Major cell phone providers approached the City to install so-called “small cells” throughout Santa Monica in 2017. The Public Works department anticipates as many as 600 installations in the next few years. The small cells convert slow radio waves to ...

Kitchens are optional. In some cases, a housekeeper comes by to keep things tidy. Officials say it’s no coincidence that hundreds of apartments in Santa Monica sound more like hotel rooms, as landlords realize corporate rentals get around the city’s ...

After the first Twilight Concert of summer 2017 brought an estimated 50,000 people to Santa Monica, the City and the Santa Monica Pier Corporation have re-imagined the event for this year. Contemporary R&B singer, Khalid, kicked off last year’s summer ...

The Under 7 (U7) Santa Monica YMCA Stars basketball team won their game in convincing fashion over their Culver-Palms YMCA opponent this past weekend with a 29-7 victory. For the second weekend in a row, the Stars out rebounded their opponent by a wide ...

“In reviewing the existing Municipal 2 of 6 Code, the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) determined that it lacks a number of “non-auto” transportation device definitions that are included in the California Vehicle Code. Updating the Municipal ...

August marks the 25th anniversary of local nonprofit School on Wheels. School on Wheels began in Santa Monica with one tutor and now operates in six counties throughout Southern California. In 2010, it opened its flagship Skid Row Learning Center and since ...

Santa Monica decided to use funding from the prize to support resident-led action.” Through the application process, Microgrant applicants were encouraged to develop project ideas that would cross generations, build a sense of neighborhood belonging ...

“Fortunately they reversed it quickly enough before more damage could be done,” said Ross Gerber of Santa Monica investment firm Gerber Kawasaki, which holds Tesla stock. A big fan of both Tesla and Musk, Gerber nonetheless thought going private was a ...

Kathryn Whitney Boole has spent most of her life in the entertainment industry, which has been the backdrop for remarkable adventures with extraordinary people. She is a Talent Manager with Studio Talent Group in Santa Monica. [email protected]

Don Schultz, an 81-year-old Van Nuys resident, said he and his wife, Prudy, used to drive to Santa Monica on boiling-hot San Fernando Valley days. Traffic was light, parking was easy and a walk on the beach was pure air-conditioned pleasure. “Now we can ...

As Food Editor Jenn Harris reports in her weekly Restaurant News column, there’s also a new ramen shop in Chinatown that specializes in tsukemen; a new counter-service restaurant in Santa Monica from chef Vicki Fan Matsusaka; and a new restaurant in Echo ...

that will help integrate shared mobility devices safely into the Santa Monica landscape,” said the report. City fees for outdoor dining range from $1.97 to $6.56 per square foot depending on the level of enclosure and visual barriers. Staff is estimating ...

The punk rock icon ominously enters the stage. He begins to play music for his loyal crowd, and they go wild. The Santa Monica College campus flooded with attendees ready to see legendary Henry Rollins and celebrate the last of three KCRW Summer Nights ...

Miles O'Brien, recovering from his attack. Photo Courtesy of Miles O'Brien. A Santa Monica College student is recovering from cuts to his face, head and throat after a violent fight with a homeless man at Tongva Park early Friday morning. The attack ...

To address this, the Santa Monica City Council will consider an ordinance Tuesday, August 28 that would levy a $.98 per device per day fee on scooter companies. “The public right of way land is a valuable asset, designed primarily for the movement of ...

Photo: Courtesy. Cardboard, duct tape and a whole lot of fun. After their first week of school, kids in Santa Monica will be looking for some serious fun this weekend and the 7th Annual Cardboard Yacht Regatta at the Annenberg Community Beach House ...

“Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink,” wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the 1834 poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Coleridge was not writing about Santa Monica in this poem but he may as well have been. Santa Monica, like all of ...

The first day of the school year is in full swing in Santa Monica. Students are clad in backpacks with sharpened pencils in hand and ready for fresh academia while teachers are ready to mold impressionable minds. Edison Language Academy, a dual-immersion ...

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At 6:05 a.m. Thursday morning, a woman was shot in the thigh at the west end of the Santa Monica Pier. The woman remains in the hospital in stable condition while the shooter remains at large. “One of our local fishermen here contacted a Harbor Guard and ...