CITY HALL – In a drastic turn, the City Council approved a law Tuesday night that would prohibit smoking for new tenants in multi-unit housing and force existing residents to designate their apartments and condominiums smoking or lose the right to light up in their homes at all.
CITY HALL ¬ó Stock up on quarters and check your credit card balances ¬ó parking rates are officially going up in Santa Monica. The City Council approved an array of changes to parking rates throughout the city on Tuesday night, in most cases raising the amount that it will cost people to park in be
DOWNTOWN ¬ó Homicide detectives Wednesday were investigating the stabbing death of a 27-year-old Laguna Beach man who was killed earlier that day during a party held at an apartment complex in the 400 block of Broadway.
Recently I stepped into a Grimm’s fairy tale akin to ¬ìThe Sleeping Beauty.¬î Remember how she lay hidden for years in an overgrown forest near the decaying palace which was her home? The beautiful illustrations by Arthur Rackham from my childhood books came to mind as I explored the island of Cuba.
SM PIER — Hundreds of Princess Leias and Luke Skywalkers will convene with Darth Vaders and rebel pilots on the Santa Monica Pier this Saturday. Don’t fret — this is not an intergalactic war.
WALGROVE AVE — He thought the phone call was a scam, a travel outfit scouring the country for performers like a vulture. After hanging up, Santa Monica resident Ron Theile was convinced that he wouldn’t hear from KIconcerts again, and he’d go back to Walgrove Avenue for a regular day of teaching.
Dear EarthTalk: Is there any environmental risk from all that Japanese tsunami debris that is starting to wash up on the U.S. west coast? ¬ó Bailey Thigerson, Seattle, Wash.
Did you ever call in sick and then go hang out with friends? Were you ever supposed to call on clients, but decided to go to a movie instead? Did you ever “forget” to tell your boss that a business lunch has been canceled, and then go out to lunch with your spouse? If you got away with this kind o
A few years ago we ate at what was then considered to be the best restaurant in the world. The name was El Bulli (The Bulldog) and it was located in Rosas, Spain, just north of Barcelona.
The “Red White and Brew Bar Crawl and All-Day BBQ Bash” will take place on July 4 on Main Street, with a percentage of the proceeds going to the Surfrider Foundation.
Crime Watch is a weekly series culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only. All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
SM BEACH — A Santa Monica-based nonprofit reported that the nation’s beaches last year experienced the third-highest number of closures and advisory days in over two decades, spurring calls for stronger federal environmental regulations.
