Santa Monica College (SMC) announces the release of the fall 2022 issue of Santa Monica Review, SMC’s esteemed national literary arts journal. Published twice yearly, the Review showcases the ...

The fault lies right here in Santa Monica, with the folks who thought they could say “No” to everything forever and not suffer any consequences. Currently the site is occupied by a Gelson’s ...

Santa Monica College’s John Drescher Planetarium continues its Friday evening events in November 2022 with free, live virtual shows presented online at smc.edu/planetarium. This month’s friendly presentations will explain how to buy a telescope,

Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. (DTSM) is honoring Día de los Muertos, highlighting the traditional Mexican cultural celebration of life and death, with live entertainment and a display of nine La ...

This will likely be amazing, based on the inspiration, and the line-up, pretty much a jazz hall of fame: the legendary (Santa Monica) drummer PETER ERSKINE, ALEX ACUÑA, BYRON MILLER, LUCIANA ...

The builder’s remedy window may now be closed, but with 16 new housing projects gaining state-issued permission to be built larger and denser than Santa Monica zoning rules would have allowed ...

Bus it!” to school event last Friday. The week-long initiative, coordinated by SMMUSD Sustainability Manager Austin Toyama and the City of Santa Monica, is a friendly, bi-annual competition ...

Santa Monica’s political climate has long stifled voices outside its political machine and we may have reached a point where the attitude of some Board members has galvanized a coalition that ...

A Los Angeles jury determined this week that the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) must pay out $45 million to the family of special needs twins after a behavioral aid at a ...

The following is an analysis of the race from the SMDP Editorial Board. The forecast of how this year’s council race will turn out hinges on whether you base your prediction on the city’s established history as a progressive bastion (and,

Students took the mic this week as hosts of a public forum with candidates running for the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board in the upcoming November election. The forum, held by the Samohi Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Executive Board and facilitated by three Samohi students on Tuesday night,

Early in this election season I urged the Daily Press and local voters to follow the (big) money to understand the real issue alliances in Santa Monica election year politics. “Change slate ...

While Santa Monica’s seems high at 14%, it’s on par with our neighbors and this proposal would increase that to 15% for hotels and 17% for homeshares. The measure is estimated to create about ...

Born and raised in Santa Monica, I am a proud product of SMMUSD. After graduating from Samohi in 2011, I attended SMC as a student-athlete, received 2 AA Degrees and transferred to UCLA. I have ...

Some of that land is useful — like Santa Monica Airport and Bergamot Station — and some of it is vacant, underutilized or otherwise “mothballed” — like the Civic Auditorium, which has ...

Do most people here want Santa Monica to be a dense, high-rise Miami Beach? There are those who do, and they may well be sincere, though some are certainly driven by the opportunity of personal ...

Grace Inez Adams Food and drinks come out with a bang at the recently opened Tu Madre restaurant in Santa Monica. Flights of margaritas are served accompanied by a sizzling firecracker and ...

Santa Monica College is a community college and by state law only allowed to have a single Bachelor’s degree program, which we currently have in Interactive Design.

The final count is in: 16 new medium- and high-density residential projects — most of them between nine and 15 stories  high — slipped through the door held open by a non-compliant Housing Element, allowing them to bypass local oversight and head straight into permitting under state rules.

Crime Watch is culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only. All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. On Saturday,, Officers responded to the CVS located near the 2500 block of Santa Monica Blvd for a theft report.