Letters To The Editor:
Dear Editor, Steve Stajich’s Sept. 24 column addresses two topics. One is a red herring: Are the newer, more immediate modes of communication (SMS, IM, Twitter) critically valuable to society? While he pooh-poohs a fire […]
Palisades Park Tribute to Joan Baez and Bob Dylan:
I was visiting the lovely city of Austin, Texas, earlier this summer and happened by the Stevie Ray Vaughan memorial on the shores of Lady Bird Lake just south of the downtown district. Although Vaughan […]
Forum Looks at Key Westside Land:
A huge chunk of Westside real estate may in large measure determine the future of property development and traffic patterns in the region, and so the UCLA campus and the Veterans Administration grounds were the […]
Alert: Police Blotter: Santa Monica:
Couch Potato. Wednesday, September 23, 4:16 p.m. Officers of The Santa Monica Police Department went to the Zvezda store in the 600 block of Santa Monica Boulevard because they had been informed that an intoxicated […]
Big Blue Bus Opens New Maintenance Facility:
Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus (BBB) has been working on expanding its facilities for almost a decade. The most recent addition to its campus is a new 66,000 square foot maintenance facility located at 1620 […]
Advocating For Arts Education:
Funding for arts education in public schools has been decreasing for years and with the current economic downturn things have gone from bad to worse nationwide. The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) is one […]
One Story of Success:
Among the 30 individual honorees at the 14th Annual Westside Shelter and Hunger Coalition Success Breakfast was 63-year-old Richard Friedland, who survived homelessness, living in a van with his three sons, and now holds down […]
A Cast of Thousands: Abbot Kinney Festival 2009:
Abbot Kinney, the man who developed Venice in 1906, possessed an avid interest in all things cultural. He had traveled extensively through Europe, India, Ceylon, New Guinea, Australia, and Hawaii, and had learned to speak […]
One Story of Success:
Among the 30 individual honorees at the 14th Annual Westside Shelter and Hunger Coalition Success Breakfast was 63-year-old Richard Friedland, who survived homelessness, living in a van with his three sons, and now holds down […]
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