BICKNELL AVENUE — Each year, City Hall’s Housing Division reports out on the number of affordable units it helped create within Santa Monica over the previous reporting period.
CITY HALL — Our modern world contains many new devices that provide convenience and luxury, but could they be making us sick? That’s a question confronted by Elizabeth Barris, a former Santa Monica resident who has been on a quest to raise awareness about electronics that most take for granted, and
Q: I work odd hours and don’t have time to handle my transactions inside the bank during normal business hours. Since I primarily use ATMs, will you provide some safety tips? A: ATMs have been incorporated into our way of life.
SM PIER — Thursday nights at the Santa Monica Pier, as the warm summer sun shines a ruddy gold in the evening sky, thousands of people begin streaming into a large parking lot on the south side of the edifice.
There are a lot of hot new restaurants opening up in Santa Monica. In fact, there are so many I am having trouble keeping up with them and writing the other two great articles I have in mind, “Where are the best BBQ ribs in the SM area” and “Old Timers.
PIER 59 — Santa Monica residents flocked to Pier 59 Studios Wednesday night to get in their two cents on how to support, enliven and preserve the arts venue in the face of a racing engine of change — the Exposition Light Rail line.
CITY HALL — Nothing occurs in a vacuum, particularly development in a dense city like Santa Monica. Perhaps never has that been more true than with three projects, located on Colorado Avenue a quarter-mile from the proposed Bergamot Transit Village, that are all at various stages in the planning pip
“I’ve told you everything and now you know too much, so I’m going to have to kill you.” This, in a nutshell, is the plot of Shem Bitterman’s new play, “A Death in Colombia.
14TH STREET — For one shining day in January 2010, gourmet food trucks filled a normally vacant lot on 14th Street at Santa Monica Boulevard. Hundreds of hungry patrons arrived to enjoy their edible wares, and owner Steve Taub planned to make the court a regular, if not daily, fixture on the propert
DOWNTOWN — If you are looking for a local hotel this weekend to escape “Carmageddon,” you may be out of luck. Santa Monica’s hotels are all nearly booked solid for July 16-17 when the Interstate 405 closure is expected to create major traffic delays on the Westside and the San Fernando Valley.
BOSTON — James “Whitey” Bulger’s longtime girlfriend is a subservient, “simple woman” whose only offense is a “crime of passion” she committed when she fell in love with the former Boston crime boss, her attorney said Wednesday as he asked a federal judge to release her on bail.
Dear New Shrink, My husband and I are having a difficult time of it these days with our teenage son. One minute he seems like he can’t be close enough to us and he is almost like a young child.
