The Fulfillment Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping promising but economically disadvantaged students graduate from high school and go on to college, honored Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer at its annual STARS 2005 benefit […]

A Gingerbread City will be unveiled at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel’s first annual “Meet Me Under The Fig Tree” community gathering on Sunday, December 4, and will be on display for the balance of the […]

The City of Santa Monica Community and Cultural Services Department;s grand re-opening of Virginia Avenue Park is designed to “salute the creativity and diversity of one of Santa Monica’s most vital neighborhoods with music, dance, […]

The Santa Monica Democratic Club will host a presentation by Susan Lerner, Executive Director of the “California Clean Money Campaign,” this evening at 7 p.m. at St. Anne’s Community Room, at the corner of 20th […]

After introducing P. Lamont Ewell, Santa Monica’s new City Manager, at its November 16 meeting, the City Council and others lauded outgoing City Manager Susan E. McCarthy, who will retire on December 8. McCarthy, who […]

About 2,100 people gathered in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium last Thursday afternoon for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner that included the traditional turkey, mashed potatoes and green beans and some untraditional additions, such as “makeovers” […]

To mark the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white man which led to the historic bus boycott that, in turn, ignited the […]

Last week, the embattled tenants of Lincoln Place in Venice took their long-running struggle to save their homes to the streets, and to City Hall – in a November 21 letter to Los Angeles Mayor […]

A Lincoln Place resident since 1974, Lucy Siam, 77, (r. foreground) joined other tenants at last week’s protest of evictions. Tenants planned to erect a tent city in front of L.A. City Hall this morning, […]

Santa Monica College will open an exhibit of photographs by mentor student Sachi Kato on Monday, November 28. Titled “Tranquility,” the exhibit features moody and surrealistic still lifes and portraits that are shot on film […]