Featured Event: What Every Snowflake Knows in its Heart
For this week's featured event, we encourage our readers to embrace their artistic side for an event at the Santa Monica Museum of Art called "Collaboration is Utopia."
If you peruse the current exhibitions at...
Santa Monica Fights Cancer with 24-Hour Relay for Life
Celeste Miller’s approach to life after her cancer diagnosis nine years ago wasn’t what you might expect.
After hearing the news, she decided to finally learn how to swim. Then she took up rock climbing...
Big Blue Bus Real-Time Arrival Info Coming to an App this Summer
Riders will finally be able to track real-time arrival information for Santa Monica's Big Blue Bus on their phones or computers by this summer, according to the municipal bus service's director, Ed King.
Speaking at...
Expo Rail Is On Its Way To Santa Monica, Expected 2016
Our sister site Streetsblog Los Angeles has coverage of yesterday's press event celebrating the Metro Expo Line nearing completion. Expo Phase II construction is over 90 percent completed, and, if all goes as planned,...
Safe Routes To School Planning Meeting For Samohi Improvements Tonight
We've been covering the public process of the Michigan Ave. Neighborhood Greenway proposals since the launch of Santa Monica Next, but there is also related and overlapping project specific just to the area around...
Coming Up: Mixers, Playdates, City Council Meetings, and More!
Alright, so it's Monday and we're back to the grind, but there is plenty to look forward to. We've got an important City Council meeting coming up, a mixer, a playdate at Tongva Park...
New Software Lets You Budget the Revitalization of Santa Monica’s Civic Auditorium
Santa Monica residents are rarely shy about demanding asking things of their local officials. And while it's easy to ask for more services, more parks, or more parking, rarely do people get a chance to experience firsthand...
How Would You Design It Today?: Bob’s Market
Bob's Market is a local neighborhood grocery store in the heart of Santa Monica's Ocean Park neighborhood. It sits at the corner of 17th Street and Ocean Park Boulevard, across the street from John...
Alert: Santa Monica Police Targeting Drivers, Cyclists Again
The Santa Monica Police Department is once again targeting dangerous behavior by street users, whether you're behind the wheel, on foot, or on a bike, this Monday, November 24.
Monday's enforcement will focus on dangerous behavior...
California Incline Replacement, Esplanade Projects to Bring Safer Access to Santa Monica Beach
Two major construction projects are underway that, once finished, promise to make access to Santa Monica's beaches safer by providing protected bike lanes and wider sidewalks.
Construction on the Colorado Esplanade, which will add a...
Looking for an Intern to Help Research the Facts Surrounding SMO
We're looking for a journalism/political science/English/writing/planning student who wants to tackle a large research project this summer. While we don't have the funding to pay for the project, we can work with your college...
Throwback Thursday: City Target Santa Monica
Should Santa Monica have a City Target? That was the question facing City officials in February 2001.
The retail giant had singled-out a location in the bayside city's Downtown – on a parking lot behind...
Tomorrow: Streetsblog TV Will Live Stream Santa Monica Next’s Launch Press Conference.
Tomorrow at 11 am, Santa Monica Next will host a press conference announcing our formal launch. The event will feature our writing team talking about our short- and long-term goals for the website and...
Featured Event: California Climate Change Exchange Kick-Off Forum
Among the many organizations that make Santa Monica such a receptive area for sustainable discourse, a new group called California Climate Change Exchange is launching with the specific purpose of making people more aware...
Eyes on the Street: BBB’s First New Bus Stop
Moments ago, the Big Blue Bus posted the above picture announcing the unwrapping of the first of the new modern bus stops that will be popping up around the city in the next couple...
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