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Inhibitions on the outs
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CITYWIDE — Parents may find themselves shielding their childrens’ eyes this Halloween, not from scary goblins or cackling witches, but rather the racy costumes sure to grace the streets of Santa Monica.
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Homelessness looms for renters
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VENICE — A pair of aged eyes peeked out tentatively from behind a screened window at the Lincoln Place apartments. Frieda Marlin, 82, was in hiding. She was anticipating that a sheriff’s deputy would serve her eviction papers, forcing her out of the apartment she’s called home for 25 years.
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Santa Monica rejuvenated
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CITY HALL — Bike paths, solar power and an aquarium are among the list of upcoming Santa Monica additions included in the $2.5 million the City Council is expected to spend tonight.
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Cheers to local bartender
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SM BEACH — Everybody knows T.J. Sorady.
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Beach pollution declines
THE BEACH — A 5-foot-long mountain lion carcass, a handgun and a sewing loom.
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Local advocate fights for NRDC
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SECOND STREET — Melissa Lin Perrella is a voice of the people.
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Officials have designs on new digs
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CITY HALL — Some Santa Monica officials will be moving into new digs, the city’s homeless will be dining inside and jailers will be keeping a better watch of prisoners if City Council approves its nearly $1.3 million spending agenda tonight.
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‘Pedal error’ to blame
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DOWNTOWN LA — George Russell Weller’s attorney began making the case for “pedal error” in court on Friday, claiming a rare phenomenon in which panic and fear causes a driver to hit the accelerator rather than the brake is to blame for the then-86-year-old driver plowing through a crowded Farmer’s Market three years ago, killing 10 people and injuring dozens more.
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A moveable feast
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REED PARK — St. Monica’s Parish went to the dogs, as well as the cats, on Sunday when nearly 50 animals were brought, toted and shepherded to the Church in order to be blessed or cured of a variety of animal ills.
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City workers living it up
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CITY HALL — City Council is expected to re-up tonight with a union representing more than 850 clerks, technicians and trade professionals, providing the city workers with a 4-percent cost-of-living increase in each of the next two years.
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$50K retribution granted for local grocery workers
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WEST LA — Solace came to some local supermarket workers early Monday morning, when a federal judge approved a plea agreement ordering the Ralphs grocery store chain to pay $70 million to settle claims that it illegally hired locked-out workers during the highly publicized Southland supermarket strike of two years ago.
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Getting off on the latest fashion ‘Project Runway’
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There are many things that turn Vincent Libretti on — freedom, diversity, and of course, fashion.
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Rolling on home more smoothly
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CITY HALL — City Council members are expected to spend more than $238,000 tonight on renovations to bolster a number of homes in the city and the quality of the roads that lead there.
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Keeping it reel for four decades
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MONTANA AVE. — Kevin Thomas is a wise guy.
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Prose and Kahn: Lives redeemed
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MONTANA AVE. — If Santa Claus were like other celebrities and try to lay low in Santa Monica, he might look a lot like Kenny Kahn. With frosty white hair and hearty laughter that can fill a room, Kahn is the kind of guy who likes to spread cheer wherever he goes, telling jokes and teasing others about life’s travails.
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A day in the life at the American Film Market
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OCEAN AVENUE — You never know who you might bump into at the American Film Market.
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Brothers regret turn in ‘Borat’
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SM COURTHOUSE — Two fraternity brothers from the University of South Carolina have lost ‘respek’ for comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
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Council expected to shell out cash to clean pier pond
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CITY HALL — A pond of tainted runoff water that has been collecting beneath the Santa Monica Pier will likely receive some attention tonight, with City Council expected to approve a $20,000 analysis of the environmental hazard.
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Alva is still carving out a niche in skating circles
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LITTLE ETHIOPIA — When Tony Alva needs to ground himself, he jumps on his skateboard and rolls home to Santa Monica.
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City braces for some wasteful spending
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CITY HALL — Santa Monica garbage may soon be whisked away in style, that is if the City Council approves the purchase of four new refuse trucks as part of a $1.4 million spending plan tonight.
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Where to mingle when you’re single
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CITYWIDE — There you are, quietly sipping your vodka martini and minding your own business when it happens. He’s Mr. Rico Suave, dressed in an overpriced suit and all-too flashy tie. He motions his finger towards the bartender, indicating a fresh round of drinks for the both of you.
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An ultimate fighting chance
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CIVIC CENTER As recently as the early 2000s, mixed martial arts (MMA) was considered too brutal for civilized society and, consequently banned in many states. Critics argued that no one would — or should — watch unpadded kicks meeting jawbones or one man furiously pounding the other’s barely protected head while pinning him helplessly on the mat.
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A time to talk it out
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DOWNTOWN There they were, with their green “Save These Trees” signs held proudly, united in their support for saving the ficus trees along Second and Fourth streets.
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