In a move that stunned many civic leaders, the Santa Monica City Council voted this fall to suspend and overhaul the Neighborhood Organization Grant Program, cutting off funds that for years had helped the city’s seven […]
Detectives are continuing to search for two remaining suspects with additional arrests expected Two men were arrested and $50,000 worth of stolen copper wire was recovered after Los Angeles police interrupted a theft in progress […]
The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium stands as more than a shuttered venue awaiting revival—it remains an active force in global performance architecture and cultural memory, its influence reverberating through concert halls from London to Tokyo […]
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 […]
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 […]
Santa Monica operates under a council–manager system where an elected council establishes policies but delegates day-to-day operations to a professional city manager. While meant to ensure stability, this setup has resulted in staff-driven outcomes, weak […]
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 […]
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 […]
About one in five Santa Monica residents lives in a condo. Some own, some rent, some sit on the HOA finance committee, others barely know there is one. None of that matters when the ground […]
The thing about Santa Monica is that it has always believed its own marketing. Tech capital of the west side. Innovation hub. The place where startups come to die beautiful, well-funded deaths while their founders […]
Brentwood-Based Program Needs Help Delivering Meals During the Holidays Meals on Wheels West Los Angeles is urgently seeking additional volunteers to...
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