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Five Dance Shows to See This Week, Including Balanchine's "Rubies"

This week's dance events include Los Angeles Ballet with Balanchine Festival Red, visitors from Canada, and a last chance to meet Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre at the Oasis. See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Thing ... More >>

Santa Monica College Bomb Scare Prompts Evacuation

Updated at the bottom: It's over. First posted at 1:25 p.m. Another day, another bomb scare. After the terrorist bombings in Boston last week, police in the L.A. area have had their hands full with fake threats and unattended bags. Today, it's Santa Monica's turn:

Earth Angels

We Attended the KCRW Pledge Drive - And Lived to Tell the Tale!

It's pledge drive time again at KCRW. twice a year, the station -- one of the pre-eminent public radio stations in the country -- interrupts regular programming to ask for money. But this isn't your typical "send us five bucks and we'll mail you a bumper sticker" pledge event. No no, this one has Co ... More >>

Santa Monica College-Adjacent Shooting Injures Teenage Woman; Waiverly Thomas Arrested

People are often surprised to learn that Santa Monica has crime, gangs or a historic barrio near Santa Monica College. It does. A shooting over the weekend proved that point. An 18-year-old woman was gunned down on Pico Boulevard but survived with non-life-threatening injuries, according to Santa ... More >>

Comments: For-Profit Colleges and the Life of Henry Rollins Draw in Our Readers

Embarrassment of Riches

Pepper Spraying of Students Won't Stop Santa Monica College's Two-Tier Class Pricing

Updated at the bottom: Maybe it will. First posted at 3:55 p.m. Thursday. Despite a pepper-spray incident that made national headlines, Santa Monica College is sticking to its plans to implement a two-tier pricing system that would nearly quadruple the costs for popular courses. A protest against ... More >>

Santa Monica College Protesters Pepper Sprayed: VIDEO

Students protesting a proposed class-free hike at Santa Monica College tonight were hit by pepper spray from cops. Video (after the jump) depicts some of the mayhem. The demonstrators are unhappy with a plan to possibly quadruple fees to $180 per unit or more for the most popular classes, which are ... More >>

Samantha Scarano, Stripper in WeHo Arson Case, Daughter of Murdered Crime Crusader Erika Scarano? PHOTOS

The story of Samantha Scarano, accused of setting her ex-roommate's West Hollywood apartment on fire, got even more interesting overnight. After Weho Daily broke the news that Scarano was arrested at her place of work, the legendary Body Shop strip club, a tipster told us that she was the daughter ... More >>

Shaka Shack: A Burger You Should Know About

There's skill on the grill at Shaka Shack, an island-themed burger joint on the south side of Santa Monica College. Tricked out with mismatched vintage furniture, moai figurines and a wall-sized print of a dreamy island sunset, Shaka Shack has the laid-back vibe of a beachside café -- but with fa ... More >>

Best Korean Shaved Ice: Hwa Sun Ji Tea and Coffee

Lost in the smoky haze of cigarettes and Korean BBQ that envelops much of Koreatown is the most civilized, most quiet, most splendidly restful tea shop in town, where straw mats hang from the ceiling, separating tables, where chairs are covered in pillows and where lanterns are strewn throughout the ... More >>

Arthur S. Rodríguez, Cesar Chavez's Grandson, Arrested in Occupy L.A. Raid: UFW 'Proud'

UFWArthur Rodriguez.​Arthur S. Rodriguez, the grandson of labor and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, was arrested as part of the raid on the L.A. City Hall Occupy encampment last week. Arturo S. Rodriguez, his father and the president of the United Farm Workers group that Chavez made famous ... More >>

'Occupy Colleges' Campus Walkout Today Has L.A. as Epicenter: UCLA, Cal State Northridge, Santa Monica College Participate

We had a little fun with the two-man "Occupy USC" operation yesterday. Perhaps the rich kids' school identifies more with the 1 percent of billionaires that is the ire of the Occupy Wall Street movement that started in New York a few weeks back and branched out to L.A. this week. It looks like the ... More >>

GOOD Food Festival: Events Overview

Guzzle & NoshThe Sunday Santa Monica Farmers Market.​The GOOD Food Festival kicks off today and runs through Sunday, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Santa Monica Farmers Market, not the anniversary of our favorite food-based radio show. The four-day festival includes a film screening, ... More >>

Santa Monica College on Lockdown Following Report of Man With a Gun

SMC.​Update: A campus police official tells the Weekly, "All clear -- we are off lock-down." Also, at bottom, how a frightened young woman set the whole thing off. First posted at 12:07 p.m. Santa Monica College was on lock-down early this afternoon after there was a report of a gunman on cam ... More >>

Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy

Brick's Picks: Safe Bet, Reptet

Santa Monica Police Search For Two Suspects Who Kidnapped, Raped Woman In Broad Daylight

Google MapsPolice said a woman was abducted in Santa Monica before being attacked.​One of the scariest crimes to rock the Westside in several months happened late last month but wasn't publicized by Santa Monica police until last week. It appeared to involve the kidnapping, rape and robbery o ... More >>

Hey Santa Monica College, LACC, Pierce College, Pasadena City College: Students Can Transfer To Cal State Without Getting Screwed On Credits Under New Law By Sen. Padilla

Santa Monica College​Besides the cost of car insurance, realizing you're probably not going to get that Ferrari by age 30, and having to wait in line to get into clubs, you know what really sucks about being young? Going to a California community college for a couple years only to have to start ov ... More >>

Sabrina Venskus: Staring Down Goldman Sachs

Experimental beatmaster Daedelus attempts to live remix 'The Ring'

Experimental beatmaster Daedelus attempts to live remix 'The Ring'

Brick’s Picks: Thelonious Assault

WHO’S YOUR DREAMER?

Murder Trial For Alleged Santa Monica Gangsters Set For This Month

Google MapsWoodlawn Cemetery.​Four men accused of murdering a popular man in Santa Monica's Pico neighborhood are headed to trial later this month after a judge deemed there was enough evidence to try them. The May 11, 2008 discovery of Preston Brumfield's body in the community set off a maj ... More >>

Spiritual Voice Of KCRW To Retire

KCRW (89.9 FM) general manager Ruth Seymour announced Wednesday that she's retiring after 32 years running the public station out of Santa Monica College. She said she'll leave in February. Meanwhile, the college has already begun a search for a replacement.KCRWRuth Seymour​

Santa Monica Police Tear Into Local Gangs

Some find it hard to believe that Santa Monica, with a median housing price of $1.6 million, is home to two entrenched gangs. The residents of the Pico Neighborhood, near Santa Monica College, know the fact well.SMPDSanta Monica police patrol the not-so-mean Third Street.​ Preston Wayne Brumf ... More >>

GO LA: Gay Fusion, Jackie Kashian and the Gold Standard Food Festival

Plus, lots more to see, hear and consume in town, March 6-12

Brick's Picks: Ascending the Mountain

Jazz in L.A., February 6-12

Dance Pick: Synapse Dance Theater at the Broad Stage

SMC troupe takes the first dance at the new venue

First Dance

Synapse Dance Theater takes a bow at the Broad

Never Gonna Gibbon Up

What to do in L.A., April 11-17

Brick's Picks: Three-Horn Circus

Sanders, Garrett and Lloyd blow into town

Animal Spirits

"Endangered Species," Larry Bell

Grizzly Bear live on Morning Becomes Eclectic, Feb. 27

On Wednesday morning, the subterranean temple that is the KCRW studio complex on the campus of Santa Monica College played host to a great six-song set by Grizzly Bear, of Brooklyn, New York. Broadcast live on Nic Harcourt's Morning Becomes Eclectic show, the set, which you can listen to on the stat ... More >>

Moscow on the Mall

Anna's post-exam blues melt away on ice

Go Fourth and Boomify!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Achille Perilli, Marc Trujillo

At Istituto Italiano di Cultura

Tales of the (Inner) City

Running on Empty

Snap, Crackle, Punk

Naked Magicians and Funny Liberals

Revolutionary Fetishist?

Rick Castro explores ?the depths of the erotic soul

Get Naked for Gaia or Go Clean a Stream

Hoopla's Earth Day Edition

DEPTH BEHIND THE DECKS: THE ART OF URBAN GURU GARTH TRINIDAD

Independence Days

Bruce yet not Bruce, Ka-boom! And would Bill Haley have been invited to play the Warped Tour?

California Reamin’

Arnie’s rough ride in Santa Monica

The Spirit Survives

The Oldest Living Most-Promising Theater City in the World

Two festivals converge in L.A.

Drunken Santas