The American Library Association announced this week that Patricia "Patty" M. Wong, city librarian at the Santa Monica Public Library in Santa Monica, Calif., has been elected ALA president for 2021-2022. Wong received 6,718 votes. Her opponent, Steven Yates, assistant director of the University of Alabama School of Library and Information ...

Santa Monica issued a revised supplemental order that strengthens the City's eviction moratorium in response to the deepening impacts"

He shows how to use features of your home to create compelling architectural photography. Adrian from Apple Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica heads up the third class, "Shoot photos full of personality with iPhone." This class is focused on showing how you can up your portrait photography game through scene staging and utilizing the iPhone ...

Jennifer Garner paid tribute to the hardworking first responders during the current coronavirus pandemic. The “13 Going on 30” star posted a photo of herself with members of the Santa Monica Police Department on her Instagram Stories last night.

A more significant drop next month will have devastating effects, they added. Neil Shekhter, whose companies own 2,200 apartments in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, said about 85 percent of his tenants had paid their rent as of April 7. “When you lose 15 percent of your rental revenue,” he said, landlords begin to not have enough money to pay ...

The manager of Rose Namajunas says the former UFC strawweight champion won’t fight at UFC 249 on April 18 after two deaths in her family related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Where was the biggest rent hikes in the region? Santa Monica, where its $3,929 rents, the highest in SoCal, rose at a 5.36% annual pace in March vs. declining 0.29% a year earlier (so a 5.65 percentage-point jump). List of 95 cities and their rent trends is below.

In Cincinnati, police logged an average of 384 traffic stops per week before mid-March but 39 per day after — a 90% drop. In Santa Monica, California, traffic stops fell from 182 a week to 14. They fell 79% in Baltimore and 46% in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In many regions, the traffic-stop declines dovetailed with fewer DUI incidents ...

"Since highlighting hair involves bleach, it takes a lot of time and knowledge to do it correctly," says Meri Kate O'Connor, a colorist at Tabb & Sparks in Santa Monica, CA. "Your highlights can turn out spotty and orange if you don't know what you're doing and, chances are, you'll need to get them fixed if you attempt them yourself."

Los Angeles landmarks joined a nationwide effort Thursday night to "Light It Blue" in honor of health-care workers and others on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. City Hall, Staples Center,