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Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's

It's Free Cone Day at participating Ben & Jerry's across the nation. From noon to 8 p.m., customers can get a free cone of ice cream in the flavor of his or her choice, including classic, Greek Frozen Yogurt and newer flavors.

The Top 10 Bars in Santa Monica

Bordered by the Pacific, the Palisades and the 405, Santa Monica is home and host to every shade of bar and every breed of drinker. Tourists may be our bread and butter, but they're also the bane of our existence, and we prefer our drinking establishments to be minimally invaded by camera toting, di ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Battling Curators to Banana Splits

This week, there's a game show-style showdown in Santa Monica, a print fair at LACMA and a film that tours through facets of pre-invasion Baghdad showing in Eagle Rock. 5. Justin Bieber's leftovers Art Is Shit Editions, a fairly young, L.A.-based art publishing company that produces objects as well ... More >>

Demitasse Expands to Santa Monica

This just in -- one of our favorite coffeehouses, Demitasse, is expanding to Santa Monica. The new location will be at 1149 Third Street, just north of Wilshire. An opening date has not yet been set.

9 Silicon Beach Office Buildings and What They Say About Their Companies

See also: *More tech stories from L.A. Weekly *Fugly Buildings: Our Series on the Most Hideous Buildings in L.A. Since the arrival of Google in Venice last year, westside beach communities like Santa Monica, Playa Vista and others have seen an influx of tech companies, startups, investors and soft ... More >>

Hamlet at the Broad Stage and The Morini Strad at Colony Theatre, Reviewed

Art out of leftovers

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Meech's Prolific and Pineapple Quince

Quince, a tart Asian cousin to apples and pears, is a fruit almost like Michelangelo's women -- knobby, with large, nearly muscular curves and sloping, feminine hills that cast interesting shadows across its gravid belly. A natural web of knitted cellulose gives quince its shape as well as its ined ... More >>

Matthew Kenney's New Culinary School in Santa Monica Stirs The Local Gourmandise Pot

There's a new cooking school coming to town: chef Matthew Kenney's eponymous vegan culinary school is opening in Santa Monica this month (soft opening is Saturday), along with his vegan restaurant, M.A.K.E. The chef's growing empire includes restaurants in Chicago and Oklahoma City (where he also ha ... More >>

AIDS Walk Makes Big Deal of Big Blue Bus Ad Ban, Wrongly Cries 'Discrimination'

Organizers of AIDS Walk Los Angeles took aim today at the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus system, saying the organization is banning its ads as part of a "discriminatory policy." Craig Miller, founder of AIDS Walk and a Santa Monica resident, said in a statement: All these years later, to be dealing wit ... More >>

A Santa Monica Trailer Park — and Its Senior Residents — Face Off With Fancy New Development

Comments: Race to the Finish

Murder on Montana Ave.

Was LAUSD teacher Sasha Merman slain to hide Daniel Becerril's greed?

Top 3 Weekend Food Events: Vegan Beer Festival, Foie Gras Battle Michael McCarty's Farmer's Market Tour

L.A. Vegan Beer Festival Sample beers from more than a dozen breweries, including Anchor, Epic, Fireman's Brew, Golden Road Brewing, Green Flash, Hangar 24, Karl Strauss and Smog City at this vegan-friendly event hosted by Tony's Darts Away, blogger Quarry Girl and The Roxy. Vendors and trucks inclu ... More >>

Westsider Problems: Our Favorite GIFs From the Painfully Accurate 'When in L.A.' Tumblr

Westsider problems make regular old white-person problems look like a trip down the L.A. River without a paddle. In fact, the daily sighs of a Santa Monica twentysomething living with her girlfriends are so unproblematic as to actually be kind of enjoyable. From this charmed romantic-comedy lifest ... More >>

Santa Monica Street Sign Directs Large Vehicles to Park in Next-Door Venice Instead

Yo! VeniceDon't even think about it.​Neighborhood forum Yo! Venice has riled up some longstanding anti-Santa Monica sentiments today with a photo of a "No Parking" notice at the corner of Ozone Avenue and Seventh Street (see right). Bret, the forum's administrator, notes that the signage was ... More >>

307 Restaurants Participate in dineLA Fall 2011 Restaurant Week

Anne FishbeinSpicy chicken pops at Lukshon.​Ever wanted to try the Lukshon's squid stuffed with fermented ground pork or spaghetti at Scarpetta but can't afford it? dineLA, which returns for 12 days in early October, might be your chance. The restaurant promo returns October 2-7 and 9-14, and ... More >>

Beach Bathroom Bingo: Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects Gives Santa Monica Surfers A Privileged Place to Pee

Rendering courtesy the City of Santa Monica.The setup at each bathroom is unique, with the intention of creating a welcoming place.​ Crowded in your bathroom in the morning? Can't get your girl outta the shower? Try sharing sink time with millions -- and you've got the setup at the City of Sa ... More >>

April at L.A. Farmers Markets: Your Virtual Grocery List

A. Scattergood​ Spring has come to Los Angeles farmers markets, bringing stinging nettles and fennel, fava beans and English peas, as well as lilacs -- only available for a few weeks in Southern California -- and more citrus. Kumquats. Meyer lemons. Strawberries are particularly good this year ... More >>

Freeway Rick Ross: From drug-trafficking and CIA connections, to a biopic directed by Nick Cassavetes, the former 'Donald Trump of crack' becomes the patron saint of South Central

Sam SlovickRick Ross at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica​The wad of crumpled $20 bills stashed under Ollie North's pillow had Freeway Rick Ross' fingerprints all over it when the CIA got caught slanging rocks in South Central back in the '80s. Grimy, crumpled and smeared with ghetto ... More >>

Anupam Sanyal, 23-Year-Old Virginia Tech Student and Aspiring Musician, Dies in Late-Night Santa Monica Street Race

kalka182 via YouTube23-year-old Anupam Sanyal​Updated after the jump: Turns out Sanyal survived the Virgina Tech massacre of 2007. According to an LA Weekly commenter, he even tried to run in and stop the shooter. During what Santa Monica police believe to have been a street race down Wilshir ... More >>

Remembering Jose "Pepe" Rodriguez: La Serenata In Santa Monica And His Happy Hour

Yelp user Joan S. La Serenata Santa Monica, Never A Glass Wall​Most weeknights, the Santa Monica outpost of La Serenata, the "other" Mexican restaurant on 4th Street in Santa Monica, resonates with a post-tequila calm that pales next to the constant laugh track and cocktail shaker buzz at Bord ... More >>

Eat This Now: Almond Croissant from Old Village Bakery

Between Proof Bakery's strata and Black Cat's signature chocolate-and-cream cheese muffin (and even Sprinkles' new German chocolate cupcake), our de facto theme last week was baked goods. One more and we promise to stop... for a while. Almond croissants are particular passion of mine. I order the ... More >>

Malaysian Street Food Celebration Takes Over The Third Street Promenade

Flickr/Mr Chris JohnsonMalaysian Street Food: Chicken Satay​ Gooey grilled cheese sandwiches filled with braised short rib. Homemade fig and mascarpone ice cream sandwiched between warm oatmeal cookies. Chunks of fresh lobster meat bursting out of a toasted roll. Three reasons L.A. street fai ... More >>

Croissant Fight: Bite Bar vs. Anisette

Butter is one of the great inventions in our planet's history -- below alcohol and irrigation, but above soap, candles, and gunpowder. It's also below milking and animal husbandry, but for obvious reasons. The French are the most public advocates of the stuff, and also do some of the best work with ... More >>

What Recession? Re-Opening Of Santa Monica Place Sees Big Crowds

Macerich​"Huge crowds" flocked to the renovated Santa Monica Place mall Friday, the mall's owner stated. The Frank Gehry designed structure, which was at one point slated for destruction, was closed down for two years and turned into a three-level, open-air, 524,000 square-foot mall with Bloom ... More >>

Treat Her Right: Mother's Day Dining Options

Flickr user Bakerella​ Mother's Day in Los Angeles always brings the gift of good May weather, and the perennial foolproof option of a Sunday farmers' market visit followed by a home cooked meal. But here are a few other suggestions on how to treat a deserving lady right, since chances are th ... More >>

Chef Family Recipes: Make Your Own Easter Ham! The La Cachette Recipe

As Easter is less than a week away, Squid Ink feels compelled to forewarn you: Embark on ham-speak with Jean Francois Meteigner, executive chef-owner of La Cachette Bistro in Santa Monica, with caution. The French chef will tell you what a good ham is, and what it is not. And don't even think about ... More >>

Drivers Stop Your Engines: L.A. Marathon Street Closures Detailed

lamarathon.com​You know what's great about the Los Angeles Marathon? Nothing if you're trying to drive to Hollywood from the Westside to get your Thai food on at the same time streets are tied up like Quagmire on a sex bender. It can make L.A.'s one relatively traffic-free day -- Sunday -- fee ... More >>

Santa Monica's Wine Expo: A Post-Tequila, Political Photo Documentary

J. GarbeeKitty Want a Chardonnay?​Santa Monica's Wine Expo has, in addition to wine, a collection of over 70 100% blue Weber agave tequilas. What they also have is a lot of peculiar signage. Is there any connection? A distinct possibility. The wine shop has been screwing around with semantics ... More >>

WHEEL ART

West of La Brea, East of the Moon: Where the Hell Is West L.A.?

MapQuestAn L.A. Times squib about a stolen-car chase caught our attention Saturday, but for all the wrong reasons. The L.A. Now blog focused on snarled traffic that resulted in a 16-block shutdown around the LAPD's bomb-squad's search of the vehicle, though both events seem to be part of L.A.'s ever ... More >>

GO LA: Lebowski, Tom Arnold and Other Big Events

What to do in L.A., May 8-14

Best Steak: Cut

Best Way to Stay Ungentrified

A local's guide to walking SaMo

Glow '08: Blinded by the Light

Santa Monica's take on Paris' White Nights festival -- music and art all night on the pier

Tasty Comments on Bacon-Wrapped Dogs

And more from the Weekly's audience

Will the Next President Try to Out-green California?

A solar White House

Old and new Sever and Dame on Santa Monica and Hobart

When buildings come down in Hollywood it does a couple of things. It exposes older pieces that may have been well hidden before hand, and it usually frees up a couple of blank walls that make up a nice big canvas some enterprising painters. On Hobart and Santa Monica there's currently not only two ... More >>

Tarmac Rage

Getting an earful from millionaires’ jets at Santa Monica Airport

Getty Up or Bagg It

Tequila At Sunrise

Where to drown your 6 a.m. holiday blues

HOOPLA

A Shy Lady, croquet and Illegal Art

Fair Pay

Inside the battle for a living wage in Santa Monica

Splendor in the Grass

. . . and on the sand and in the canyons. The lost art of picnicking

I Was a Hired Gun for the Hotel Barons . . .

Where Money Didn’t Talk

In Santa Monica at least, the good guys won

Farewell Art

High rents forcing artists out of Santa Monica

Interview with Sheila Kuehl

Spare Parking, Anyone?

Santa Monica could be forced to provide free beach parking