May 12, 2026
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APB – The Latest from SMPD:

Very Sick. On Thursday, September 29, at 11:15 p.m. officers of the Santa Monica Police Department were on routine patrol when they were requested to hasten to the parking lot at St. John’s Hospital, located […]

Events

Paint Recycling Program Debuts in Santa Monica (VIDEO):

This past Saturday, PaintCare, which is a countrywide nonprofit organization that facilitates paint recycling, hosted a drop-off event at the City of Santa Monica Yards on Michigan Avenue. Households and businesses alike were invited to […]

Car Free Friday

Santa Monica Goes Car Free this Friday: First #CarFreeFriday kicks off with car free pledges and students going big with weeklong bike and walk to school activities

This Friday, the City of Santa Monica challenges residents, employees, visitors, and students to go car free for one day. Hundreds have pledged to go car free, including students at McKinley Elementary School who will be celebrating with a “walking” school bus, bike trains, and free rides on the Big Blue Bus. The #CarFreeFriday challenge is part of the City’s GoSaMo initiative to get more people trying Santa Monica’s complete transportation network of rail, bus, bike share, and walking.

history museum

Santa Monica History Museum Offers Free Admission Day:

The Santa Monica History Museum will offer free admission on Thursday, October 13 from noon to 8pm at the Santa Monica History Museum. All are invited to visit on this day to take advantage of free admission to the museum’s six galleries.

Alzheimer’s Association’s Walk To End Alzheimer’s® Comes To Santa Monica October 9:

Women, men and families to walk through Santa Monica to raise funds for local care, support and research in the battle against Alzheimer’s disease

WHAT: The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s, a major fundraising event taking place throughout the Southland in a movement to reclaim the future for millions living with Alzheimer’s disease, comes to Santa Monica October 9.

Hot Flash columnist Barbara Bishop.

Hot Flash – The Perfect Size:

You know what really pisses me off? The fact that many in the fashion industry still think that the perfect woman is a size two and 18 years old. I look at fashion magazines, the internet, go into stores, see all these tiny sizes, and laugh about it, because a lot of the editors of those fashion magazines and the-high fashion designers are most definitely not a size two or 18 years old.

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Capturing the Overlooked:

By Atlas Novack Documentaries and films covering a topic in a realistic sense, are usually told in a two-hour narrative. Rather than trying to tell a written story in a visual format, they focus on […]