CITYWIDE ¬ó Homeowners could soon be asked if they are willing to pay on average $54 a year to fund projects intended to protect the Santa Monica Bay and other water bodies.
In case you haven’t noticed, Father’s Day is less than 48 hours away. (Who knows, you could have been kidnapped by aliens and lost track of time.) I can tell Father’s Day is approaching because of all the commercials for tools, tires and mattresses.
Winners of the Sustainable Student Art Sculpture Contest were declared Wednesday by the Resource Recovery & Recycling Division and the Office of Sustainability and the Environment.
The Hollywood Fringe Festival, an annual celebration of independently produced emerging arts across all genres, is premiering new music, film, theatre and other performance events in multiple conventional and unorthodox venues from June 14 through June 24.
Editor’s note: Longtime Santa Monican Charles Andrews is traveling across Europe in a camper van for one year, with his family. What you observe and what you experience when traveling depends a lot on your mode of travel.
Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing series that tracks the city’s expenditures appearing on upcoming Santa Monica City Council consent agendas.
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.
SM PIER — Jamaican harmonies, indie rock and salsa music will roll with the crashing waves at this year’s Twilight Concert Series. The Santa Monica Pier’s free summer tradition will begin July 5, with the beach-appropriate songs of surfer/singer Donavon Frankenreiter and the soul music of Jeff Young
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.
PACIFIC PALISADES — Water quality watchdog Heal the Bay gave Santa Monica’s beach areas all As during dry weather, a continuing sign that Santa Monica’s bad water reputation may be behind it.
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles is becoming the nation’s largest city to ban plastic bags at grocery stores in an increasingly widespread move to conserve the environment.
Earth gives us everything we need including an abundance of renewable energy. The challenge is to know where to look. Ever watched the waves crash against the Santa Monica Bay shoreline? Worldwide ocean waves provide up to 2 terawatts of instantaneous electricity (1 terawatt equals 1 trillion watts)
