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Varied Landscape by Silvia Wagensberg (the buildings).

Hale Arts Opening Tonight for New Group Show:

Hale Arts Space is opening the invitation to a reception of their latest group show featuring works by Silvia Wagensberg and Adam Zaff. The event will be held this evening, July 8, from 5 – 8 p. m.

Families made up the majority of Saturday’s crowd.

Pico Farmer’s Market All Abuzz: Fun for the Family

Every Saturday from 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., one of Santa Monica’s four farmers markets is held at Virginia Avenue Park. Known as the Pico Farmers Market due to its central Pico district location, families from all over town gather for fresh produce, plants, coffee, prepared foods, music and more

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APB: Baggage Claim:

On Saturday, July 2, at 4:45 p.m. officers of the Santa Monica Police Department were called out to the Nordstrom Department Store, located at 220 Broadway, in order to investigate a pair of suspected thieves.

OpEd: "…with liberty and justice for – Uh, hand me that eraser…":

Oh, Republican Congress. Why does it often seem that you would be much happier quitting the business on the floor of the House and simply driving around in Professor Brown’s DeLorean from “Back to the Future?” Is it because you find it such hard work to reverse social progress and come up with terms such as “protecting religious freedom” so that you can grab the hands of time and spin them wildly back 50 years in a counter-clockwise direction?

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Pier Concerts Return Tonight + Transit Options:

The first Twilight Concert Series event of the 2016 season is on tonight with Mayer Hawthorne on the bill. The free series is expected to bring thousands of people to Santa Monica on Thursday evenings through September 8.

Lynne Pedersen, founder of Santa Monica-based nonprofit One Recovery.

Teens Turn to Surf Art for Recovery:

Santa Monica teens in crisis are being given a helping hand this weekend, with a celebrity-studded Surf Art event raising funds for the opening of a local youth recovery center