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Meet the YMCA Youth Basketball Player of the Year, Mia Kondratyeva

Photo by Robert Clark This past week, during the halftime...

Last Month’s Pulse Poll Gives Good News to Unity Slate

This Pulse Poll Is WILD Even by the admittedly low...

Santa Monica’s Minimum and Living Wages Rose Today, But Can’t Keep Up with the Cost of Living

Santa Monica’s Minimum and Living Wages Go Up Every...

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...

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