The tenth annual Main Street Summer SOULstice festival on June 27 took place under warm and sultry skies. Although it lacked a few features of past celebrations (a scavenger hunt with prizes from local businesses […]

Although Sunday, June 27 is almost a week after the real Summer Solstice (first day of summer), here in Santa Monica the Summer SOULstice is celebrated at the end of June, with a daylong festival […]

Santa Monica residents who were lucky enough to look east shortly after sunset on Saturday, June 26 were given a free treat in the form of fireworks. For those who didn’t know, the unexplained visual […]

California is a-buzz with peach fever, as the summer fruit makes its way into California farmers’ marke: Which local restaurant could create the best dishes using peaches from locally grown farmers in the form of […]

Finn McCool’s Irish pub, in association with The L.A. Irish Film Festival, held the first Bloomsday event in Santa Monica, a commemoration held worldwide on June 16th in pubs and restaurants throughout Dublin, as well […]

The 18th annual Juneteenth celebration in Santa Monica was a cultural event not to be missed over the weekend at Virginia Avenue Park on Pico Boulevard. With great food, great music, great culture, and great […]

If opera singer Rod Gilfry’s booming baritone is the best thing about a thoroughly charming production of “South Pacific” at the Ahmanson, Carmen Cusack’s sprightly rendering of a Southern girl far from home is a […]