January 3, 2026
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48 Screen Enormoplex Movie Theater to Break Ground.

48 Screen Enormoplex Movie Theater to Break Ground:

National General Multiple Theaters has announced it will soon break ground on Santa Monica’s first 48 screen Enormoplex movie theater. Referred to by industry insiders as “The Flickinator,” new technology will allow the 48 screen venue to show comic book franchise movies as they are being shot and produced. “All the waiting for another loud movie with cartoon people in it is over!” stated

New Gelson’s will feature Drive-Through Salad Bazooka

New Gelson’s will Feature Drive-Through Salad Bazooka:

Making good on a promise to give Santa Monica shoppers “time-saving help” in taking care of their grocery needs, the new Gelson’s will build a drive-through salad bazooka that blows a varied mix of lettuce, greens, and kale from a huge canon aimed at the open passenger side window of customer’s vehicles.

City Council Spends Entire Night Debating Smart Water.

City Council Spends Entire Night Debating Smart Water:

Spurred by insistence on the part of several council members that certain water was “just plain smarter” than other bottled waters, the Santa Monica City Council spent an entire meeting ferociously debating the merits of Smart Water.

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True Food Kitchen Receives ‘Real Certification’:

The United States Healthful Food Council (USHFC) announced today that True Food Kitchen’s locations, including the Santa Monica location, have become REAL Certified, a nationally recognized symbol of culinary nutrition and environmental excellence.

DCP extended

Santa Monica Downtown Community Plan Extended into 2017:

The City of Santa Monica announced a new timeline for community input and revisions to the draft Downtown Community Plan (DCP). The revised draft, released last month, was scheduled to go before Council this summer. The DCP is now set to go before Council in spring 2017.

Bill Cosby

Santa Monica Courthouse Postpones Cosby Deposition:

A judge in Santa Monica agreed today to postpone next week’s planned deposition of Bill Cosby in connection with a lawsuit filed by a woman who claims the comedian sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in 1974 when she was 15 years old.