When she departed for Long Beach last week, Santa Monica’s Planning Director Suzanne Frick left a vacuum in City Hall. Frick spent 22 years in the City Planning Department and was Director of Planning and […]

As the sadistic warden said to convict Cool Hand Luke, “What we have here is failure to communicate.” Perhaps the primary lesson of the lunch period melee at Santa Monica High School ten days ago […]

Santa Monica College will stage the 16th annual Latina Youth Conference on Saturday, April 30 on campus. Designed to help young women build strong foundations for future achievements, the conference is open to young women […]

After several months of restricted hours and stop-and-go traffic, Topanga Canyon Boulevard is finally open and running free again 24 hours a day. January’s record rains undermined 100 feet of the northbound lane, a half-mile […]

JSM Construction, a Santa Monica-based apartment developer, will build a 46-unit apartment building on a   15,000 square site at 626 Broadway in Santa Monica, which it has just bought for $5 million.The seller was a […]

The City of Santa Monica issued an update Monday on “Reimagine Santa Monica Place,” the joint City and Macerich effort to elicit community opinion on the redevelopment of the mall.  The “outreach process” was initiated […]

Lori Wilson, M.D., surgical oncology fellow at the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, recently received  the Santa Monica Gems’ Business & Professional Award at the 30th Annual Black Experience Program.  The annual award […]

John Parachini, a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, has been appointed Director of the RAND Intelligence Policy Center, RAND President and CEO James A. Thomson announced late last week. Created in 2001 as […]

As more and more news media have been absorbed by a handful of mega-corporations, independent documentary films have become an increasingly significant source of news and opinion. Michael Moore’s film, Fahrenheit 911, may have made […]

In a letter addressed to the Santa Monica-Malibu Board of Education that was read aloud at last Thursday’s SMMUSD Board meeting, Santa Monica Police Chief James T. Butts summarized an interagency memo received by his […]