CITYWIDE — Whether you prefer the nickname “Tech Coast” or “Silicon Beach,” Santa Monica sells itself as a place that sits on the technological frontier and uses that capability to improve both its economy and its citizens’ lives.
Editor’s note: Longtime Santa Monican Charles Andrews is traveling across Europe in a camper van for one year, with his family. Indulge me a moment if you will, kind reader, so I may tell you where I am as I write this column for my home newspaper.
SANTA MONICA BLVD — A Santa Monica therapist is blaming business review website Yelp.com for a drastic drop in the number of referrals she’s received over the last seven months.
“If music be the food of love, play on!” — William Shakespeare L.A. Chamber Orchestra (LACO) is always thinking of ingenious new ways to get audiences interested in chamber music.
SM BEACH — A Santa Monica-based surf camp that has taught local youth to master the waves since 2006 may lose the right to operate on Santa Monica Beach this year in favor of a San Diego-based company.
MAIN STREET — On a typical day, Julie Weiss will wake up, walk out of the door of her Santa Monica apartment and go for a five mile run near the beach.
PICO BLVD — Santa Monica police and other law enforcement groups arrested a suspect in the 2008 murder of Santa Monica resident Alexander Merman, authorities announced Friday.
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.
Richard Diebenkorn put Santa Monica’s Ocean Park on the map the world over. Every major museum owns at least one of the iconic paintings in his “Ocean Park Series” — only two own more than one.
COUNTYWIDE — Make no bones about it, Fido and his owner can walk, play and now eat together in restaurants with outdoor patios in Santa Monica and throughout Los Angeles County.
SMC — Joe and Nancy Owens will never forget how scholarships helped them achieve fulfilling careers and lives. Joe was the son of a Texas tenant farmer, the youngest of eight children.
ETIWANDA — Samohi’s trek through the playoffs came to an end on Friday at Etiwanda. Santa Monica High School’s boys’ basketball team entered the CIF-Southern Section Division 1AA quarterfinals having dispatched Roosevelt and Silverado in the first two rounds, but couldn’t hold off an Etiwanda team t
