A Review of “Save the Pier”: A Play Recounting the Fight to Stop the...
The following is a review of “Save the Pier,” a one-hour play recounting the grassroots fight in the early 1970s to stop the demolition of the Santa Monica Pier.
Let me be blunt – I...
Coming Up: Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade Turns 25, Park(ing) Day, and Our City...
Mark your calendars! Santa Monica's world-famous 3rd Street Promenade is turning 25 (and you can bet there will be some fanfare), Santa Monica gets ready to celebrate Park(ing) Day, and our City Council Candidate...
Transforming Bergamot Station
In the middle of Santa Monica's Bergamot Station – a collection of about three dozen art galleries housed in repurposed industrial buildings – there is a patch of green space. It is small, about...
Throwback Thursday: Watch A Century of Santa Monica Growth in 20 Seconds
Jamie Horton contributed to this report.
Watch a century of Los Angeles history unfold before your eyes in a matter seconds with Built:LA, a new interactive visual database that lets you see the built environment...
SaMo’s Camera Obscura Building Offers a Glimpse into the Past
Often overlooked, Santa Monica’s Camera Obscura is a noteworthy relic of photographic history. Stepping into the attraction’s small, darkened space transports today’s media-saturated visitors to a time when the public viewed the projection of...
Commission on the Status of Women Invites Santa Monica to Celebrate Women’s History Month
The Santa Monica Commission on the Status of Women announced a line up of community events celebrating Women's History Month all March long. Below is the list of events, starting with the Commission's reception...
Throwback Thursday: The Gambling Ships of Santa Monica
Santa Monica in the early 1930s was many things, but a sleepy beach town it wasn't.
The bayside city was a major industrial center where Douglas Aircraft Company (later known as McDonnell Douglas) manufactured the famous...
Gruber: Turns Out That When It Comes To Local Politics Santa Monica is not...
Note: This article originally appeared on The Healthy City Local. It is reprinted here with the author's permission.
In the last couple of posts I’ve been trying, mostly by means of rereading Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, to put anti-development politics...
Moving Goal Posts and New Players: The Plight of Anti-Development Politicians
When it comes to the goals of the anti-development side, as soon as one goal is achieved, a new, more extreme goal is created.
After Tuesday night’s City Council meeting Councilmember Sue Himmelrich might understandably...
Coming Up: The League of Women Voters of Santa Monica Hosts Annual Meeting, Celebrate...
This week, the local League of Women Voters invites you to the organization’s annual meeting, at which Santa Monica Director of Planning David Martin will speak. Also, come celebrate 150 years of the end...
Sprawl Repair
This article originally appeared on Healthy City Local.
here is one boulevard in Santa Monica that is so degraded that even people who rarely accept the idea that Santa Monica might stand to change for...
Throwback Thursday: “Big Amusement” Comes to Ocean Park
Let’s take a trip down memory lane with the help of the Santa Monica Public Library’s digital archives to a hundred years ago this week when The Evening Outlook announced the deal that would...
June at Santa Monica’s Annenberg Community Beach House
Via city of Santa Monica press release.
What’s more fun than summer at the Beach House? Do a lot or do a little!
Get active: Try one of our summer-inspired classes! BOGAFiT on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:15-8:15...
Looking back on 3rd Street on the Promenade’s 25th Birthday
Visiting the Third Street Promenade on any given day – let alone on a holiday weekend – it's hard to imagine the three block stretch between Wilshire Boulevard and Broadway in Downtown Santa Monica...
Gruber: A Candidate’s Perspective on the Santa Monica City Council Election, Part One
Editor's note: Below is the first in a series of blog posts by former City Council Candidate and long-time political observer, Frank Gruber, taking a closer look at the November 2014 election. The original...
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