DOWNTOWN — The Third Street Promenade, a central piece of the Downtown business district largely populated by clothing stores and restaurants, may see a new kind of tenant — alternative car dealerships.
DOWNTOWN — The past week has been a roller coaster ride for the New York Stock Exchange. The Dow Jones Average experienced a 513 point drop last Thursday, the furthest it had plunged since October 2008.
I wrote in my July 26 column that we needed to get the elevators fixed in the parking structures in Downtown. Well, City Hall was listening. Martin Pastucha, director of the Department of Public Works, called to update me on the status of the elevator repairs.
CITYWIDE — When you’re a pedestrian in Santa Monica, you’re in the 12th most walkable city in the country, and the fourth most walkable in the state. At least, according to Walk Score you are.
I spend a great deal of time each week Downtown. I have set lunches on Monday and Fridays that put me on the Third Street Promenade. Friday dinner means that you can usually find me at T’s Thai on Fourth, sitting at a table with my travel buddy and his wife, who rarely travels with us to exotic loca
CITYWIDE — For perhaps the first time in Santa Monica’s history, City Hall will officially push forward a policy to redistribute wealth, but not of the dollars and cents variety.
CITYWIDE — Despite dire predictions of hellfire, brimstone and bumper-to-bumper traffic, the much-feared (and much-hyped) “Carmageddon” that was expected to ravage all of Los Angeles last weekend was somewhat similar to the Rapture two months before — if it happened, most people didn’t notice.
Well, my campaign to end the poo bags seems to have gained enough traction, what with the California Supreme Court upholding Manhattan Beach’s ban on single-use plastic bags, that I can now move on to other topics.
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.
THIRD STREET PROMENADE — When Zoran “Zoki” Pavlovic emigrated to America in March of 1976, he wasn’t coming in search of a better life. He was desperately trying to save his.
THIRD STREET PROMENADE — Kathleen Rawson, CEO of Downtown Santa Monica, Inc., the new incarnation of Bayside District Corp., was in the middle of a speech Wednesday morning about the new name and logo for the popular shopping destination, and the agency that helps City Hall promote it, when somethin
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.
