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SMPD Vice Squad Send Underage Looking Officers to Buy Liquor from Local Stores
As if it weren't difficult enough running a retail establishment in Santa Monica, the Santa Monica Vice Squad send underage people younger than 20, in to local businesses to see if they could buy...
Score One for Santa Monica, As 9th Circuit Upholds City's Anti-AirBNB Ordinance
The digital economy has had the effect of concentrating more and more wealth in fewer and fewer hands. As far as housing goes, the AIRBNB app allows well heeled millennials to rent apartments in...
End of Summer Comes Early, as SMMUSD Returns to School on Thursday August 22nd
All 16 public schools in the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District begin classes on Thursday, August 22nd. Parents and kids will need to figure out where they are going to be dropped off. The...
Satirical Video Focuses on LA's Skid Row While Imploring Tourists to Visit Los Angeles
A video newly posted on Youtube rolls video or homeless people living in tents on LA's infamous Skid Row, as a voice implores people to visit Los Angeles and engage in all the activities LA has to...
Ocean Avenue Remains Closed to Traffic For Two Weeks North of California Incline
One of America's most famous and beautiful streets, Ocean Avenue remains closed to traffic this week as workmen excavated a water main on an emergency basis to repair an underground water pipe....
Artist Timothy Uriah Steele creates "an apology to the spirit" of Bombay Beach
Having grown up in both a cult and suburban Americana, artist Timothy Uriah Steele provides a unique and provocative journey with his work to showcase transcendence. When asked for his personal...
Protest at Santa Monica Pier Against Thirty Meter Telescope Planned for Mauna Kea
What participants described as a spontaneous protest against the University of Hawaii's Thirty Meter Telescope atop the worlds highest mountain, Mauna Kea, reached the Santa Monica Pier Sunday...
Festival of the Chariots Brings South Asian Color to Main Street in SM/Venice
International Society for Krishna Consciousness sponsored the 43rd Annual Festival of Chariots, in Santa Monica and Venice last Sunday, August 4th. "The Festival of the Chariots is based on an...
Possession of Child Porn Leads to Charges Against Cedars Sinai Director of AI
A 59-year-old Santa Monica man has been charged with distributing and possessing child pornography, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Guido Germano, 59 was charged...
Electrical Power Outage Friday Night In a Wide Swath of West Los Angeles. August 2, 2019
From Pico and Sawtelle to Bundy and Wilshire, the lights were out across a wide section of West Los Angeles Friday night. The blackout began around 7:39 pm PST. The power outage reportedly affected...
Lenny's Deli on Westwood Blvd Closes Due to a Combination of Bugs, Rent and Delivery Apps
Even a fifty year old restaurant is not safe in the era of food delivery apps. Or maybe it was the cockroaches that did Lenny's in. Lenny's Deli has announced that they will not be opening their...
Charges filed Against Rape Robbery Suspect on 17th Street and 18th Street Assaults
Authorities announced that they have filed charges on Fernando Venancio Jr., a 43-year-old male from Lynwood CA., for his involvement in a series of robberies and sexual assaults that occurred in Sant...
Lightning strike on Marina Del Ray Beach causes closure of west side beaches
A lightning strike on a beach in Marina Del Rey closed local beaches for about an hour Tuesday morning. This according to alerts from the City of Santa Monica. SM Alert Lightning Advisory - An...
As State Legislature Considers Ban on Rat Poison, LA City Council Struggles with Rats, Typhus.
While California's biggest city deploys rat poison, the California State Legislature simultaneously considers a ban on rat poison. As former US Vice President Dan Quayle said, irony is pretty ironic...
Work Begins on City Yard Modernization, Some Wonder about Recycling Center Closure
After three years of preparation, construction began this month on the modernization of the 14.7-acre Santa Monica City Yards located adjacent to Bergamot Station on Michigan Avenue. The City Yards ho...
Santa Monica's $39.5 billion in Assessed Real Estate Values Places in Third Among LA County Cities
According to the assessment roll from the LA County Assessor, Santa Monica's 25,000 or so assessor's parcels are collectively worth $39.5 billion. This places Santa Monica 3rd in the County of Los...
SMPD Shoots Musician After he Rushes them in Alley Off Lincoln Blvd Sunday Morning
Early Sunday morning, Santa Monica Police were attacked by Wolfgang Mountford, 29, in an alley off Lincoln Blvd, near Grant Avenue. Police say the man rushed them, an officer pulled his sidearm and fi...
Hollywood Feels Aftershock from Ridgecrest Earthquake on Tuesday
On Sunday afternoon at 12:40 pm PDT, many residents of Hollywood felt a small aftershock from the July 5th Earthquake. On July 4, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurred at 10:33 a.m. PDT in a low...
Federal Agents and NYPD Cops Arrest R Kelly on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges
Federal agents and New York Police Department Detectives said that they have arrested Grammy award winning singer R. Kelly, on sex crime and kidnapping charges. On July 11, 2019, Kelly was arrested...
My Time with Portrait Artist Don Bachardy
According to Merriam-Webster, exceptional is defined as better than average or superior. To me, 85 year old Don Bachardy fits that definition to a T. He is well renowned and has his artwork in many...
Hurricane Barry Moves North of New Orleans, as the City escapes Major flooding
Tropical Storm Barry did not cause major flooding in the Big Easy, and an alert for New Orleans has been cancelled. Mayor Cantrell held her last news conference on the storm, and the floodgates built...
ShakeAlertLA Backlash After Strong Earthquakes in LA
In what I thought would be a privatized business, ShakeAlertLA, which has been heavily criticized in the last few days, was actually created by the city of Los Angeles and its Mayor, Eric Garcetti....
FCC robocall ruling offers hope; in the meantime, just hang up on dodgy callers
WASHINGTON, DC, July 8 -- Seniors may get robocall relief if a new Federal Communications Commission [FCC] ruling prompts phone companies to implement technologies that automatically block them. Dan...
Independence Day Earthquake Felt Throughout Westside, 6.4 preliminary measurement
An earthquake at 10:33 am PST on July 4 was felt from Santa Barbara to San Diego, and as far East as Las Vegas. The temblor went on for over a minute. It was felt throughout the Westside of Los...
Main Street Independence Day Parade in Santa Monica Draws Crowds, quakes
Despite the earthquakes, Santa Monica conducted its annual parade on Thursday July 4, 2019. It lasted from 9:30 to 11 am. The 6.4 Richter scale temblor occurred at 10:19 am. The parade featured more...
