The Main Speaker

On Thursday, June 2, at 12:50 p.m. officers of the Santa Monica Police Department were called out to the Sears Department Store, located at 302 Colorado Ave. in order to investigate a report of a theft involving a set of loudspeakers. When the officers arrived at the location they spoke with the loss prevention agents from Sears who told them that a man had entered the store, picked up the loudspeakers and run out of the store without paying for them. The loss prevention agents gave the officers a detailed description of the suspect and the officers went in search of this man.

American Friends of Tel Aviv University, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting Israel’s largest institution of higher learning, is hosting its second annual IDEAS Los Angeles Conference, focusing on the future of digital technology in media, entertainment, lifestyle and health, June 15-16, at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica.

CHIPPER: Meet Chipper! His personality shines by his moniker. Once look at Chipper and you will share his smile! He is an 18-month-old Chihuahua mix who is looking for his new best friend. Could that be you?

Saturday saw hundreds of young baseball players take to Santa Monica’s Los Amigos Park for the finals of this season’s PONY baseball league.

The annual Nick Gabaldón Day was held on Santa Monica’s Bay Street Beach at Tower 20 Saturday, with local environmental advocate Heal the Bay helping to celebrate Los Angeles’ diverse community of ocean lovers. A coalition of groups organized the day as a salute to Nick Gabaldón, a 1950s waterman of African American and Latino heritage, known as L.A.’s first surfer of color.

A sleep startup that launched two years ago is bringing its traveling Nap Tour to Santa Monica Place Sunday, so you can take a load of your feet and nap from noon to 8pm – why not?

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is beginning major facility improvements at both Malibu High School (MHS) and Juan Cabrillo Elementary School (JCES) this summer. The work is funded through Measures BB and ES.

Whew! The most actively contested California presidential primary election in decades is over. Candidates Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernard Sanders were ubiquitous for a month, logging thousands of miles and dozens of rallies. New voters registered by the hundreds of thousands.

As the LGBT community in Los Angeles gets ready to celebrate nearly half a century of civil rights progress during this weekend’s Pride Festival, most states across the country do not provide any protection for their LGBT residents in critical areas of life, such as employment, housing and qualification for loans.

Six Santa Monica teenagers will be awarded the highest rank one can earn in the Boy Scouts of America on Sunday June 12.

Parker Racie Furlong, Ronald JJ Hawthorne Harris-Gavin, Aiden Jeffrey Metz, Matthew Lee Morawiec, Sasha Steffes, and Eli Warshauer will be honored with the rank of Eagle Scout at the Troop 2 Eagle Court of Honor to be held at Camp Josepho.