Santa Monica Conservancy will hold their Annual Meeting and Preservation Awards Saturday March 12, at the Grand Pavilion in Saint Monica Catholic Church.

With the California Coastal Commission under the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, Santa Monicans are being asked to take part in shaping Santa Monica’s coastal zone, the first Local Coastal Plan Workshop scheduled for tonight.

Don’t head to Hollywood! Street closures info from the Oscars:

A contentious awards season dominated by talk of diversity – or the lack thereof – in Hollywood will conclude tonight with the 88th Academy Awards, and with no clear front-runner in the race for best picture.

Santa Monica was home to its very own Oscar award ceremony, the Oscar Wilde Awards. Held Friday at Bad Robot, awards saw a cast of well-known faces and rising stars attend.

"Carol," the Cate Blanchett romance between a pair of women in 1950s New York, will carry a leading six nominations into today’s presentation of the 2016 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, which honor the best in independent film.

HaleArts Space will be holding an opening for their latest installment of $100 Art, Friday, March 4th. The event is part of an ongoing initiative that has helped kick-start the careers of many young and unknown artists while also creating excitement for a new generation of art collectors.

If Trey Parker and Matt Stone played the violin and piano, if Penn and Teller performed music instead of magic, and if Seth Macfarlane had a twin, they would be the brilliantly outrageous Igudesman & Joo. The duo has been billed as “the craziest, most hysterically funny music ever.”

Volunteer artists put their paint brushes to work Sunday in Santa Monica, creating a stunning mural on the wall of Bubble Beach Laundry on Main Street.