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.
CITY HALL — Santa Monica will soon have its first female police chief. Jacqueline Seabrooks, the current chief of police in Inglewood and a former member of the Santa Monica Police Department, has been selected to serve as Santa Monica’s next top cop following a three month, nationwide search, city
11TH STREET — Grace Phillips thinks of herself as the “perfect target” for Santa Monica’s Bicycle Action Plan, a recently approved document that unrolls massive changes over the next 20 years to make novice cyclists feel safe on the city’s roads.
SMMUSD HDQTRS The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is currently accepting applications for students who do not live within the district but wish to attend grades K through 11 in the 2012-13 school year.
LOS ANGELES — Larry Stevenson, a skateboard maker who helped take the sport from an early 1960s kid’s gimmick often compared to the hula hoop to a respectable and eventually professional sport on par with surfing, has died.
Claire Falkenstein (1908-1997), a female artist in her 50s, arrived in Los Angeles during the ‘60s when the mantra was “trust no one over 30” and when the art scene was dominated by hard-partying young men of the “cool school” who were creating their own new art and lifestyles.
SACRAMENTO — The woman accused of stealing money from Democratic candidates across California did so for over a decade and made off with $7 million in that time, according to a court document released by the U.
CITY HALL — The City Council gave the go ahead to explore building a parking structure next to the Santa Monica Pier, although members cautioned staff to pay attention to the structure’s aesthetics and to avoid creating a traffic snarl in nearby neighborhoods.
SM BAY — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board on Tuesday announced plans to reduce pollution entering the Santa Monica Bay and other local lakes, rivers and streams.
PICO BLVD — Nearly 30 people gathered at the Thelma Terry building in Virginia Avenue Park Saturday to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Garfield Elementary School, a pioneering institution that educated Santa Monica’s minority students and was home to its first African-American teacher, Dr.
