We received the following email last Saturday. Dear Editor: It has been brought to my attention that your newspaper declared me a Republican in your article on Bill Rosendahl’s swearing in.  I am not now […]

Santa Monica attorney Carol Sobel, has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Venice Beach Free Speech Zone activists and artists. According to Sobel, who announced the filing at the junction of Ocean Front Walk […]

The 108 homeowners on a toney West Malibu beach face collective fines that may exceed $400,000 as a result of a lawsuit filed by the California Coastal Commission last week. The Broad Beach homeowners hired […]

Part I Redevelopment In March of 1972, Santa Monica City Council decided to begin an urban renewal project that would convert the two blocks between Broadway and Colorado and Second and Fourth Streets in downtown […]

Pooreum Yu, 8, and his sister Deum, 5, from Seoul, South Korea on the Santa Monica Beach.

Venice’s literary history is long, storied and honorable. Beyond Baroque Literary Foundation in Venice has been a kind of home base for writers – established and new —– and readers, since its founding. Its workshops, […]

Over the years, many motion pictures have been shot, all or in part, in Santa Monica – ranging from one of Charlie Chaplin’s first one-reelers to such recent releases as The Story of Us and […]

Rock/Pop   Roy Book Binder, Sons of Never Wrong at McCabe’s, 7/8, 8pm.   Stephane Wrembel Trio at Amoeba Music, 7/7, 7/8, 7/11, 7pm.  Wrembel “celebrates the tradition and virtuoso skills of Gypsy Jazz with […]

Over the years, many motion pictures have been shot, all or in part, in Santa Monica – ranging from one of Charlie Chaplin’s first one-reelers to such recent releases as The Story of Us and […]

What could be causing the recent box office slide? Attendance is down 10 percent since last year and even the blockbusters War of the Worlds and Batman Begins couldn’t bring it back to where it […]