Dear EarthTalk: How is it that dams actually hurt rivers? — Missy Davenport, Boulder, Colo. Dams are a symbol of human ingenuity and engineering prowess-controlling the flow of a wild rushing river is no small feat.
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.
WILSHIRE BLVD — Every Sunday for the last four years, 70-year-old Bob Rosebrock has faithfully manned his post at the corner of Wilshire and San Vicente boulevards, just feet from a sprawling park at the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus.
SMC — The Santa Monica College Board of Trustees Friday put the brakes on a controversial program that would have required students to shoulder the entire cost of optional summer courses.
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.
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DOWNTOWN — On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was cut down by an assassin’s bullet, elevating the most powerful voice of the civil rights movement from leader to martyr.
CITYWIDE — If afflicted with the drunk munchies while wandering Main Street on a weekend, revelers have two options: Hit up Holy Guacamole, or walk to Los Angeles.
SMC — Hundreds of students gathered outside the Santa Monica College president’s office in a third day of protests calling for an end to a proposal to make students shoulder the entire cost of certain summer school classes and punishment for campus police that pepper sprayed students and onlookers a
Shore Hotel was awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, making it the first Santa Monica hotel to bear the sustainable distinction, representatives from the hotel announced Wednesday.
SMC — Santa Monica College officials are investigating the use of pepper spray by campus police on a group of students Tuesday who were part of a protest in opposition to a controversial plan to offer summer classes at cost to those students willing to pay full price.
BROAD STAGE — Those who filled the seats of the Broad Stage last week at the National Children’s Choir performance of “Journey of Song” expected to watch youth sing.
