March 31, 2026
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SM.a.r.t Opinion: Our Data, Our Privacy Part 3

    In recent articles we stated that the City of Santa Monica gathers data about its citizens (and obtains it from other sources too), and suggested ways to protect that information, with oversight from […]

Pro Tips: Yallwest Writers Speak Out

Santa Monica’s 4th annual youth literary event, Yallwest, took place Saturday May 5 with thousands of young book fans packing Santa Monica High School eager to meet their literary heroes and participate in panels and […]

Get Swimming! Santa Monica’s Pool Options

The City of Santa Monica is promoting its swim options for summer: the Annenberg Community Beach House, the Santa Monica Swim Center and the Lincoln Middle School Pool, “in addition to public aquatics events for […]

Santa Monica Beach Clean Up Saturday, May 12

Project Save our Surf, a nonprofit supporting clean water and oceans, will host a beach cleanup on Saturday, May 12th at 11 am-1 pm at Life Guard Tower 28 in Santa Monica. The address is 2600 […]

Beverly Hills Bar Association Honors Entertainment Lawyer

A capacity crowd of 350 people celebrated Cliff Gilbert-Lurie, Senior Partner at Ziffren Brittenham LLP, one of the premier transactional attorneys in the entertainment industry who was honored as the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s (BHBA) […]

New Will Rogers Learning Community Principal Appointed

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education approved the appointment of Ryan T. Bourke as the new Will Rogers Learning Community principal at its May 3, 2018 regular board meeting. Bourke joins SMMUSD […]

SMPL Presents: From Barbed Wire to Boogie Woogie

Swing in the Japanese American Internment Camps As part of the 2018 Santa Monica Reads community reading program, Rusty Frank presents Barbed Wire to Boogie Woogie: Swing in the Japanese American Internment Camps, on Saturday, May 19, […]