Along with architects, builders, designers and landscape architects, the public is invited to attend the second annual Alternative Building Materials & Design Expo on Wednesday, May 11, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the […]

Blogs went bigtime this week with the launch of www.HuffintonPost.com on Monday. According to its founder, columnist and erstwhile California gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington, “The Post is a new Internet publishing venture that will combine […]

It has been suggested that the following paragraph, which appeared in a news story in last week’s Mirror, was misleading. “A recent RAND Corporation study showed that education has categorically fallen behind police, fire, corrections […]

Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center will hold its biannual fundraiser, “The Gala 2005: Building for the Future,” on Saturday, May 14, at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. The black-tie-optional event will begin with […]

Former Santa Monica Mayor Michael Feinstein proposed the formation of a Santa Monica County at a University of Venice symposium on “Venice Self-Government: Strategies and Alternatives” last month. Feinstein noted that if Santa Monica and […]

Don’t laugh at me Don’t call me names Don’t get your pleasure From my pain In God’s eyes we’re all the same — Excerpt, from the song “Don’t Laugh at Me” by Steve Seskin & […]

The demolition of a house at 808 Adelaide Place will proceed as planned — thanks to a group of neighbors who appeared at Monday night’s Santa Monica Landmarks Commission meeting to speak in favor of […]

Last Thursday, School District officials and the newly formed Unity Coalition presented members of the Board of Education with plans to eliminate the conflicts that sparked the melee and subsequent lockdown at Santa Monica High […]

Last Wednesday Santa Monica’s Planning Commission heard a presentation on the City’s Sustainable City Plan (SCP) and its relevance to the City’s General Plan. Dean Kubani, a Senior Analyst in the City’s Environmental Programs Division, […]

Los Angeles artist and environmental activist John Quigley spent Earth Day 2004 coordinating the annual Earth Day celebration on the Third Street Promenade. On Earth Day 2005, he was at the North Pole, organizing another […]