Mt. Olive Lutheran Church Santa Monica and the String Project Los Angeles will host “Love Orlando, Music Heals,” an evening of jazz, classical and contemporary music from great artists to support “The Center” in Orlando, Florida, on Thursday, July 7.

Letter to the Editor: Like so many, I am deeply saddened and shocked by the pending closure of Santa Monica’s YWCA on 14th near Pico…

A local surf school is partnering with the Braille Institute to help students experience the thrill of the waves with surf lessons.

Our Santa Monica Mid City Neighborhood is home to the City’s designated Healthcare District. This includes St. John’s Hospital and UCLA Hospital & Medical Center. St. John’s Hospital will be adding 800,000 square feet and 3,000 new parking spots over the next two decades.

The 10th Annual Santa Monica 4th of July Parade is almost here, and it’s not too late to get involved.

Founded and produced by the Ocean Park Association (OPA), the parade is a highlight on Santa Monica’s calendar and draws thousands to Main Street as it winds its way south from Pico to Marine and then Barnard Way.

OPCC (formerly Ocean Park Community Center ) was honored Wednesday as a Nonprofit of the Year during the California Nonprofits Day ceremony at the State Capitol in Sacramento. OPCC was selected by Assembly member Richard Bloom as an “exceptional nonprofit organization in his community.”

Through October at Santa Monica’s Tongva Park, a number of cultural events for families will be held as part of a “Family Saturdays” series. To kick off these events, award-winning musician and composer Martin Espino held an interactive workshop and demonstration of indigenous American instruments for families visiting Tongva Park throughout the morning this past Saturday to a rapt audience of children and their families.

Nat Trives, who also goes by “Mr. Santa Monica,” has accomplished a lot in his 81 years – as a community advocate, who serves on many nonprofit boards, as a professor at Santa Monica College, and as a former mayor and police officer of Santa Monica. He also recently celebrated his 60th wedding anniversary – an impressive personal accomplishment.

OpEd: Anyone from my generation might express a warm feeling for George Harrison’s song “Here Comes the Sun.” First of all, it’s a tune from the “quiet Beatle” that is in many ways perfect in its simplicity: It’s been a long cold lonely winter and now… here comes the sun. The sun in the song is the arrival of better days and even a new clarity about whatever it is that has been troubling you and making you feel blue; perhaps clearing away a fog of depression, making things warm and right again.