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Pomegranates Power Santa Monica Restaurant Week

By Alysia Gray Painter If ever a fruit looked like it just sprung wholly formed from a fanciful holiday painting or tapestry or tin, it’s the pomegranate. Those wee seeds, often called jewels but more […]

Obscure Holiday Movies

By Whitney Scott Bain   When people think of Christmas and Holiday movies their thoughts go to “It’s A Wonderful Life,” Christmas Vacation,” “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” the many variations […]

SAMO Edges Ahead

Santa Monica High School, Friday Dec. 15 saw Santa Monica High School (SAMO) host Pacific Palisades High School in a nonleague basketball game, winning 75-69 to improve their record to 5-4.

Fire Ruling Has Huge Effect on Utilities

By Tom Elias Under intense political pressure at the same time bone-dry Santa Ana and Sundowner winds propelled unchecked wildfires across Southern California in early December, the California Public Utilities Commission handed down perhaps its […]

Bullet Journaling at Santa Monica Public Library January 8

Santa Monica Public Library presents Bullet Journaling on Monday, January 8, 2018, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the Main Library’s Multipurpose Room, 601 Santa Monica Blvd. Bring organization and creativity into your life with bullet journaling. A Bullet Journal is […]

Westide Beat: Santa Monica Restaurant Week

Although Restaurant Week is celebrated throughout Los Angeles, Chella takes a tour of the West side’s restaurants where the local ingredient of the year is Pomegranate. Follow along as she dines at Lago Santa Monica, […]

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Alert Police Blotter 12/25/17-12/29/17

By Tim Broughton Tread Carefully. On Monday, December 4, at 5:10 p.m. officers of the Santa Monica Police Department were in the area of Second Street and Arizona Avenue when they witnessed a person crossing […]