January 28, 2026
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Buy Local Santa Monica Unwrapped This Holiday Season:

By Jennifer Taylor / Buy Local Santa Monica Committee Chair This holiday season, as you’re filling the stockings, lighting the candles, shopping for last minute gifts and preparing for festive meals, please buy local. When […]

Santa Monica’s New Tourism Marketing District Approved:

Very few initiatives pass through the Santa Monica City Council as smoothly as the proposal to establish the Santa Monica Tourism Marketing District (SMTMD). Yet, despite a process that began in October, the SMTMD is […]

Taking Pride In Curriculum: Letter To The Editor:

Dear Editor, All my children were lucky to have escaped long ago from Santa Monica’s schools after grade 6. Why so? Well, stepping out of Von’s Pavilions supermarket this afternoon, I looked across the street […]

Pacific Park tops its iconic Inkie entryway structure with Southern California’s largest Santa Claus hat.

Inkie Topped With Santa Hat On Santa Monica Pier:

A 150-pound red Santa hat with 40 feet of material, including the white trim on the brim and oversized pompom, has been placed on top of Pacific Park’s loveable mascot Inkie. Inkie’s Santa Hat is […]