Not content with having nearly plunged Santa Monica College into bankruptcy — bucking the national tide by killing vocational education classes when other colleges were promoting them — losing 6000 FTEs (students) and spending millions […]

There was another night of hemming and hawing (not sawing) on the “hedges” issue in the hallowed chambers of the Santa Monica City Council. A highlight was the bolt of electricity that passed through the […]

Michael Rosenthal Stakeholders I have been grappling with this issue of who is and is not a stakeholder in planning the future of Santa Monica. Does a person who owns a business in Santa Monica, […]

The only thing worse than a bad plan is a bad plan that becomes a reality. The City of Santa Monica’s Civic Center Specific Plan is a bad plan that has gone inexorably forward – […]

Gordon P. Gitlen died at his home surrounded by friends and family on May 3, after a five-year battle with cancer. Gitlen was born in 1953 in Hartford, Connecticut, moved to Southern California, attended Santa […]

Ground zero for the Venice Art Walk has traditionally been the Westminster School campus in Venice, and this year, for the first time in its 25-year year history, the Walk will include an exhibit of […]

The Franchise Tax Board is mailing nearly 125,000 letters to taxpayers who applied for tax amnesty to remind them of the May 31 deadline to file past-due tax returns, and either pay the amount they […]

People Assisting The Homeless (PATH), Homestead Hospice and Shelters and Project New Hope, three nonprofit organizations dedicated to overcoming the struggles of homelessness, poverty and HIV/AIDS, have formed a new partnership to expedite and streamline […]

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced last week that it has awarded a $35,000, two–year grant to Venice Arts to support the expansion of its highly regarded photography, writing, and media arts programs […]

Arguably Santa Monica’s largest and most active neighborhood organization here and now, Friends of Sunset Park will hold its Annual General Membership Meeting on Saturday, May 28, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Mt. Olive […]