SMMUSD HDQTRS — The rooftops at nine Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District campuses could soon be getting solar panels designed to generate two-thirds of the district’s electricity needs, under a deal expected to receive approval from the school board at its meeting tonight.
Even though there are a lot of good people at Saint John’s Health Center doing their best to provide outstanding care to patients, the decisions made by management and the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System undermine that good work.
DOWNTOWN — The Santa Monica Democratic Club and Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights, the city’s leading political party, may support many of the same principles, but that doesn’t mean both groups will necessarily be rooting for the same local candidates this November.
LOS ANGELES — A Santa Monica man was arrested for installing illegal supergraphics above his empty office building across the street from the entrance of LAX, officials with the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office said Monday.
SAMOHI — With the start of the 2010 high school volleyball season just around the corner, Santa Monica High School girls Head Coach Liane Sato is doing all she can to help prepare her team for the fall schedule.
The Australian continent has experienced some extreme climates during the past 65 million years. Its fauna and flora are testament to those extremities.
ROUTE 66 — Few travelers know the other side of Route 66, the Mother Road of America. The haunted side of Route 66. Eight states, all with their own colorful tales of love, murder and mayhem, have ghosts who, for whatever reason, have chosen to stay behind.
PICO NEIGHBORHOOD — Along a light yellow hand-painted wall with creative creatures that resemble aliens and even Pac-Man figures stands what Joey Bravo calls his “treasure chest” — a colorful chest with bold jungle animals grazing by a bright blue river.
CIVIC CENTER — From the time she was a little girl, Karen Williams has wanted a fluffy, white cat. Like any hobbyist, Karen started small. She bought her first kitten, a white Persian, while living in Wisconsin.
Public benefits are a major aspect of City Hall’s General Plan update (known as the Land Use and Circulation Element, or LUCE) approved a couple months ago by the City Council.
Finally, a good Chinese restaurant in Santa Monica. When I first moved here there were lots of Chinese restaurants, many Cantonese, but a few Szechuan.
We are in the midst of the biggest recall in American history. Obviously, I’m talking about eggs. Many of us have worried about this danger for years, but we were branded as “alarmists.