CITY HALL — A controversial decision to ban smoking for new tenants and condominium owners in Santa Monica looks likely to be reversed today with two of its former supporters signaling
DMV — Being a teenager, the one milestone that somehow seems more important to me than the bat mitzvah or even high school graduation is the attainment of a driver'
Dear EarthTalk: Has an alternative to air conditioning to keep rooms cool been invented that is significantly cheaper and/or that uses significantly less energy than traditional air conditioning?
— Ashutosh
JAMS — Santa Monica's foremost political organization threw its weight unanimously behind candidates vying for educational posts and the Rent Control Board at its convention Sunday, but struggled to
MALIBU ¬ó The City Council will vote Monday whether to pay $113,000 for a biofiltration project on Broad Beach. The project is the first of what is expected to be more than $500,000 in unbudgeted expenditures on storm drain improvements the council agreed to in April to settle a costly lawsuit with
SM PLACE ¬ó While Santa Monica Place was bustling during the lunch hour, the Community Room was bustling with the girls of Camp Kate Kate and their proud parents.
DOWNTOWN ¬ó Santa Monicans gathered at the Ken Edwards Center to lodge their complaints against a proposed closure of the Fifth Street post office, but left feeling that the so-called proposal was more of a done deal.
SMMUSD HDQTRS ¬ó The Kiwanis Club of Santa Monica gave the Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation a $2,500 grant for its Tech4Success program, it was announced Friday.
LOS ANGELES — Charles Barfield, living on the streets for the past five years, doesn’t trust anyone. Armed with a pocketknife, he beds down in a doorway in downtown LA every night, making sure no one’s nearby.
Not everyone believes in global warming. They feel that those of us who do believe in it are “nutty left-wingers” or victims of “conspiratorial pseudo-science.
SANTA MONICA BLVD — As she did research for her sci-fi novel, “While Rome Burns,” a look at a world devastated by climate change, Santa Monican Laura Matthews discovered a new passion — fighting global warming.
I absolutely love the taste of blue cheese, but I haven’t eaten it in ages because it just seems like one of those foods that provides so much fat (73 percent of its calories come from fat) that it’s difficult to justify eating it.
