Welcome to SMDP’s weekly column highlighting goings on in and around Santa Monica this week.
Your weekend starts here with the AIDS/LifeCycle Finish Line Festival that is expecting
While many responses focussed on the homelessness crisis, the increase in crime and rising rents, most residents said they’d only move if Santa Monica sank into the ocean or was overrun by an alien invasion
When the last of the Wendel siblings died in 1931, the world assumed that the childless family had no heirs to inherit their vast wealth and New York real-estate empire. Thousands came forward to try
Public spaces where smokers can puff away continue to go up in smoke.
Over the years, Santa Monica has sought to restrict the places where lighting up is allowed, placing
Complete with a Santa Monica-inspired rap performance performed by improv comedians "Those Klein Boys" from local comedy club The Crow, the Chamber of Commerce held one of its
Facts: Just the Facts is an occasional feature of SMDP highlighting a fact about the City of Santa Monica. The city is the 85th largest in California with a 2020 population of 93,744.
Dance: In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a dance group from the Manitoba Métis Federation and Red River Métis in Winnipeg, Canada, performed in front of City Hall Yesterday. Council
James ‘Jimmy’ Cooley did not have an easy life but despite years of physical pain and accompanying emotional trauma, he is being remembered by his family for the deep love
All candidates were given an opportunity to provide written answers to a set of questions provided by SMDP and two sets of answers will be printed each day. Answers are
Section 8 voucher holders will soon have a stronger voice when it comes to housing issues, especially the administration of federal housing dollars, within the City of Santa Monica.
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Santa Monica residents have until Monday, Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. to apply for the city’s one-time rent relief program.
Council budgeted $750,000 for the Rent Control
Councilwoman Kristin McCowan will not run for reelection this year creating a second seat without an incumbent on the November ballot.
McCowan had initially said she wanted to run this
