Seen on PCH Saturday, August 25 at 4:15 a.m. – 1100 block of Pacific Coast Highway – Officers monitoring traffic on PCH observed a car traveling northbound at a high rate of speed. They followed […]

SMCLC has served the city with its objections to the initial environmental review for Santa Monica Place. A copy of SMCLC’s letter is posted on SMCLC’s website at smclc.net. SMCLC fully supports Macerich’s plans to […]

The old Dudley Do-Right cartoon show featured a character named Snidely Whiplash. That’s right, he was the bad guy. He had a black top hat, a long black coat and a handlebar moustache. I can’t […]

Our dear friend Philomene Long passed away last week. She was a poet extraordinaire; a Venice Beat poet and someone whose every utterance was performance art. Philomene was a Lakers fan who used to come […]

Sadness with joyful understanding – loss with blissful transformation my dear friend Philomene Long passed away night before last. A sudden event – just a breath away, but then it always does comes suddenly however […]

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s Board of Education took another step toward trying to establish smaller secondary schools (high schools and/or middle schools) in the District by creating a task force to study the […]

Congressman Henry Waxman is the recipient of the first American Cancer Society CAN California Distinguished Advocacy Award. At the ceremony, held in Westwood earlier this month, Waxman, known for fighting tobacco companies in Congress, addressed […]

More than 50 opponents of the war in Iraq gathered around the Peace Pole in the courtyard of the Venice United Methodist Church at lunchtime on Thursday, August 16, to release MoveOn.org’s new report, “The […]

The selection earlier this month of SMPD Cpt. Jacqueline Seabrooks, the commanding officer of the police department’s Office of Criminal Investigations, to become the Chief of Police in the City of Inglewood will create a […]