After an extensive effort by residents of Santa Monica Canyon, the Los Angeles City Council recently approved Cultural Monument Status for the historic Canyon Gas station, according to George Wolfberg, chair of the Santa Monica […]

Each year, there’s that golden moment, when freshmen and seniors alike gaze out into the Samohi tennis courts, eyeing the construction of our beloved grad night “ocean liner.” The huge ship, rebuilt anually for each […]

The 2005 AIDS/LifeCycle ride came to a triumphant conclusion Saturday afternoon, as participants arrived on the VA grounds in Westwood Saturday afternoon.Over 2,000 cyclists made the seven-day, 585-mile ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, […]

Santa Monica Alternative School House (SMASH) has issued an invitation to the entire community to attend its annual carnival and fundraiser Saturday afternoon, June 18, from noon to 5 p.m. The family festival will feature […]

Santa Monica’s premier pub, Ye Olde Kings Head, hasbeen sold by Phil and Ruth Elwell to Paul Boetcher and Donal Tavey, operators of Busby’s in West Los Angeles.“We’ve both shed a few tears over it,” […]

Lydia Sleeper, a fifth grade student at the Canyon Charter School, topped the 1,000 box mark for cookie sales for the second year in a row. Her total of 1,151 boxes sold makes her one […]

We obviously lost our heads last week. There we were – with two great photographs of two local heroes so we decided to salute them. That was cool. It was all cool. Except we identified […]

The City of Santa Monica Department of  Community and Cultural Services will celebrate the opening of The Cove skatepark on Friday June 17 from 5 to 8 p.m. Located in Memorial Park near the corner […]

A last-minute effort at Monday’s Santa Monica Landmarks Commission meeting to save the RAND “Z” building at 1700 Main Street resulted in the possibility that the Commission will communicate its feelings about the building’s historic […]

More students than ever, about 600 out of a class of 1100, put on the traditional caps and gowns and marched into Corsair Field for the 75th Santa Monica College commencement ceremonies late yesterday to […]