CITY HALL — City Hall will have no part in surf instruction on Santa Monica’s beaches this year after city officials recommended against contracting with a local firm that came in second in a formal bidding process, despite the fact that the first-place candidate dropped out.
Recently, the New York Times, the Washington Post and even CBS news featured stories about our fair city. Feeling rather prideful, I wondered what they could be about.
CITY HALL — Boot camps may be getting the boot out of public parks and beaches. City officials will explore options to regulate commercial exercise groups on public property citing a steady stream of resident complaints and the toll such groups and their equipment take on the parks.
CITY HALL – Those who give fitness classes on the beach or in public parks have been put on notice. The City Council gave staff the go ahead to explore restricting fitness classes in public open spaces, uses which city officials say force other people out of the parks and beaches and can cause damag
MID-CITY — Santa Monica police officers shut down several streets Tuesday afternoon as they hunted and eventually captured a man who allegedly struck his girlfriend as they argued inside a car.
The City of Angels might soon be joining a growing web of California jurisdictions banning single-use, plastic carry-out bags. The Los Angeles City Council had earlier expressed support for some sort of plastic bag ban, but controversy over whether a fee should be placed on paper bags — or whether t
Amidst a down economy, it is refreshing to hear a success story, especially when that story began right here in Santa Monica and involves one of the most competitive and cutthroat industries around — the beverage business.
City Hall Santa Monica is a finalist for the 2012 Sustainable Community Award in the medium-size city category, according to a statement released Thursday by City Hall.
CITYWIDE — Dixie Vanderloop doesn’t often hang out at the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce offices on Sixth Street on a Thursday night, but this week was an exception.
Spring has definitely sprung across the Southern California arts landscape. Here’s a roundup of upcoming and ongoing events that pique my interest. I’ll report on some of them later but I think all merit your consideration now.
SM COURTHOUSE — A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Tuesday dismissed a medical marijuana testing lab owner’s request that the court force City Hall to give the facility a business license.
Kim Longwood may be the most hated school administrator in Sioux City, Iowa, if not America, after her inclusion in the movie “Bully.” It’s a well deserved sobriquet as she victimizes the victim in a schoolyard pattern of abuse.
