While advertising industry insiders predict a dismal 2010 for marketing agencies, The Phelps Group in Santa Monica is expanding. The 29-year-old firm practices “integrated marketing communications,” offering the combined services of an advertising agency, public […]

A review, discussion, and public comment on the recently issued Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) on the Land Use and Circulation Element (LUCE) of the City’s General Plan occupied most of the City Council’s attention […]

The City Council’s mid-year budget review meeting was enlivened on Tuesday, January 26, by dozens of people seeking increased support for youth violence prevention and by a discussion of filling the vacancy created by the […]

The biggest news at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting was not what happened, but what did not happen. The Broad Foundations’ proposed contemporary art museum had been on the agenda for the Council’s regular January […]

The night that Mayor Ken Genser died, there was a retirement party underway for Santa Monica Police Captain Alex Padilla, celebrating his 30 years of service to the city he grew up in. This reporter […]

The night that Mayor Ken Genser died, there was a retirement party underway for Santa Monica Police Captain Alex Padilla, celebrating his 30 years of service to the city he grew up in. This reporter […]

Santa Monica Mayor Ken Genser died Saturday, January 9, after being hospitalized since October 30 “due to multiple complications,” according to a statement released by City Manager Lamont Ewell. Funeral services are private, but a […]

Even before the first City Council meeting of 2009, Mayor Pro Tem Pam O’Connor, also a director of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was presented with L.A, County Board of Supervisors’ first-ever Green […]

The newly renamed Santa Monica History Museum is well underway in building out the 5,000 square feet of raw space that has been waiting for it on the ground floor of the main library building […]

Santa Monica was named the top digital city in America for cities with populations of 75,000 to 124,999 by e.Republic’s Center for Digital Government and Digital Communities magazine. Although Santa Monica has held this title […]