The design studio Michael W. Folonis Architects received Monday two Honor Design Awards from the Westside Urban Forum. MWFA was lauded for its work on the UCLA Ambulatory Surgery and Oncology Center in Santa Monica ¬ó awarded in the Public/Institutional category ¬ó and a 200-unit, mixed-use resident
SMC ¬ó Santa Monica College alumna Gilda Clift Breland, Esq., has been named the winner of the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Recognition Award for Outstanding Professional and Community Service Achievement.
WILSHIRE BLVD — Patricia Colton walks into Coffee Bean, orders a Swedish berry iced tea, sits down and starts writing in her spiral bound notebook. “I’ve been a writer my whole life,” Colton said.
Dear EarthTalk: I own a small business and would like to do what I can to minimize its impact on the environment. Can you help me? ¬ó Jacob Levinson New York, NY There are many ways to green up any business, large or small-and an added benefit might just be saving money.
NEW YORK — I’ll Have Another’s bid for a Triple Crown ended with the shocking news that the colt was out of the Belmont Stakes because of a swollen left front tendon.
PCH ¬ó Lindsay Lohan emerged uninjured from a collision with a dump truck on Pacific Coast Highway on Friday, returning to the set of her new movie hours after the accident left the sports car she was driving crumpled.
Dear EarthTalk: I understand there is good news about the recovery of bird species like the Peregrine Falcon, Bald Eagle and others owed to the 1972 ban on DDT.
Gathered around a public bench in Venice Beach, three young men share a celebratory marijuana joint early one morning. Cody, who has just turned 20, takes a long drag and passes the joint to his friend Squirrel.
MALIBU — Fallen angels are what Marines call those who do not return from battle. “The last full measure of devotion” is how Lincoln put it. It’s also the dread of every family with a son or daughter on the battlefield.
AIRPORT COURTHOUSE — A 32-year-old Santa Monica man pleaded no contest Wednesday to two counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14 as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors, authorities said.
City Hall will be hosting the 74th annual Memorial Day observance at Woodlawn Cemetery on Monday, featuring patriotic songs, speeches about Santa Monica’s past and a DC-3 flyover.
The policy is successful; we must change the policy. It is a ridiculous sentiment, of course, but that was the reaction of the amnesty crowd to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center indicating that Mexican immigration has leveled off to a point where there is equilibrium between Mexicans leaving Ame
