Last week’s Council meeting was particularly significant, but people who wanted to see the replay on CityTV (channel 20) were doomed. There was no sound for one entire replay and half of the another. And, […]

By now, the seemingly endless round of hearings on the revision of the land use and circulation elements of the General Plan has ritual aspects. City planners and their team of consultants prepare a variation […]

After years of legal wrangling, the historic Canyon Gas Station on Entrada has been preserved and is finally expected to reappear in the summer of 2006— in its new incarnation— as the architectural office of […]

Venice Arts has conducted photography workshops in neighborhoods all across the United States, and next week it will send a team halfway around the world to Khayelitsha, an impoverished township in Cape Town, to teach […]

Last Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Bono and Bobby Shriver, a Santa Monica City Councilman, announced the formation of a new company, Product RED, which they described as “an economic initiative […]

Santa Monica Police Lieutenant Frank Fabrega was recently appointed to a two year term on the Los Angeles Regional Council of the American Cancer Society, a volunteer board representing a spectrum of professionals who oversee […]

On Monday, February 13, 150 volunteers will converge on the Canyon Charter School grounds to frame, in one day, a Habitat for Humanity house. Canyon is the first elementary school in the United States to […]

Last Tuesday, the Santa Monica City Council requested City staff to develop some means of soliciting further data from the public on what the goals of the City’s revision of its land use and circulation […]

About 120 people gathered at the Sheraton Delphina Hotel on Pico Boulevard last Saturday to begin the process of designing a “20-year Master Facilities Plan” for the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD). Superintendent John […]

(counter clockwise starting at top) Pacific Park roller coaster on Santa Monica Pier, Kathleen Hernandez, Topanga, at Arlington West, Arlington West, museum from pier, Break Dancer, Art Exhibit, Nomadic Museum