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Articles from the March 13, 2017 edition


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  • BOSTON Welcomes JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS Aboard The 2017 Hyper Space Tour

    Zane|Mar 13, 2017

    Music legends BOSTON continue their Hyper Space Tour this summer with the iconic JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS, for an additional 21 cities, presented by Live Nation. Performances with Joan Jett will begin on Wednesday, June 14 in Mountain View, CA at Shoreline Amphitheatre, and continue eastward across North America. More information can be found at livenation.com. Itinerary for the Live Nation portion of BOSTON's Hyper Space Tour with Joan Jett below. Presale for BOSTON and Joan Jett & The Black...

  • SMPD Conduct More Bicycle Safety Enforcement Operations

    Observer Staff|Mar 13, 2017

    The Santa Monica Police Department will be conducting Bike and Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Operations with focused enforcement efforts on primary collision factors involving motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists. The Police Department periodically identifies locations where bike and pedestrian collisions are prevalent, along with the violations that led to those collisions. In an effort to lower deaths and injuries, officers will be on duty patrolling areas where bike and pedestrian traffic...

  • Santa Monica's Prestigious Artlab to Present Cameron Lee's Debut Art Show, "Flores Fatales"

    Christine Peake|Mar 13, 2017

    Renowned artist Cameron Lee and husband Rigel Cable (Rigel Gemini) have collaborated on their first creative project, "Flores Fatales". Inspired by the striking and wide-ranging beauty of flowers, Flores Fatales celebrates human beauty, natural wonder, and elements of dangerous allure. The two parts in this queer creative duo are Cameron, a visual artist, and Rigel, a social media influencer who goes by @RigelGemini on Instagram. Flores Fatales will open at artLAB Salon in Santa Monica on...

  • Zero-Emissions-Capable Taxi Being Tested in Extreme Arctic Temperatures

    Zane|Mar 13, 2017

    New pictures from London Taxi Company (LTC) demonstrate part of the extreme testing program the all-new electric black cab is undergoing. Under way now in the lower reaches of the Arctic Circle, the regime to check the vehicle performance in even the harshest conditions will only get more stringent over the coming weeks, with the taxi set to be cooled down in giant fridges to -49°C. These checks seek to guarantee that the vehicle will always start, perform and enjoy class-leading electric...

  • SMCLC Decries Huge City of Santa Monica Luxury Hotel Development at 4th and Arizona Project

    Diana Gordon, SMCLC|Mar 13, 2017
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    To ensure a robust environmental analysis, a transparent process, and a project that results in the greatest number of benefits and the least number of harms to Santa Monica's residents and businesses, it is critical that the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) include a reasonable range of alternatives. Well established case law and CEQA regulations clearly spell this out. An EIR must analyze a "reasonable range of alternatives to the project," with an emphasis on alternatives which "offer...

  • Communications Satellite Failure Causes Local Directv Outage

    Stan Greene|Mar 13, 2017

    If your TV set is not working, it may not be because you forgot to pay the bill this time. Apparently the communications satellite upon which local Direct TV depends, hit a snag in space. It is not known how widespread the outage is at this time, but it has affected my set in Los Angeles. The failure of a satellite caused an outage for DirecTV customers in LA, at about 9:10 pm PST on Wednesday night, March 8, 2017. The company is probably aware of the problem and working to resolve it. No one...