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.
SAMOHI — Winning a league title has paid off for the Vikings’ softball team. The primary pitcher-catcher battery from Santa Monica High School’s Ocean League winning team earned the league’s top honors.
SM BEACH — Nick Steers was apprehensive, concerned that besides 12 hours crammed full of facts about 1930s era Hollywood, early Santa Monica beach culture and Georgian revival architecture, that he would still be stumped.
DOWNTOWN — It wasn’t too far back when an already contentious relationship between Critical Mass and the Santa Monica Police Department reached a boiling point, cyclists alleging they were unfairly being targeted during their monthly rides, authorities countering that they were simply trying to ensu
<i>Editor’s Note: The Quackers are three awesome ducks from the canals of Venice who are on a mission to educate the community about the dangers of global warming and the importance of practicing sustainability, all while surfing the most gnarly waves possible.
This past week, Q-Line asked: City Hall was recently recognized by the League of American Bicyclists for its efforts to make Santa Monica a bike-friendly city.
If necessity is the mother of invention, a bad economy is invention’s annoying, but motivating brother-in-law. During the Great Depression, all kinds of important things were invented including the electric shaver, penicillin, and Monopoly.
Credit is scarce, the layaway is back and conservation is suddenly king. Here’s why the environmental movement was right all along. A funny thing happened on the way to the economic downturn.
WOODLAWN CEMETERY — There’s an old childhood picture of Virgil County sitting happily in his grandfather’s hearse, donning an event-appropriate attire of a bowtie and knickerbockers.
VENICE — Pacifica Christian, playing its first ever baseball season, advanced to the second round of the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section Division VII playoffs with a 7-6 victory over Newbury Park Adventist on Friday.
Tiffany & Co. has come out with a collection of vintage-inspired, key charm necklaces. The keys are gold, silver, and platinum, with heads shaped like ovals, squares, trefoils, quatrefoils, and hearts.
DOWNTOWN — There is finally some good news to come out of Heal the Bay’s 19th Annual Beach Report Card for the Santa Monica Pier. While the beach is still among the dirtiest in the state, making the top 10 “Beach Bummers” list and earning an F for water quality once again, the outlook is positive fo