Santa Monica launched its Green Business Certification Program on Wednesday, October 25.  This is a collaborative project of the City of Santa Monica, Chamber of Commerce, Convention & Visitors Bureau and Sustainable Works to certify […]

Four shootings in the course of one week prompted Santa Monica Police Chief James T. Butts, Jr. on Sunday to commit “an overwhelming police presence” so that “[t]he cycle of violence that has developed over […]

The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday, May 30, voted 8-5 to reject Councilmember Rosendahl’s motion to direct the City Planning Department to record the conditions of the tentative tract map for the planned development […]

A bill now pending in the California State Assembly to require Santa Monica Airport to record operation times for certain stages of taxi/idle, take offs and landings comes to the Assembly floor in Sacramento this […]

Santa Monica Police Chief James T. Butts, Jr., who has served the City in that capacity for 15 years, announced his retirement from the department. In a May 24 memorandum to “All Personnel,” the Chief […]

The Fairmont Miramar Hotel at Wilshire Blvd. and Ocean Ave. has appointed Jean-Claude Plihon as executive chef to oversee culinary operations at the property’s restaurant venues and 25,000 square feet of banquet space. Plihon is […]

The potentially historic mediation sessions concerning the future of Lincoln Place – a 35-acre apartment complex in Venice built in 1950 in an open, garden-like setting – have ended without an agreement among the parties, […]

Nancy Aossey, President & CEO of International Medical Corps (IMC), a Santa Monica-based global humanitarian aid organization, was named non-profit CEO of the Year by the “Women Making a Difference” program of the Los Angeles […]

By Eugene Pidgeon I have never been one for crowds. Perhaps this is because as a full grown adult male… my world dead ends at exactly 51 inches. That is, 4 feet 3 inches. In […]