SANTA MONICA BEACH — The more things change, the more they stay the same. A recent ordinance, which bans ball playing at Los Angeles County beaches during the summer except in specially designated parts of the beach, has some members of the community in an uproar.
In January, Santa Monica Daily Press editor Kevin Herrera reported that, “The League of California Cities and the California City Manager Foundation are featuring Santa Monica in their ongoing ‘Strong Cities | Strong State’ campaign highlighting local government success stories across California.
SM PIER — Planning is already underway to bring a little Glow back to Santa Monica. Over a year and a half of organizing and fundraising will take place before the Glow art festival, with its 20 massive installations and over 100 artists, makes its return to the Santa Monica Pier on Sept.
DOWNTOWN — Michael Pierce points to a notebook shaped object being cradled by an antique Roman figure in a statue at the Getty Villa on Pacific Coast Highway.
Heal the Bay’s Santa Monica Pier Aquarium is teaming up with Cirque du Soleil to give kids from disadvantaged neighborhoods a chance to learn about the ocean and how to protect it.
They’re having a bugfest at the Santa Monica Pier, and it has nothing to do with sand fleas. It’s the dazzling Cirque du Soleil production “OVO,” a festival of whimsical bugs doing what bugs, and Cirque performers, do best: climbing, slithering, swinging, jumping, crawling and bouncing.
CITYWIDE — When it comes to charging electric vehicles, it’s out with the old and in with the new. Santa Monica is now home to seven new, publicly-accessible electrical vehicle charging stations that have been strategically placed in high-traffic areas like Santa Monica Place, the Civic Center and M
SM PIER — Heal the Bay announced a change up in its management team Tuesday in preparation for the departure of long-time president Mark Gold, who has accepted a position with UCLA.
CITYWIDE — Santa Monica is falling short on its efforts to regulate tobacco use in multi-family residences, according to a report released Thursday by the American Lung Association.
I spent the Christmas holiday in Mexico house sitting for a friend. It was a wonderful way to see another country and experience a culture that is similar to my own, but different enough to be interesting.
OCEAN AVE — “A time comes when silence is betrayal.” Members of the Occupy Venice organization rallied to those words by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday in Palisades Park in an attempt to show through their actions that they would no longer be silent.
SANTA MONICA PIER — A team of over 60 men and women gathered at the Cirque du Soleil’s blue and yellow striped tent Tuesday afternoon, splitting into groups of two’s and three’s to push over 100 steel poles into position and raise the Grand Chapiteau (big top).
