By Arabella Joaquin
SMDP Intern
This weekend, a group of high school students will turn music into a movement.
Ten teen bands plan to take the stage for Battle of
In 2022, California made sweeping changes to its Medi-Cal program that reimagined what health care could look like for some of the state’s poorest and sickest residents by covering
Three months into President Donald Trump’s second term and the recovery from the firestorm that devastated Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom finds himself at a precarious juncture.
The olive
Perhaps the only feature of Santa Monica life more predictable than the tides is perpetual confusion over the status of Malibu’s petition to carve out its own school district.
President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs are putting many California businesses, jobs and the state budget at risk. They’re affecting not only long-term relationships with trading partners, but
In a Hollywood courtroom, prosecutor and defense attorney both asserted their positions on how to best administer justice to the man appearing before them in shackled restraints. Judge Ronald Owen
Amid a post-2024 wave of Democratic interest in the burgeoning pro-development “abundance” movement, this seemed to be an easy year for California’s yes-in-my-backyard housing development activists.
Democratic leaders in
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes the Virginia Avenue Park Art & Literacy Festival, 3rd St. Promenade AMP Festival (Art, Music,
With more than 187,000 people sleeping on California’s streets and in its shelters, the state’s homeless services industry is struggling to hire enough qualified workers to help
Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of President Donald Trump’s broad imposition of tariffs on imported goods.
“President Trump’
Dear Editor,
Kudos to Staff Intern Devyn Hamilton for an excellent take on the debate over use of SM Airport Land. Asking SAMO students, the people who will soon be
