The Treesavers organization recently sent an e-mail to members of Santa Monica’s City Council and other City officials to express their concerns about the way the City is going about establishing an Urban Forest Task […]

The Venice Beach Music Festival 4 took place on Saturday & Sunday, August 8 & 9. The two-day festival featured rock, soul & psychedelic indie bands. Venice favorites Sugarbitch (funk/soul/rock) performed on Sunday afternoon.

New air conditioning equipment will soon be installed on the roof of Santa Monica’s historic City Hall. But the Landmarks Commission at its August 10 meeting, postponed granting a Certificate of Appropriateness for the planned […]

Santa Monica has been looking forward to having a light rail in the City by 2015 but controversy about the placement of the project’s maintenance facility has been raging for months. The controversy began after […]

I am so happy my mother was able to campaign for me in my first race for public office when I ran for city council in 2004. She loved campaigning here. Door to door, the […]

The first of four concerts in the 4th annual free Jazz on the Lawn series at City Hall, sponsored by the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division, kicked-off on Sunday, August 8th. Upright Cabaret, […]

Last Saturday, a sold out audience at Santa Monica High School’s Barnum Hall listened intently as author and co-founder of the Central Asia Institute (CAI), Greg Mortenson, explained his innovative approach of building peace through […]

At 9:30 a.m. on Election Day, the library at Will Rogers Learning Community opened as a polling place for the fifth graders’ “mock election” for President of the United States. Students filed into the library […]

The gardener sprays down the windows on a beautiful September afternoon at the Venice home of Victoria Duffy Hopper. This late in the year the sun is at its zenith in the sky – a […]

Longtime L.A. Westsider and now Denver resident Jude DeLorca filed the following dispatch from the Democratic National Convention Tuesday evening, August 26. Santa Monica’s Wendy Wanderman and Venice’s Victoria Duffy Hopper are among the delegates […]