VIRGINIA AVENUE PARK — Michael Jackson, the community services program director at Virginia Avenue Park and a graduate of Santa Monica High School, vividly remembers the moment when he learned what it truly means to be a man.
XRDS — Crossroads’ boys’ basketball team opened the season with “a good old fashioned butt whooping” by Brentwood Tuesday, to hear Head Coach Kevin Jackson tell it.
CORSAIR FIELD — For two teams sporting gaudy records, it seems that each head coach is looking for a little respect. The second round CIF-Southern Section Western Division matchup between Santa Monica and Ventura high schools on Friday features the teams with the best records in the field, but to he
MOOSE LODGE — It’s not often that a high school baseball fundraiser draws a crowd of paparazzi, but the presence of Charlie Sheen has the ability to do that.
Samohi — When Mackenzie Moody first saw Santa Monica High’s new artificial turf field, the feeling was a mixture of joy and relief. “I was excited for the band to have something that was reliable to work on,” she said.
CORSAIR FIELD — It was that kind of night for Samohi’s Sebastian LaRue. The junior wide receiver scored all four of Santa Monica High School’s touchdowns en route to a 28-20 win over Channel Islands on Friday at Santa Monica College to advance to the second round of the CIF-Southern Section Western
SMC — The Corsairs’ Pacific Conference championship has nabbed them quite a few post-season honors. Santa Monica College’s head football coach Gifford Lindheim, who led the Corsairs to an 8-2 record this season, was named the American Division Pacific Conference Coach of the Year, it was announced o
CITY HALL — Members of the organization Community for Excellent Public Schools (CEPS) earlier this month gathered to celebrate the first anniversary of the passage of a half-cent transaction and use tax that has been levied on the citizens of Santa Monica since March 2011.
CORSAIR FIELD — Samohi’s first home playoff game in a decade will have a touch of the familiar. When Santa Monica High School’s football team takes the field against Channel Islands in the opening round of the CIF-Southern Section Western Division playoffs on Friday, they may have the feeling that t
CITYWIDE — A trio of Santa Monica-based soccer teams appear in the preseason CIF-Southern Section soccer polls, it was announced on Monday. Both the girls’ and boys’ teams from Santa Monica High School were named to the first poll released this season.
CIVIC CENTER — Nearly 150 food bloggers descended upon Santa Monica for the International Food Bloggers Conference 2011, three days of eating, drinking, networking and building companionship within a tight-knit community that rarely, if ever, gets closer than video chat.
