My best friend just got back from New York where he helped get his oldest son set up in the dorm at NYU for his first year of college. Wow, how exciting. Just as my […]

The Venice community in the City of Los Angeles is preparing to elect half of its Neighborhood Council this month after enacting substantial changes to its bylaws earlier this year. Not only has the “Grass […]

Bravo’s longest-running television series debuts on DVD as Shout! Factory of Santa Monica and partners NBC Universal Television Distribution and Actors Studio Inc. launch a new home video collection of the 12-time Emmy-nominated Inside The […]

The School District’s Interim Superintendent Tim Walker has been unanimously approved to become the District’s Deputy Superintendent. Walker has been serving as Interim Superintendent since Interim Superintendent Michael Matthews left the District. He also has […]

At the first of an eight-week series of breakfasts with the press, Dianne Talarico, the new Superintendent of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD), discussed a wide range of subjects. Talarico opened the August […]

As the Assistant for Community Relations in the City Manager’s office, Judy Franz worked with, informed, cajoled, listened to, and, well, assisted the many persons and organizations, in and out of city government, that make […]

The Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the Santa Monica Pier Access Improvement Project analyzes five alternatives for improvements to the pier. The project objectives are to seismically retrofit the Pier Bridge, improve pedestrian and […]

Late Sunday night (actually 12:11 a.m. on Monday, September 4), Santa Monica Police responded to the 2000 block of Wilshire Blvd. regarding a large fight. When officers arrived, a citizen said that one subject at […]

Eviction proceedings began September 1 with the service of summons and complaints in unlawful detainer lawsuits against the 37 remaining households in the once 795-unit Lincoln Place apartment complex in Venice. The tenants’ written responses […]

Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions […]