The 17-year-old arrested in Oxnard on Friday afternoon, September 28, for the previous night’s condominium burglary and rape in the 1100 block of Princeton Street, just north of Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, appeared in […]

A Place Not to Rob Friday, September 21 at 1:40 a.m. – Star Liquor at 1929 Main Street – As the clerk was counting receipts and closing, a man walked in the store, approached the […]

1. Mayor Richard Bloom presents a Certificate of Commendation to Mary Ann Hays, President of the Board of Trustees of the Heritage Museum, at the Museum’s 30th anniversary festivities. 2.Twelve-year-old Clarissa Mejia performs with the […]

Venetians are nothing if not determined. Community activists have spent two years lobbying to get name changes for the alleys (known as Courts) that provide vehicle access to the homes that front on the Canals […]

Thousands of visitors attended the Abbot Kinney Festival on Sunday, September 30. photo by Margaret Molloy

Women make up more than half of Santa Monica’s population, yet only one sits on our seven-member City Council.   Why is that, and what can be done about it? In December 2004, the Commission on […]

We’ve all experienced it, living in Santa Monica: You desperately need a bottle of wine and there’s no place nearby to get one. And by “nearby” I guess we mean the distance one can throw […]

Save the Trees on Second and Fourth Streets Removing 50-70 old-growth trees in Santa Monica is so obviously wrong-headed on its face in what is supposedly a “green” city, that I shouldn’t need to supply […]

Was it really necessary to close Herb King down? The DEA was told (by whom?) that “Santa Monica does not want them in town,” and so they put pressure on the Main Street landlord who […]

I simply cannot let one more week go by without discussing the ficus tree situation on 2nd and 4th Streets. Besides, next week might be too late. People are apoplectic about the thought of losing […]