By Trisha Bennett Venice celebrated its birthday with a pre-4th of July sing-a-long throughout Venice on Wednesday, July 3. Local businesses came together and spruced up the famous Venice sign with red, white, and blue […]
Hoping it may help the City address gridlock and meet its ambitious goal of no net new PM peak hour vehicle trips, Santa Monica will be partnering with Hertz to try out a pilot car […]
Santa Monica’s bus system is about to have a makeover worth about $7.2 million. The City’s Big Blue Bus (BBB) will demolish and reconstruct 313 bus shelters and 1,244 “extended network signs” thanks to the […]
Yosemite National Park is nature at its best with nearly 1,200 square miles of deep valleys, grand meadows, and ancient giant sequoias. It is roughly the size of the State of Rhode Island, with over […]
A 39-year-old homeless man was arrested in Santa Monica on Friday, June 21 after informing police officers he had falsely been robbed at gunpoint. At 8:50 pm officers of the Santa Monica Police Department responded […]
Once every six months, (summer and fall) my friend Sarah and I venture to Barney’s in Beverly Hills to work with the top New York runway makeup artists from Nars Cosmetics. Dalbert, the sweet counter […]
The coastal cuisine of the Southern states is now being served up at Willie Jane – a new seasonal California restaurant on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice that pays homage to the Lowcountry. The owners […]
By Peter Barent Lewis Emmy award winning actor and noted activist Ed Asner, along with American manufacturing executives and guests, attended the 2013 Made in the USA Hall of Fame Awards Dinner at Shutters on […]
Behind a discreet orange door on 19th Street in the Mid City neighborhood is the City of Santa Monica’s new CityTV studio, which produces more than 80 half-hour shows each 10-week season on Channel 16. […]
For the seventh year in a row, the Santa Monica community came together for the Ocean Park Association’s highly successful 4th of July Parade along Main Street. The parade, which this year had the theme […]
Congress secures its most comprehensive housing reform in three decades. Congressional bipartisan legislation designed to confront the nation’s severe housing...
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In a post following the 2025 Fire, he wrote that he became an artist because of “how beautiful I found...
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