April 2, 2026
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SMPD Conducting Bike Safety Enforcement Operations Friday

The Santa Monica Police Department will be conducting Bike and Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Operations with focused enforcement efforts on primary collision factors involving motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists. The Police Department periodically identifies locations where bike […]

Pomegranates Power Santa Monica Restaurant Week

By Alysia Gray Painter If ever a fruit looked like it just sprung wholly formed from a fanciful holiday painting or tapestry or tin, it’s the pomegranate. Those wee seeds, often called jewels but more […]

Westide Beat: Santa Monica Restaurant Week

Although Restaurant Week is celebrated throughout Los Angeles, Chella takes a tour of the West side’s restaurants where the local ingredient of the year is Pomegranate. Follow along as she dines at Lago Santa Monica, […]

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Alert Police Blotter 12/25/17-12/29/17

By Tim Broughton Tread Carefully. On Monday, December 4, at 5:10 p.m. officers of the Santa Monica Police Department were in the area of Second Street and Arizona Avenue when they witnessed a person crossing […]

Holiday Bells Ring at Bergamot Station

By Sam Skopp   Saturday, Dec. 16 saw Bergamot Station Arts Complex host a communal Holiday Open House, during which all of its galleries were invited to participate in an overarching Holiday-oriented event, each in […]

Beyond the Index: Hacking Trust

By Zoë Muntaner   A panel of five judges including Santa Monica Chief of Civic Wellbeing Julie Rusk and Chief Information Officer Joseph Cevetello deliberated with three other judges to make Project Minder the winning […]