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May 23, 2012
Pico Youth and Family Center's Tearful Supporters Speak Out as Santa Monica City Council Considers Defunding
The Santa Monica City Council chambers were packed to the gills Tuesday night. The meeting was so full that Santa Monica policemen were acting as bouncers, keeping at least a hundred additional individuals at bay in the City Hall lobby. A large share of the attendees were supporters of the Pico Y ... More >>
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May 22, 2012
Baby Mountain Lion Killed by Santa Monica Cops After Wandering Into 2nd Street Courtyard
Updated at the bottom with a photo of the poor thing before it died. News helicopters swarmed above a glass business courtyard on Santa Monica's swanky 2nd Street all morning -- visible from rush hour on the PCH -- as Santa Monica police worked with Department of Fish and Game officials to round up ... More >>
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May 15, 2012
Lotería Opens (Again) on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica
Lotería pulled a sneaky stunt, opening in Santa Monica without telling a soul. But how could the fifth location of this Mexican chain not open on the fifth day of the fifth month of the year, which, as you of course know, was Cinco de Mayo? The official first day was to be May 14, but Jimmy Shaw, ... More >>
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May 14, 2012
Santa Monica Parking Meters Steal Time, Rollback to Zero After Every Car
The parking nazis have come to Santa Monica: No free minutes for you! New sensors that begin working today will cut meters' paid time down to zero once a space is empty, even if the woman who parked in a spot before you paid for way more time than she used. Yep. According to a city of Santa Monica ... More >>
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April 2, 2012
Santa Monica Sunday Farmers Market Seeks Musicians
Have a guitar? Like to warble Velvet Underground tunes in a voice huskier than an ear of corn? Play blues solos through an amp the size of a cereal box? If your idea of a good gig is creating a soundtrack for the ogling of vegetables and grass-fed beef, you may want to apply for the honor of prov ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
Santa Monica Spends Earthquake Plum on Ritzy Projects
Have a guitar? Like to warble Velvet Underground tunes in a voice huskier than an ear of corn? Play blues solos through an amp the size of a cereal box? If your idea of a good gig is creating a soundtrack for the ogling of vegetables and grass-fed beef, you may want to apply for the honor of prov ... More >>
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March 12, 2012
Fairmont Miramar Hotel Expansion, Including Seaside Towers, Opposed by Santa Monica Neighbors' Group
In this economy, you would think that folks would just roll over and let the rich guys have their way when they want to expand and develop properties. Despite L.A.'s wealth, it has a long history of challenging sprawl and growth. Some folks in Santa Monica today say the expansion plans of the beach ... More >>
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February 14, 2012
Flying Fugly: Museum of Flying at the Santa Monica Airport
Between Frank Gehry's house, the Bergamot Station complex and countless other condo developments, parking structures and strip malls around Santa Monica, the city could stand to implement a 10-year ban on corrugated metal-clad buildings.
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February 9, 2012
gr/eats Giant Robot Cafe Closing
Courtesy of gr/eatsIt looks to be an un-lovey Valentine's Day for gr/eats. Even as the stretch of Sawtelle between Santa Monica and Olympic experiences a raft of restaurant openings -- ramen shop Tsujita, cafes Balconi Coffee Company and Coffee Tomo, shaved ice shops Blockheads and Brian's Sh ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Lares Restaurant: Old School Beer Drinks at the Altar
jgarbeeThe Lares AltarIn L.A., where high-paid architects and interior designers seem as essential to a new restaurant's success as the choice of chef, walking into a well-worn local haunt like Lares in Santa Monica has that "welcome home" appeal that you can't buy. It's the sort of place whe ... More >>
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February 3, 2012
Can Paul Conrad's Mushroom Cloud Sculpture in Santa Monica Be Saved?
A controversy has been bubbling over Paul Conrad's anti-nuclear war sculpture in Santa Monica, Chain Reaction, and the latest fallout may spell the end of the 26-foot tall mushroom cloud near the city's Civic Center. With the deterioration of the steel, fiberglass and copper sculpture, mostly due t ... More >>
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January 26, 2012
Ovo
A controversy has been bubbling over Paul Conrad's anti-nuclear war sculpture in Santa Monica, Chain Reaction, and the latest fallout may spell the end of the 26-foot tall mushroom cloud near the city's Civic Center. With the deterioration of the steel, fiberglass and copper sculpture, mostly due t ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
The Annual All-New One-Time-Only New Year's Eve Revue
A controversy has been bubbling over Paul Conrad's anti-nuclear war sculpture in Santa Monica, Chain Reaction, and the latest fallout may spell the end of the 26-foot tall mushroom cloud near the city's Civic Center. With the deterioration of the steel, fiberglass and copper sculpture, mostly due t ... More >>
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December 23, 2011
Eat This Now: Romanesco Cauliflower
A. ScattergoodRomanesco cauliflowerAmong the many cool things you can find right now at local farmers markets is cauliflower, not only the traditional pale orbs and the very pretty purple and orange variations, but Romanesco cauliflower. A number of Romanescos in formation, like these on Alex ... More >>
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December 22, 2011
Holiday Food Drive Roundup
Bellmore LibraryDid you stock up on too much food for the holidays? Any Thanksgiving non-perishable leftovers? Make the most out of it and donate to these local food drives. According to the L.A. Regional Food Bank, the most coveted food products are rice, beans, canned meat, canned vegetable ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Top 6 Weekend Food Events: Grilled Cheese, Pho Night, Santa Monica Pub Crawl, Food & Film, Fugly Sweater Contest, Salt's Cure Tasting Brunch
Colin Young-WolffA scene from SantaCon 2010.Grilled Cheese & Soup For the final night of Breadbar's Food Truck Hatchi Series, the Grilled Cheese Truck stops by with a menu of eight grilled cheese sandwiches each paired with a different soups. There's the North African/Middle Eastern zaatar me ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Stout Brings Burgers to Studio City, Santa Monica
Courtesy of SpacecraftA rendering of Stout in Studio City.Another day, another Spacecraft CG rendering. This time it's the new locations of upscale burger and beer bar Stout, which is set to open outposts in Studio City and Santa Monica. (Despite the nightmarish parking in the Cahuenga Corrid ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
Santa Monica to Ban Late-Night Food Trucks on Main; City Council Apparently Unfamiliar With Drunk Munchies
curvewire.comSay your goodbyes, kiddos.Wack! The seven City Councilmembers occupying that gorgeous beachside Hall over in Santa Monica seem to have little idea what keeps the party people going a few blocks south. They've tentatively approved an ordinance that will ban food trucks on Main St ... More >>
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October 19, 2011
Best Foodie Raffle Ever: Win Dinner for a Year
Guzzle & NoshA trio of dishes from Picca, one of the restaurants in the Dinner For A Year raffle.In terms of risk-to-reward ratio, the Virginia Avenue Project's annual raffle is tops. A $5 ticket enters you in a drawing to win 52 restaurant gift certificates. Yes, 52. That's one gift certific ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Plastic Bag Ban (And Paper Too) One Step Closer in City of Angels
Cristiano BettaLos Angeles County did it. And so did Santa Monica. But normally enviro-crazed L.A. City Hall has been lagging when it comes to banning the bags. This week, however, the city came a little closer to just such a ban of plastic bags at markets and stores. The L.A. Board of Publi ... More >>
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October 11, 2011
International Food Blogger Conference 2011: This Year, Blog on the Beach
If you're a Los Angeles food blogger, you might want to plan on spending the weekend of November 11-13 scribbling on your iPad and uploading pictures of chocolate-dipped madeleines in Santa Monica, rather than in your kitchen somewhere else. No, Roy Choi is not holding a pop-up kimchi and tac ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
Anna Bjorn, Miss Iceland 1974 and Hollywood B-Lister, Outed Whitey Bulger for $2 Million
Oh, Santa Monica -- where former Boston mobsters and Iceland beauty queens go to co-retire in the lovely sea breeze. The Boston Globe is reporting that Anna Bjornsdottir, Miss Iceland 1974 turned graphic designer and yoga instructor (so Santa Monica), was neighbors with most-wanted crime boss James ... More >>
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October 4, 2011
Surf Contest For Costumed Wave Riders in Santa Monica Halloween Weekend
The scariest thing we usually see at the beach in Santa Monica is a Euro-tourist in a mankini, but ZJ Boarding House, the Santa Monica surf shop, has a far spookier happening planned: Haunted Heats III, a now-annual surf contest that requires entrants to shred in costume. Sort of gives new meaning ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Sunset Junction Building Demolished as Silver Lake Activists Tried to Preserve it
Oops. A building at Sunset Junction that some local preservationists hoped they could, well, save, went under the bulldozer over the weekend. The Eastsider LA reports that the demo'd building once housed a beloved bookstore, A Different Light, that seemed to kick off Silver Lake's renaissanc ... More >>
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September 14, 2011
Graffiti House Celebrating Heal The Bay Targeted by Santa Monica Officials
Shannon CottrellArt in the Santa Monica streets -- and country club-adjacent.Update: We're told the artwork is coming down Monday. More deets at the bottom. First posted at 1:20 p.m. Friday. Shortly after the unveiling of pro-Heal the Bay graffiti art in front of a four-story Santa Monica ho ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
[Updated:] What's Up With the Original Hot Dog On A Stick?
Guzzle and NoshThe 65-year-old Santa Monica location is scheduled to close. Update: 9/12, 10:00 a.m. Laurie Sonia, executive vice president of Hot Dog On A Stick, says the plan for a demolition and rebuild is still in the works. HDOS still has to go through various city committees, including ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
Elderly Santa Monica Woman Plows Through Crowd of Children at Fourth of July Parade
Perez HiltonThe Affleck children, just out of harm's way.If you didn't hear about the near-disastrous car crash during Santa Monica's otherwise idyllic (bike traffic notwithstanding) Fourth of July parade last Monday, it's because the old woman behind the wheel, and the group of children she ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Host A Farmer: More Things To Do During Carmageddon
A. ScattergoodSanta Monica farmers market As you doubtless know, next weekend is Carmageddon, or the 2-day shutdown of the 405. Unlike many of us, the farmers who normally come to the Santa Monica farmers markets on the weekends will not be spending that time at home making Marcella Hazan's B ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Tender Greens: Pasadena & Santa Monica Openings
Checking in with Tender Greens, the locally-based salad chain continues to expand with two locations opening this summer. The first, in Pasadena, will open the week of July 7th, pending final inspections. The second, just around the corner from the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, should op ... More >>
LA Life
June 9, 2011
Best Politics Blog: Digby
Checking in with Tender Greens, the locally-based salad chain continues to expand with two locations opening this summer. The first, in Pasadena, will open the week of July 7th, pending final inspections. The second, just around the corner from the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, should op ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
June at L.A. Farmers Markets: Your Virtual Grocery List
Apriums at Ken's ProduceA. Scattergood It's June at Los Angeles farmers markets, bringing the season's first stone fruit -- apriums, nectarines, peaches -- as well as more cherries, late spring greens, blood oranges, Gaviota and tiny, tart wild strawberries, and even mulberries. The mulberri ... More >>
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June 1, 2011
Mini Sneak Peek Of L.A.'s Best Coffee App: 4 Coffee Bars
T. NguyenEspresso Cielo in Santa Monica If you read our interview with Mark Lamberton earlier today, you'd know that the London-based younger brother of Blue Crow Media's Derek Lamberton was recently dispatched to Los Angeles to swig untold cups of coffee as research for their upcoming L.A.'s ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
[UPDATED] All Hail the Chicken Car!
Guzzle & NoshThe Chicken Car.[Update: Even more advanced Google searches than the one we previously conducted reveal that the car was supposedly built by Steve Cantin of PetSitterVideos, who brought it to LA for use in a movie, where it was impounded, sold at auction and bought by race car dr ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
Jeweler at Store Favored by Jessica Simpson, Sandra Bullock, Robbed of $1.5 Million in Jewels During Lunch Stop in Santa Monica
susanfosterjewelry.comUpdate: Cops say the victim didn't work for Susan Foster Exquisite Fine Jewelry but might have made a sales call there before the robbery (more details after the jump). Suspect descriptions also after the jump. A man who works at a might have paid a sales visit to a Bre ... More >>
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April 19, 2011
Santa Monica Seafood Acquires its Main Rival
First, Santa Monica seafood restaurant I. Cugini announced it will close in June after over 20 years in business. Now, two of the oldest seafood companies in Los Angeles will become one. 72-year-old Santa Monica Seafood has bought its chief rival, acquiring the customer base, corporate name, inve ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
Santa Monica Police Shoot, Kill Suspect Said to Be in The Act of Stabbing His Ex
Santa Monica police opened fire on a man who was stabbing his ex, they say.Update: Santa Monica police tell the Weekly the woman's condition has been upgraded to "stable." More details after the jump. In a scene straight out of a crime thriller, Santa Monica police shot and killed a man they ... More >>
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April 12, 2011
Ron Hirsch, Synagogue Explosion Suspect, on a Greyhound to New York
Santa Monica Police DepartmentRon Hirsch is suspected of trying to blow a hole in the Chabad HouseUpdate: Santa Monica police say they nabbed the suspect last night in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where he was lurking near another synagogue. More after the jump. The homeless man suspected of pla ... More >>
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April 8, 2011
Possible Pipe-Bomb Explosion at Santa Monica Synagogue Prompts Mass Evacuation
Santa Monica PatchUrgent update: The explosion WAS CAUSED BY GUN POWDER, police say. Details after the jump. Update, April 7, 11 a.m.: Santa Monica police and the FBI confirm that this was not a bomb, but some sort of mechanical issue within the building. The evacuation will soon be lifted. ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Brazen Santa Monica Carjack-Turned-Sex Assault Reported: Two Masked Men Described
Steve LyonThe crimes were reported in the area around the Santa Monica Water Garden.A scary sex crime is being reported out of Santa Monica. A woman says two men who covered their faces with bandanas carjacked and sexually assaulted her over the weekend in the neighborhoods south of the San ... More >>
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February 18, 2011
Hey, L.A.: If You Want Your Future Kid to Have the Best Birthday Ever, Have Sex. Right Now.
There's about to be a pretty sweet-lookin' day on the calendar, if you hadn't noticed: November 11, 2011, or 11-11-11. Adorable, right?! It's like a nice little row of golf flags, or a line of Santa Monica palm trees on a windy day, or wilty grass, or something. It is, in fact, so sweet-look ... More >>
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January 12, 2011
Fig Garcia Organic Farm Team Up For Farm Dinner
Flickt/madid# While the rest of the country is stuck under three free of snow and ice, an L.A. "winter" means we're still able to get up early, throw on our stylish (if completely unnecessary) Uggs, beanies and gloves and head to the Santa Monica farmer's market for sweet peaches, corn, straw ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Eat and Drink Well for Auld Lang Syne on New Year's Eve 2011
So, it's time to plan New Year's Eve if you haven't already. Avoid the amateur's night problem by putting your 2011 celebration in the hands of restaurant pros who will handle the fine food and drink part. And save you clean-up troubles. Merriment, cheer, reflecting on the past year (which may or ma ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
SKATE YOUR WAY TO HAPPINESS
So, it's time to plan New Year's Eve if you haven't already. Avoid the amateur's night problem by putting your 2011 celebration in the hands of restaurant pros who will handle the fine food and drink part. And save you clean-up troubles. Merriment, cheer, reflecting on the past year (which may or ma ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
Broadway Deli in Santa Monica Closes
Star ForemanBroadway Deli Broadway Deli, which Bruce Marder and Marvin Zeidler opened in 1990 on the Santa Monica promenade, closed its doors for the last time on Monday. Santa Monica Daily Press reports that the lease had expired, the rent had tripled, and Marder and Zeidler were threatened ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
L.A. Marathon Changes 'Stadium To The Sea' Route To Include Chinatown, Little Tokyo
Ghost TheoryBack in the day, hardcore L.A. Marathoners took to the 6th Street BridgeThe ever-glammer L.A. Marathon just keeps on picking up new tourist-friendly detours. Last year, it snubbed the downtown-centric route it had modified only slightly over many years, instead directing runners t ... More >>
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November 8, 2010
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 >>
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October 29, 2010
From Rated G to Around R: 2010 Food Halloween Happenings
Photo: Andy ReaserSome good, morbid Día de los Muertos creative fun. We've all been getting into the groove of fall foods and pumpkins and such. And in case you haven't stepped foot in a drug or grocery store since September, it's also that time of year when high fructose corn syrup gets shi ... More >>
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October 25, 2010
Santa Monica Farmers Market All-You-Can-Carry Pumpkin Patch
LA Weekly Flickr pool/Lucyrk in LApumpkins As you can doubtless tell by all the paraphernalia up in peoples' yards, Halloween is this weekend. Get out your candy baskets, shrink your apples, whatever. Perhaps the best holiday accouterments are pumpkins, especially since you can actually cook ... More >>
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October 22, 2010
Santa Monica Police Kill Man After He Allegedly Shot A Woman
SMPDSanta Monica police fatally shot a man Friday night.Updated throughout with details. First posted at 10:34 p.m. A man was killed by police in Santa Monica Friday night in a rare pair of shootings in the coastal, Westside city. According to reports it started about 6:15 p.m. when the sus ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
"VIP" Brunch at Pier Del Sol this Sunday
mountainnightdotcom/FlickrSandwiches at last year's event Regular tickets to this Sunday's Pier del Sol in Santa Monica cost $45. However, VIP tickets run a cool $150. As we always ask ourselves in these situations, what are the VIPs getting that the regular folks aren't?
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