CLOVER PARK — The rhythms of bossa nova will blend with the aromas of vegetarian cuisine and possibly the whir of a blender powered by a stationary bike at the 21st Annual Santa Monica Festival this Saturday at Clover Park.
A new medical building with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council was recently added to the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center.
SAMOHI — A program at Santa Monica High School that supports teen parents and faculty with new children is using innovation to shore up an uncertain funding future, but could use a little help from the community.
In my view, it’s cause for rejoicing when a play is beautifully written and is performed by actors who are at least as brilliant as the writing. Mostly because it doesn’t happen all that often.
Applications are now available for a position on the Santa Monica Commission on the Status of Women. The nine-member commission advises the City Council and city officials on issues relating to women and girls, while also implementing its own 2010-15 Strategic Plan.
Until I gave birth for the first time, I never thought much about the fact that making a child doesn’t automatically make you a parent. To be sure, it’s a cliché straight from a public service announcement, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less true: Plenty of men father children but aren’t actually d
BERGAMOT STATION — A major redevelopment of the former Papermate site previously scheduled for review in June will now be put off until the beginning of 2013, and a local anti-development group is taking credit.
Energy is the lifeblood of modern economies and there’s no more amazingly useful form of energy than electricity. That’s why I was initially startled to read the recent news that the last of Japan’s 54 nuclear power plants has been shut down, a turn of events that makes Japan the first major economy
CITY HALL — The Landmarks Commission voted Monday night to start a landmarking process for public art piece “Chain Reaction,” a move which will set in motion a chain of events with uncertain consequences for both City Hall and the sculpture.
SEVENTH STREET — The young woman struggled to thrust her arm through a narrow gap in the silk curtains hanging from the ceiling — while suspended 5 feet off the ground and secured by a only few loops of that same fabric around her legs.
The watershed political event of the last quarter century happened Nov. 4, 2008, when voters defeated a ballot measure to temporarily curb commercial development called Measure T or the “Residents Initiative to Fight Traffic (RIFT).
Seventeen years ago, two men met on the side of Pacific Coast Highway to discuss the future. That day, Al Friedenberg had been offered the principal position at Grant Elementary School and was driving along PCH to his home in Thousand Oaks.
