Eyes on the Street: Santa Monica Whole Foods 365 Aiming for Summer Opening
Santa Monica will soon be on the list of cities that are home to a Whole Foods 365, the high-end grocer's more affordable chain.
A former office park on the northeast corner of Pico Boulevard...
Santa Monica’s Main Street on Track to Get Parklets This July
In November 2015, the Santa Monica City Council voted to approve plans for parklets at three locations on Main Street. According to a recent staff report, those parklets should be ready by July this...
Looking Back at the News Stories That Defined Santa Monica in 2016
This past year, Santa Monica continued to advance some very progressive policies aimed at sharing the city’s increasing prosperity with as wide a swath of residents, workers, and other members of the community as...
Discovering Santa Monica: The Rustic Canyon Family of Restaurants
If you’ve spent any time in Santa Monica, chances are you’ve at least passed by one of the half-dozen locally-owned eateries in the Rustic Canyon Group of Restaurants.
From the Sweet Rose Creamery on Pico...
News Wire: Odd Market L.A. Comes to the Santa Monica Pier
Odd Market L.A. makes its westside debut at the Santa Monica Pier. On Saturday, January 28, more than 75 vendors and food trucks will transform the iconic pier into a bazaar scene of boutique merchants,...
Eternal Meadow at Santa Monica’s Woodlawn Cemetery Offers Greener Burial Options
Above the surface, cemeteries are serene expanses of green, with plenty of trees and flowers.
Below ground, however, America’s cemeteries are environmental disasters. Buried along with the deceased are toxic embalming fluids, metals from...
Santa Monica to Celebrate Parks Day on February 25
Via the City of Santa Monica.
On Saturday, February 25, 2017, the City of Santa Monica will host Parks Day, Come Play! a community event celebrating:
The grand opening of Ishihara Park, a new 2.35-acre...
Mapping the Culture of Santa Monica’s Pico Neighborhood
The colorful mural painted on two long concrete walls under the Santa Monica Freeway along the Stewart Street underpass in Santa Monica tells the story of the Pico neighborhood surrounding it.
The mural was created...
Video: Exploring the 11th Annual Santa Monica Airport ArtWalk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIJP8Beg7pE
About 60 artists who work out of studios at the Santa Monica Airport opened their creative spaces to the general public last Saturday. The event was the 11th annual Santa Monica Airport ArtWalk, sponsored by...
Join Santa Monica’s Mayor For His First Monthly Group Bike Ride
Join Santa Monica Mayor Ted Winterer for the first monthly community bike ride of his tenure on Sunday, January 29.
The roughly six-mile ride (about an hour to an hour and 20 minutes long) will...
Santa Monica Police Department Announces “Meet Your Neighbors” Challenge
The Santa Monica Police Department wants you to get to know your neighbors, and they are offering a prize to those who take the steps to do so.
"Through our daily interactions with the community...
Video: Woodlawn Cemetery’s ‘Living History’ Tour Gives Voice to Its Most Famous Occupants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsMrBOYf_0Q
Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica held its third annual Living History Tour on Saturday as 14 actors stood by the graves of noted people buried there to deliver monologues highlighting their lives.
The community was...
Reducing Its Footprint, Santa Monica Is a Leader in Fighting Climate Change
In its quest to be the greenest of the green, Santa Monica wants to achieve the rarified environmental designation of being “carbon neutral” by 2050.
Carbon neutrality means the city’s greenhouse gas emissions would be...
For a Great Workout, Without a Gym Membership, There’s the Memorial Park Fitness Room
When Santa Monica’s Annenberg Community Beach House opened in 2009, among the many amenities offered to the public was a fitness center with a variety of exercise equipment.
The thinking was that Annenberg visitors would...
Belmar Apartments Afford Great Opportunities for Local Artist Michael Baroff
For the last two years, local artist and long-time Santa Monica resident Michael Baroff has called his art studio home.
The two-level loft in which Baroff has set up shop is one of 10 artists...
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