hinder the city’s ability to provide…
Los Angeles Councilmember Mike Bonin joined Santa Monica Mayor Tony Vazquez early Monday morning to officially install the first of five Breeze Bike Share hubs in Venice. The new station, which is located at 5th Street and Rose, is the…
Santa Monica city planners offered a glimpse into the future of the bayside city’s thriving downtown Thursday. The new online tool lets visitors see which properties are likely to redevelop in the next 20 years and explore three dimensional renderings of…
The post originally ran at Streetsblog California. The California legislature returned from its summer break last week and now has one month to finish all the business it started in this session. If it can. Pending issues include a bill…
