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The Santa Monica Life: Valentine’s Day Family Bike Ride, Romantic Dining for V-Day, Lunch with the Mayor, and Free History
“The Santa Monica Life” is a semi-regular roundup of the local fun, food, drinks, and lifestyle goings-on in Santa Monica. When the fun is...
The Past Isn’t Quite Dead Here, Either: How Racism Shaped Santa Monica
This piece originally ran on The Healthy City Local.
When Fay Wells went national to write, in the Washington Post, about what happened when a...
A Review of “Save the Pier”: A Play Recounting the Fight to Stop the Demolition of Santa Monica Pier
The following is a review of “Save the Pier,” a one-hour play recounting the grassroots fight in the early 1970s to stop the demolition...
Throwback Thursday: Watch A Century of Santa Monica Growth in 20 Seconds
Jamie Horton contributed to this report.
Watch a century of Los Angeles history unfold before your eyes in a matter seconds with Built:LA, a new...
Gruber: When History Repeats As Farce, It’s Not Always Funny
“If the slow-growth movement … has been explicitly a protest against the urbanization of suburbia, it is implicitly—in the long tradition of Los Angeles...
