Ida Danzey, SMC’s assistant dean of health sciences who has had a long and distinguished career in nursing and nursing education, was named the recipient of the first Saint John’s Health Center Chair of Excellence […]

The Santa Monica chapter of the American Red Cross added five new members to its Board of Directors at its annual meeting on Thursday, June 23. The new directors include Julie Pomfret, a financial advisor […]

Santa Monica Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB), the City’s marketing organization, released the results of its 2004 Economic Impact Report late last week. The update, conducted by Lauren Schlau Consulting and CIC Research Inc., focuses […]

Just as the inauguration of Antonio Villaraigosa on Friday as Mayor of Los Angeles was a near-perfect reflection of  L.A., the inauguration of the newest L.A. City Council member, Bill Rosendahl, Saturday morning on Venice […]

After hearing from staff and over a dozen residents and an extended discussion, the Santa Monica City Council took the City staff’s recommendation and approved the Civic Center Specific Plan (CCSP) that has been in […]

The restoration of the former Marion Davies estate at 415 Pacific Coast Highway moved a step closer at last week’s City Council meeting when the Council took the staff recommendation to authorize the City Manager […]

At Veterans for Peace Arlington West Memorial field of crosses on Sunday and Monday, the names of the Americans soldiers who have been killed in Iraq were read every hour on Sunday from 1 p.m. […]

Last Wednesday, June 22, the Santa Monica Kiwanis Club and First Federal Bank of California presented twenty-four Music Scholarship Awards to students from the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District.  Awards were presented in two […]

Abbot Kinney founded, or more accurately, conjured Venice, and co-founded Ocean Park.  The two communities are neighbors, and it’s quite possible to pass out of one and into the other without knowing it. AK (after […]

Santa Monica College adjunct English professor and  poet Carol Davis has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar’s Award to teach and lecture on Contemporary American Literature in St. Petersburg and throughout Russia. She will spend the […]