Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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11: Four thieves were caught in the act of stealing catalytic converters from residents' automobiles, writes Lt. Erika Akulfi of the Santa Monica Police Dept. They had in their possession 4 catalytic converters, various saws, and cocaine. SMPD officers were called to the 2200 block of 22nd Street just after 2 am Friday morning. A caller said that a grand theft auto had just occurred. The 911 caller reported that several subjects had just removed the Catalytic Converter fr...
Santa Monica Place will transform into a winter wonderland and offer an array of festive activities for the whole family to enjoy this holiday season. Visitors will have the chance to take photos with Santa and shoppers can bring their four-legged friends to meet Santa during Pet Nights. Throughout December, visitors and shoppers will catch special holiday entertainment by the dancing sensation, Santa Monica Beach Belles, a cappella performances by the Oceanaires, as well as...
Megyn Kelly isn't buying the San Francisco Police Department's version of events as it investigates the assault on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, notes the New York Post. "I know enough to smell a rat," the former Fox News and NBC star said during her podcast on Monday. During an interview with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on her SiriusXM podcast on Monday, Kelly blasted any notion that the attack on Paul Pelosi, 82, was politically motivated, pointing out that the...
The last 50 years is proof that grassroots efforts do pay off and that you can fight City Hall. To showcase the events of two groups of passionate citizens in the 1970s that worked to save the Pier from the Santa Monica City Council's plan to build a 35-acre artificial island in the bay with a bridge connecting it to the Santa Monica freeway, the "Save The Pier" play free live performances will be held on the West End of the Pier each day on Oct. 20-23 from 7-8:30 p.m. In the...
UPDATE: October 12, 2022 - At 6:45 pm, a Facebook posting on The Lighthouse, a Place of Refuge, showed a video of a woman announcing that Haydne Wilson, a 23-year-old woman who has been missing since September 29, had been found. A Los Angeles Times article stated that Haydne suffered psychotic symptoms similar to schizophrenia due to a bout with long Covid and had previously experienced a memory blackout in January, when she had also gone missing, though that time only for a...
Mayor Sue Himmelrich, with the assistance of new City Attorney Doug Sloan, refused to allow a vote on a motion by Councilmember Oscar de la Torre at last night's City Council meeting. The kicker? De la Torre's motion was an attempt to address Mayor Himmelrich's regular and significant violations of parliamentary procedure, which hinder efficient, effective, and fair City Council meetings. De la Torre raised a question of privilege affecting the assembly: In the spirit of...
Theater manager Aaron Marker (how's that for destiny in a name?) puts up the Marquee at the Aero Theater on Montana Avenue and 14th Street. Marker invites the public to an evening of French film "Bresson Les Dames" on September 22, 2022. The Aero Theater is sponsored by the American Cinematheque. The American Cinematheque is an independent, nonprofit cultural organization in LA, dedicated exclusively to the public presentation of the moving image in all its forms. Stars at...
The Santa Monica Housing Commission cordially invites you to a special meeting with VIP guest Demetria McCain, HUD Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, for a moderated Q & A on affirmatively furthering fair and affordable housing in the City of Santa Monica, followed by a listening session where the Housing Commission, residents, public officials, staff, and other members of the public will have an opportunity to share...
A Brighter Future (ABF), a newly formed PAC, endorses four experienced parent leaders for the SMMUSD School Board election on November 8, 2022: - Angela DiGaetano- Esther Hickman- Stacy Rouse- Miles Warner The ABF candidates bring experience in school governance and knowledge of SMMUSD from the perspective of both current parents and alumni. Once elected to the school board they will: - Prioritize education, students and teachers; - Exercise fiscal competency to spend our tax...
Alexander Levin of Santa Monica studied Chinese (Mandarin) for six weeks through a National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI‐Y) Virtual Summer Intensive scholarship. NSLI‐Y is a program of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) that promotes the study of Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Persian (Tajiki), Russian, or Turkish among American youth. The 2022 NSLI-Y Virtual Summer Intensive program was a v...
One half of the stoner-hippie comedic duo Cheech and Chong, Richard "Cheech" Marin has become perhaps one of the most well-known and respected Chicano achievers in the world of entertainment. As an actor, director, writer, musician, art collector and humanitarian, Cheech is a man who has proven that he has the intellect and wit to make a simple smile appear in any situation. At the side of his partner Tommy Chong, he enjoyed immense off-color comedic success in the 1970's...
Trial has concluded in a class action lawsuit against the Los Angeles Archdiocese. The trial is before Judge Elihu Berel in downtown LA. Berel will decide whether the Church is on the hook for paying out cemetery maintenance funds, in a sexual molestation case against the Church that settled 15 years ago. There is no jury. 10 members of the class action testified against the Church. 2 members of the class who opted out of the class action also testified, as did various witness...
If you've ever dreamed of owning your own medical waste disposal equipment, now is your chance. A medical waste treatment facility in Hesperia that opened just 5 years ago, has closed. The owners who foreclosed on the real estate, are selling the waste disposal equipment at a fraction of the oroginal cost. Equipment to be sold includes a thermal oxidizer and (wait for it) even a patented Carbonizer. The press release follows. HESPERIA, CA – July 28, 2022 - Recycling and wa...
"I attended the Morgan-Wixson Theatre production of Cinderella on opening night. This is an ambitious, diverse, non-traditional casting of this great musical. Santa Monica's Morgan Wilson Theatre was founded in 1946 and this is the first main stage play since the beginning of the pandemic. Support your neighborhood theatre and its actors by seeing this musical before it closes July 31st!" -- Phil Brock From the press release: The musical CINDERELLA at the Morgan-Wixson...
Santa Monica Travel and Tourism and Santa Monica Place will host a job fair on Tuesday, July 12 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. The fair will be held on the third floor Dining Deck. Businesses in attendance include a sample of local businesses. The list includes hotels, resorts, stores and restaurants. Names of participating businesses: 1212 Santa Monica, All Saints Banter by Piercing Pagoda, Bristol Farms, CycleBar Santa Monica, ETC Hotels (Shutters on the Beach and Hotel Casa Del M...
A Change.org petition seeks to express a public vote of no confidence in the Mayor: "The undersigned members of the Santa Monica community support a vote of no confidence in Mayor Sue Himmelrich for the following reasons: 1. Complete disconnect from and denial of residents' needs, most importantly public safety. Disregarded results of every City-sponsored survey regarding crime, police presence, Parking Garage 3, and more. 2. Continued failure to lead on addressing the homeles...
A very vivid picture has emerged of mandatory lockdowns in Shenzhen Province. Sometimes called China's Silicon Valley, Shenzhen province has a population of 20 million people. The following is from a post on Twitter: I'm in Shenzhen now, where I live. The video of the man being shamed for climbing the fece for food is the desperation we can all feel after just one week. The building I live in is completely shut off by a big metal gate that's guarded 24/7. Tests are done every...
During the fighting in the Mariupol region, the deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet, captain of the first rank Andrey Paliy, was killed. This was reported by the governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev and the senator from Sevastopol Ekaterina Altabaeva . The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has not officially confirmed the death of Paly. Paliy graduated from the Kiev Higher Naval Political School in 1992 with a degree in social psychology. The following...
Homeless men often congregate in front of the Salvation army in Downtown Santa Monica. When one of them stabbed another, SMPD Officers were sent to investigate. The following is from their press release. SMPD officers were dispatched to Salvation Army (1533 4th Street) to investigate an Assault with a Deadly Weapon, at around 1:15 am on March 7th. A witness provided a description of the suspect and continued to watch the suspect. SMPD Officers responded quickly and detained...
A video of Russian President Vladimir Putin addressing the Interpreters Union discuss sanctions imposed on his country this morning Putin: "Russia becomes a part of the world economy. We are not going to hurt the system that we are part of. And we are there, and I think our partners should understand that. And to not push us outside this system. "We had no choice but to invade Ukraine. Of course some of the restrictions will happen, because of the politics of it. I want to...
2/20/22 Bernie Madoff's sister and her husband died from gunshot wounds at their home, authorities said today. They added that the case was being investigated as a murder-suicide. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office announced that they would inquire into the deaths of Sondra Wiener, 87, and Marvin Wiener, 90, after their deaths at their home in Boynton Beach, Fla., "Deputies responded to a 911 call advising a male and female were unresponsive inside their residence," the sh...
9: LASC Judge Mitchell Beckloff has ordered the City of Santa Monica not to demolish parking structure 3 and replace it with homeless housing, unless and until certain procedural requirements to do so have been met. The Superior Court order is a major setback in the City's continuing campaign to replace parking with homeless services. Referring to 2006 and 2011 Environmental Impact Reports filed by the City, the Court ruled: "For purposes of this motion, the court finds...
Update: The woman in this accident reportedly later died. The Santa Monica Police are appealing for the public's health in identifying a hit and run driver who struck a pedestrian an hour after midnight on Halloween morning. On October 31, 2021 at about 12:57 am, the vehicle pictured above, struck a pedestrian in the crosswalk at the intersection of 3rd Street and Wilshire Blvd., causing serious bodily injury to the pedestrian before fleeing, writes SMPD Lt. Rudy Flores. "The...
Local Briefs A group of local residents and business people are trying to talk the City out of an ill considered plan to tear down a downtown Santa Monica parking structure, and replace it with "affordable Housing." The group says it has gathered 5000 signatures on a petition. The group's press release reads as follows: "This morning a group of Santa Monica residents and business owners delivered individual packages to Mayor Sue Himmelrich, members of City Council and the...
Annenberg Beach House conducted its 8th annual cardboard yacht races on Saturday. 47 teams participated. The results of the soggy sailing competition were as follows: Youth/Youth category, 1st place The Zeetano, 2nd place EMS, 3rd place Titanic 2.0 Youth/Adult category: 1st place Old Faithful, 2nd place The Duct Tape Duck, 3rd place Ships-a-Wreck Adult/Adult category: 1st place SS Whale Shark, 2nd place Bowser’s Airship, 3rd place Kon-Leaky And award winners: Marion Davies A...
