New Petition Circulating to Turn Bergamot Area Into Airport
A new group known as Arts2Airport announced a new ballot referendum that would rezone the Bergamot Arts Center, renovating or removing the existing buildings to serve air-oriented uses. The initiative, announced on the website...
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...
Santa Monica Next Looks for New Editor as Jason Islas Moves On
Big Bird GIF from Bigbird GIFs
Astute readers may have noticed a very small, almost insignificant change. the last couple of days. Jason Islas, who has been the editor at Santa Monica Next for just...
Events: Annual Women’s Day Breakfast, Empty Bowls fundraiser, Marathon Crash Race
Every year, thousands of runners converge on Los Angeles to participate in one of the most widely attended marathons in America: The L.A. Marathon. In years past, there was an official cycling event that...
What’s Next: Happy Birthday, Bike Action Plan!, Town Hall Meeting, and the Westside Celebrates...
The holidays are just around the corner, but there's no shortage of things to keep us busy until then. Celebrate the Bike Action Plan's three-year anniversary this week, sound off Santa Monica's future as...
Events: BBB Community Meetings, City Council Meeting, Twilight Concert, Picnic on the Promenade
Big Blue Bus Community Meetings
Projected to eventually serve over 64,000 people every day, the arrival of Expo Phase II in Santa Monica will bring about a major change in the ridership of the city's...
Coming Up: More SMPD Crackdowns, Council to Honor Bob Holbrook, and Share the Holidays...
We'll be publishing on a holiday schedule this week, with a light day on Wednesday. But here's a quick run down of a couple important upcoming events: Santa Monica Police crack down again on...
How Are We Doing?
As we approach the two month anniversary of the launch of Santa Monica Next, we wanted to take a moment to ask you, our readers, how we're doing. We are proud of the work...
Meeting Saturday On Latest Bicycling Plans & Projects in Santa Monica, Featuring Assembly Represenative...
This Saturday city staff will be giving an update on bike plan implementation, the "MANGo" Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway project, and the proposed cycle track for the Colorado Esplanade. Former Santa Monica council member...
Reminder: Important MANGo Presentation Tonight!
With the potential to be greater Los Angeles's first neighborhood greenway, the Michigan Avenue Neighborhood Greenway represents an excellent opportunity for Santa Monica to create a safe, low-traffic route to get from the Bergamot area...
Southwest Corridor Cities Nominate Former SMPD Chief to Replace O’Connor on Metro Board
Earlier this morning, the "Southwest Corridor" cities voted for a new official to represent them on the Metro Board of Directors, replacing Santa Monica Councilwoman Pam O'Connor with Inglewood Mayor James Butts. The vote...
CEQA Reform Passes Senate for LOS, Basketball Team
Steinberg's hasty press conference after passage of SB 743
Last night, both California's Senate and Assembly passed SB 743, Senator Darrell Steinberg's legislation that was basically designed to streamline the environmental review for a proposed...
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...
Your Coverage of the Tongva Park Celebration
We've spent a lot of time talking Tongva Park since our launch in August, so we thought we'd turn over the coverage of this weekend's celebration to all of you.
Here’s the Video for Tour Da Arts, Vol. 5
Santa Monica Next was proud to participate in the Santa Monica Museum of Arts' Tour da Arts event last month and we're happy to share the official video of Tour Da Arts Vol. 5....
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