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Articles from the April 28, 2014 edition


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  • John Muir Elementary School Spelling Bee

    Apr 28, 2014

    State Senate Candidate and SMMUSD Board Member Ben Allen, presides at a spelling bee conducted at John Muir Elementary School....

  • City Council Votes On Plan To Restrict Aviation At SMO

    Apr 28, 2014

    The city of Santa Monica's efforts to discourage aviation activity at Santa Monica Airport (SMO) have had the desired effect. Piston aircraft operations have dropped 29 percent since landing fees were raised 2.5-fold last year and made applicable to all airport users, including based tenants. At the same time, the effect on business aircraft users of the airport doesn't seem as profound. One corporate operator toldAIN that even though his company is now paying almost three times as much for...

  • Fire Agencies on High Alert

    Apr 28, 2014

    Fire agencies across Southern California were on high alert and planning to beef up crews in wildland areas due to hot weather and powerful Santa Ana winds expected to last through Thursday. The Los Angeles Fire Department announced that extra crews would be deployed in brush areas beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday and be on duty for at least 24 hours, depending on weather conditions. The crews are scheduled to staff 21 additional fire engines and five lightweight brush patrol vehicles, among other...

  • New Pico Branch Library Opens to the Public

    Ready, set, read! The Pico Branch Library, 2201 Pico Boulevard, is now open. The new neighborhood library is the first addition to the Santa Monica Public Library system in more than 50 years. Nestled in between the Thelma Terry Center and the Farmers Market zone, the Pico Branch is located in the heart of the Virginia Avenue Park campus and is designed programmatically to enhance early literacy, lifelong learning, and to complement Park programs. The Pico Branch is stocked with a brand new...

  • Local News Briefs

    Apr 28, 2014

    PCH Construction Threatens Business: Construction work along Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica is being blamed by some local businesses for a steep drop in revenue. Traffic along State Route 1 has slowed considerably since the city of Los Angeles began construction in early April on a sewer line that will divert polluted dry-weather water runoff from canyons leading to the Santa Monica Bay and transfer it to the Hyperion Treatment Plant. The effort marks the city’s second attempt after plans to build more than a mile of new 4-foot-high s...

  • Santa Monica High School Student Ryan Roberts Wins Prestigious First-Place Grand Prize in Spotlight Awards

    Christine Peake|Apr 28, 2014

    By Christine Peake Local Santa Monica High School senior Ryan Roberts was deservedly named the first–place grand prize winner in the classical instrumental category (oboe) at the 26th Annual Music Center Spotlight Awards. Born and raised in Santa Monica by parents Birgit (Exec producer at HIFI music company) and father Kevin who is a renown Director of Photography, Ryan was surrounded by the arts and music as he grew up as a big brother to pretty sister Maya, herself an accomplished violinist a...

  • Free Music and Arts Festival: Venice Spring Fling 4

    Back for a fourth year of fun, Venice Spring Fling music and arts festival returns to the beach to rock the heart of Venice with a free, full day of art, music, and dance on Saturday, May 31, 2014, from 11 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. at Windward Plaza (1 Windward Avenue, between the boardwalk and the bike trail). The festival features musical entertainment, an art show, food trucks, Dr. Bronner'sMagic Foam Experience, and more. The festival is free and open to the public. An after-show immediately follows...

  • Actors' Gang Embarks On International Tour

    Apr 28, 2014

    The actor’s Gang embarks on an international tour with William Shakespear’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM DIRECTED BY TIM ROBBINS Robbins and the Theatre Company will take the Production to Beijing, ChinaJune 10th–15th, Shanghai, China June 19th – 21st and to Italy June 28th–July 6th at the Spoleto Festival, APRIL 28, 2014 – The Actors’ Gang, the critically acclaimed Los Angeles based ensemble Theatre Company, will be heading overseas bringing William Shakespeare’sA Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Academy Award® winner Tim Robbins, to inte...

  • SANTA MONICA CRIME WATCH

    Antje Weser|Apr 28, 2014

    Two Allegedly Drunk Men End Up in Jail after Resisting and Threatening Police Santa Monica Police say officers responded to the area of 4th St. and Colorado Ave. regarding a report of two men threatening to shoot mall security. They say the incident happened on April 27 at approximately five in the afternoon. Lawmen report it all started when the two were causing a disturbance at the Nike store located at the Santa Monica Place Mall. When security intervened, they say, one of the men pulled out...

  • STERLING RECEIVES LIFETIME BAN

    Mitch Chortkoff, Sports Editor|Apr 28, 2014

    After NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced Tuesday morning the voice on the racial rant alleged to be Clippers owner Donald Sterling is indeed Sterling the commissioner took action. Sterling has received a lifetime ban from the NBA and fined $2.5 million. He will not be permitted to attend Clipper games or practices or appear in the team's offices. Silver also said the league will attempt to convince Sterling to sell the team. Pressure is on to get a quick vote from the NBA Board of...

  • Sterling's Wife Attends Clippers' Victory

    Mitch Chortkoff, Sports Editor|Apr 28, 2014

    Shelly Sterling, the estranged wife of ousted Clippers owner Donald Sterling, wanted to attend the team’s Game 5 victory over the Golden State Warriors Tuesday night but didn’t know if she’d be welcome. Considering the fact her husband had been banned for life from NBA arenas earlier in the day she had reason to be concerned. She sought out Coach Doc Rivers for permission, which was granted. Shelly, who usually sits in a courtside seat, watched this game from a suite, protected by secur...

  • The Chief Obstacle

    Bosmat Eynav|Apr 28, 2014

    Many words were written about the stab in the back that the Clippers got from their owner, and many more words on the subject will follow... on my end, I'd like to add one word - I am ASHAMED. I'm so ashamed that right on holocaust remembrance day, while i'm lighting a memorial candle for the innocent souls of six million jews, my people, who were slaughtered with cruelty due to extreme racism, a jewish man would allow himself to express himself so disgracefully towards other human beings, and e...

  • Movie Review THE QUIET ONES

    debbie lynn elias|Apr 28, 2014

    Hammer Films is iconic when it comes to the history of film and horror films in particular. Thanks to a steady stream of B-movies with stunning production values, talents like Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing became household names. Revived and reinvigorated in the 21st Century, Hammer has been the name behind such recent hits as "The Woman In Black" starring Daniel Radcliffe and the Matt Reeves directed "Let Me In" adapted from the Swedish smash "Let the Right One In." Furthering the 21st...

  • Santa Monica Fire Department Serves as Host to Australian Firefighter during Fellowship

    Station Officer, Michael Yates, from the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Australia, currently serving as Recruit Course Coordinator with the Queensland combined Emergency Services Academy in Brisbane Queensland, will begin a one-four month fellowship with the Santa Monica Fire Department's Training Division in May. The focus of study and research is the American Fire Service Training methods and processes. He will work in the SMFD Training Division and eventually have the opportunity to...

  • Yard Sale

    Apr 28, 2014

    Hot for teacher: Elaine West, a teacher at crossroads middle school, cleaned out her garage on a Saturday. In grand SantaMonica tradition she offered the contents to the public as a sidewalk sale...

  • Blaine Watson

    Apr 28, 2014

    Students arrive at Santa Monica high school in the morning under the watchful eyes of S house principal Blaine Watson...