For nearly forty years, Santa Monica has largely resisted one thing that much of Los Angeles eventually embraced: billboards.  That wasn’t an accident.  The Third Street Promenade became successful because it felt different. It wasn’t […]

By Charles Andrews THE GLOVES ARE OFF I wrote in my previous CURIOUS CITY column. But what happens when you take the gloves off? Bare knuckles bashing? Could be. The expression usually means things are […]

Three months ago, this column asked a simple question about the Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project: Where, exactly, would the money come from? The City’s own Airport Conversion Project identifies “Balance Economics” as one of […]

The Part One article showed Santa Monica’s permitting delay as self-inflicted; Part Two, that the bill has shed its exemptions, leading some to think Coastal Commission considers dropping its opposition. So our worries on AB […]

Under public pressure, AB 1740 has shed almost everything that alarmed Santa Monica — and the Coastal Commission has dropped its opposition. But two things survived the retreat, and one of them is statewide. The […]

By CHARLES ANDREWS THE GLOVES ARE OFF I’m a very patient man.  Always have been. I have written for publication since high school, so I have a pretty good idea of what it takes to […]