October 27, 2025
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SM.a.r.t Column: Council Cans the Civic

What were they thinking? On Wednesday morning at 12:30 am on October 15th, we were blindsided when the Council voted four (Jesse, Caroline, Dan, Natalya) to three (Lana, Barry, Ellis) not to extend RPG’s exclusive […]

SM.a.r.t Column: CIVIC AUDITORIUM REBORN

The process of restoring the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is definitely moving forward. As you can imagine, there are a complex series of steps to complete a multi-million dollar project of this scale. RPG (Revitalization […]

SM.a.r.t Column: The Faded Halo

Santa Monica has always possessed a talent for self-presentation. The city markets itself as a peculiar kind of coastal utopia—a place where palm trees grow in neat rows, bicycle paths unfurl like moral imperatives, and […]

SM.a.r.t Column: Why The Past?

When you walk down a street in Santa Monica, you can feel it. That quiet hum of history that lives in the old buildings: the Craftsman bungalows tucked behind flowering jacarandas, the Art Deco storefronts […]