Santa Monica’s Sea Dragon Takes Flight for St. Louis. Sea Dragon 2 Coming Soon.
Well wishers to one of the Santa Monica Pier's most famous attractions, the Sea Dragon, witnessed a once-in-a-lifetime and only-in-Santa-Monica moment when a helicopter dropped its wires, snagged the city's largest green scaly resident...
Promenade Comeback: New Places Open for Doughnuts, Iced Cream
This weekend, two new trendy chain places to get sweets will open on the Third Street Promenade: Duck Donuts and Mad Scientist Ice Cream (which actually did a ‘surprise’ soft opening yesterday) in the...
City Makes It Clear: No More Discussion with Palmdale About Housing without Council Approval
At the end of discussion about further amendments to the city's housing element at Tuesday's City Council meeting (video and agenda), Councilmember Carolyn Torosis brought up the question of what city can and cannot...
Flip 1st Gymnastics Opens for Full Family Fun and Fitness at Pico/Lincoln
It’s been nearly a quarter of a century since Dan “the Man” Levi came to Los Angeles and to teach gymnastics. His California journey saw him teaching classes out of the back of a...
How Can Santa Monica Guarantee the Most New Affordable Housing?
When is 15 greater than 20?
This was one of many complicated questions the Santa Monica City Council wrestled with on Wednesday, and the answer could decide how the city attacks its affordable housing shortage.
The...
Palmdale Gives Greenlight to Staff to Discuss Transfer of Santa Monica’s New Housing Construction...
Update, February 22, 10:00 a.m. - The City of Santa Monica emailed a statement last night clarifiying that it was Palmdale that initially reached out to the city last December and the only contact...
City Council Declares Local Emergency on Homelessness
At the end of another marathon meeting last night, the Santa Monica City Council unanimously adopted a proclamation “Declaring a Local Emergency on Homelessness.” (Item 11-a, agenda video.) According to City Manager David White,...
City Council Takes Second Step To Close Airport and Plan for the 227 Acres...
Over three and a half hours into another marathon City Council meeting, the Council heard a report from the city’s Department of Public Works on the future of the 227 acre Santa Monica Airport...
Help Us Re-Launch Santa Monica Next in 2023
For half a decade, Santa Monica Next was the place for progressives to turn to for news about what was going on in Santa Monica. Under the leadership of Jason Islas, the news website...
Progressives Score Wins in City Council and School Board Races and Other Thoughts on...
This year's midterm Congressional elections saw a surprisingly strong turnout from progressive voters hold back and nearly completely dissipate a 'red wave' that pundits expected to sweep over the country. Santa Monica was no...
Malibu Attorney Who Could Net Millions from Lawsuit Against City Physically Intimidates Santa Monica...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej-maK6eWkg
A video showing Malibu attorney Kevin Shenkman physically intimidating a Santa Monica resident who attempts to ask questions of city council candidate Armen Melkonians surfaced over the weekend, drawing concerns from many, including State...
Early Halloween as New PAC Dresses Up as SMRR
You’ve doubtlessly seen them. If not, you’ve certainly heard of them. Spoofing the name of the political party that’s been a major player in Santa Monica Politics for the better part of half a...
Change for Who? Another Santa Monica PAC with Murky Donors Groups Influences Local Races
The Santa Monicans for Change PAC was described in an October 3 Santa Monica Lookout article as a “slow-growth organization”, but they are in fact a far-right organization with major overlap with the local...
D.A.’s Office Clarifies That Negrete Is No Longer Under Investigation for Gift Card Giveaway
In response to an inquiry from Santa Monica Next, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office (D.A. 's Office) stated this afternoon that Santa Monica City Councilmember is no longer under investigation for her...
Community Corporation of Santa Monica Celebrates 40 Years with New Video
Community Corporation of Santa Monica posted a video to its website earlier this morning to celebrate its 40th Anniversary. Founded in 1982, the non-profit affordable housing developer has built or restored more than 100 properties throughout...
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