March 9, 2005

Main Street Lights Up, Venice Boardwalk Tightens Up:

Last Thursday evening, Main Street’s new lights were turned on. Their primary purpose is to encourage more people to spend their evenings on Ocean Park’s principal thoroughfare. Last Saturday, artists, street performers, musicians and advocates of every sort of cause gathered on the Venice Boardwalk to protest the Los Angeles City Council’s recent effort to regulate the Venice Beach Free Speech Zone by requiring persons to pay $25 fees for L.A. Recreation and Parks Department permits and then take part in a monthly lottery for 106 designated spaces on the west side of the boardwalk.

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January 4, 2007

Man Shot, Killed on Pico:

A 22-year-old Santa Monica man, Miguel Martin, was shot and killed on Pico Boulevard Wednesday evening, December 27, in what police are calling a gang-related incident. No arrests have been made. Santa Monica Police responded […]

August 31, 2005

SURF’S UP AT SAMOHI:

Several hundred people, including some of Samohi’s lengendary old surfers and members of the current school Surf Club, as well as class of ’65 alumni, gathered at Barnum Hall on the Santa Monica High School […]