December 31, 2025
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High Noon at City Hall:

City Hall’s inability or unwillingness to comprehend, much less accept residents’ aspirations for this legendary town beach town becomes more striking every week. Last night, the City’s Planning staff presented its “Opportunities and Challenges Report” […]

Koning Eizenberg Honored with 2005 Westside Prize:

Koning Eizenberg Architecture has received a 2005 Westside Prize for the Hancock Mixed-Use project in West Hollywood. Awarded by the Westside Urban Forum, the prize recognizes projects and programs that “demonstrate excellence in city making […]

Santa Monica Book Tapped For Award:

The Southern California Booksellers Association has announced the finalists in four categories for its 2005 SCBA Book Awards, and among them is Santa Monica Beach: A Collector’s Pictorial History, by Santa Monica historian and scholar […]

City Supports Efforts to Designate VA Property for Homeless Veterans:

An alliance of homeless service organizations, elected officials and non-profit housing providers joined forces Thursday, September 22 to urge the Veterans Administration to designate property on the West Los Angeles VA campus for long-term therapeutic […]

Santa Monica Resident Shot and Killed in LA:

Jesse Becerra, 24, a Santa Monica resident, was shot and killed in the early hours of Sunday morning, September 25. as he left a party on the 4900 block of 21st Street in Los Angeles. […]

Chrysalis, SM Place form Working Partnership:

Representatives of Chrysalis and the Macerich Company gathered at the Fourth Street entrance to  Santa Monica Place last Thursday to announce a working partnership in which Santa  Monica Place will “test” Chrysalis’s  StreetWorks with a […]