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.
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.
