July 28, 2026
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MEDIA: The Food Blog Revolution:

In case you haven’t noticed, the place for foodies is most definitely online, where amateur chefs throughout the world have attracted thousands of viewers who check into their sites daily to see what they’re cooking. […]

Shopping on Black Friday:

It seems like the Friday after Thanksgiving has been a favorite shopping day for bargain hunters since Santa Claus gave hammer and nails to his toy-crafting elves. Once the turkey is down the hatch, many […]

Holidays in Santa Monica:

To many, the notion of the holidays in balmy 70+ degree weather by the seaside would seem to fly in the face of time-honored traditions of cold weather and all its accoutrements: parkas, gloves, snow-covered […]

Zsa Zsa Gabor And Husband Prince Frederic Feed The Needy:

For the sixteenth year, Zsa Zsa Gabor and husband Prince Frederic von Anhalt purchased 300 Thanksgiving turkeys at Albertson’s Market in Santa Monica for the Vera Davis McClendon Youth & Family Center in Venice. The […]

Community Announcements / Ongoing Events:

Academic Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (AFICE) is looking for individuals to work as Community Representatives, who will find host families for international students and will work with them and their families. Call Anne Ring, […]

Music Highlights:

November 28 Jed’s Dead, Blue Cube @ Rusty’s Surf Ranch November 29 Jackson Browne and Friends In Concert @ Santa Monica Civic Music For The Road, Chime @ Rusty’s Surf Ranch Tom Russell @ McCabe’s […]

Theater:

The Bourgeois Gentilhomme, by Moliere, translated and adapted by Frederique Michel and Charles Duncombe, through December 21, 8pm Fridays-Saturdays, 5:30pm Sundays, $10-$20, Sundays are pay-what-you-can, City Garage, 13401/2 4th St., citygarage.org. Desperate Writers, play about […]

Exhibits:

Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration, through January 25, Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., LA, 310.440. 4500. Bettina Brendel, art exhibit, through December 13, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, SMC Performing Arts Center, […]

This Week:

Last Chance Faces, oil paintings by Alfred Benjamin, through November 30, UnUrban Coffeehouse, 3301 Pico Blvd., 310.315.0056. Henry Hopper, paintings, through December 3, Frank Pictures Gallery, Bergamot Station, 310.828.0211. Robert Glenn Ketchum, exhibit of environmental […]

What’s Hot:

Dedication of New Quad and HSS Building, December 3, 3pm, free, Santa Monica College, 1900 Pico Blvd., 310.434.4303. The culmination of two years of construction, SMC’s new Quad, opened last August, and the new Humanities […]