Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Sandra Fluke now has some Democratic competition in the race to fill the South Bay's seat in the state Senate. Ben Allen, a Santa Monica school board member, jumped into the race Monday, while Betsy Butler, a former state Assembly member, has told supporters she plans to run. Allen, who is from Santa Monica, said he enters the race with a strong Westside base, having been elected to the school board in 2008 and 2012. The new 28th Senate District starts in the Palos Verdes Peninsula and hugs the...
Santa Monica will become the first city in California to inspect concrete, steel and wood-frame buildings and require seismic retrofitting for those deemed vulnerable during a major earthquake. The city will spend more than $100,000 over the next year identifying potentially dangerous buildings, then property owners must show they are safe or fix them. City officials said they would determine over the next few months how much time the owners have to complete the retrofitting. The survey is...
Letter to the Editor regarding proposed "Safe Routes to School" changes to Michigan Avenue near Santa Monica High School: I have been involved with this project since then trying to see the traffic analysis and mitigation plan that they said they would do. Of course they were delayed in doing it. After being told repeatedly by the City Planner that I would be able to see it when it was completed, she then came back and apologized and told me it wouldn't be available until a week before it went...
Two chefs who worked at a now-closed Santa Monica sushi restaurant pleaded guilty Tuesday to serving meat from federally protected Sei whales. Kiyoshiro Yamamoto and Susumu Ueda, who worked at the now closed The Hump at Santa Monica Airport, have pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges of conspiracy and offering to, and selling, a marine mammal product for an unauthorized purpose. Typhoon Restaurant Inc., parent company of The Hump, and the two chefs were charged in 2010. The charges were...
A federal judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the City of Santa Monica, on grounds that the City filed it about half a century too late. The City had tried to argue it, and not the Federal Government, owned Cloverfield, the City's airport. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter said city officials said that no only had the City failed to meet any imaginable statue of limitations applicable to Airport ownership, but that the City had not sought relief inthe Court of Federal Claims, prior to...
The work of more than 40 local artists will be featured in a silent auction to benefit youth services for local youth who receive support and essential programming at the Pico Youth & Family Center in Santa Monica. PYFC will host its 5th Annual Art for Hearts Benefit on Saturday, February 15, 2014 from 7pm to 11pm at the Jennie Madsen Gallery located at: 1431 Ocean Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90401 ART FOR HEARTS will include a silent auction of uniquely-crafted hearts by established artists: Alex Kizu, Ernie Lucero, JC Hernandez Munoz and others....
Center Theatre Group welcomes the Latino Theater Company to the Kirk Douglas Theatre for a special reading of “Hope: Part II of A Mexican Trilogy” by Evelina Fernández on Satuurday, March 1 at 1 pm.. Developed with the Latino Theater Company and directed by José Luis Valenzuela, “Hope” will be performed as a part of DouglasPlus in the Douglas’ rehearsal space, Upstairs@KDT. “Hope: Part II of A Mexican Trilogy” is the second of three related plays produced by Latino Theater Company – “Faith: Part I” and “Charity: Part III” complete the trilo...
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition gold medal winner Cristina Ortiz will make her New West Symphony debut on the next 2013/2014 Masterpiece Series concert playing Momoprecoce by Heitor Villa-Lobos New West Symphony music director Marcelo Lehninger will lead three performances of the program that also includes Maurice Ravel's Suite from Ma Mère L'oye ("Mother Goose") and Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky in the Ravel orchestration. The first performance will take place on...
BASKETBALL FOR THE REST OF US. For Adults. If you are not that great at basketball but want to play... THIS IS THE CLASSS FOR YOU. Play with people at your level. Tuesdays 7:15 to 8:15 PM 12 weeks starting March 4; $79. At Santa Monica College gym. Questions: Joe joebock3@yahoo.com or Richard 310-474-6164 (daytime); Register: http://commed.smc.edu or 310-434-3400 (daytime) Free T-shirt for registration before February 24...
Assault on the Pier Santa Monica police say they arrested a man accused of hitting another man in the face at the Santa Monica Pier early Saturday morning. Lawmen report it happened on the 300 block of the Pier on February 8th shortly after three o'clock in the morning. Lawmen say the victim told them that he was walking on the Pier with his aunt when the suspect, Gonzalo Alberto Sanguin, who asked the victim where he was from, approached him. According to authorities, the victim replied with...
What If Wooden's Prized Assistant Had Stayed? John Wooden won 10 national championships as the UCLA basketball coach from 1964 to 1976, the greatest dynasty in the history of the sport. Since Wooden retired, UCLA has won only one more in 37 years. In an intriguing new book by Southern California author Steve Bisheff, In The Shadow Of A Legend, the case is made that the Bruins missed out on several more championships because Wooden's prized assistant coach, Jerry Norman left the program at age...
With love and lust filling the air this Valentine's weekend, what better way to celebrate than with a fresh and funny romantic comedy that I like to describe as "raunchy likeable vulgarity." Without a doubt the funniest film of the year, Kevin Hart and Regina Hall make you laugh till you cry, or pee your pants, while Michael Ealy just steals your heart. ABOUT LAST NIGHT melds the hysterical outrageous comedy stylings of Hart and Hall with the warmth and tenderness of Ealy and Joy Bryant, all...
This week, the City hosted a series of workshops to discuss the integration of the Expo Light Rail Transit and Big Blue Bus systems "The service area of Big Blue Bus (BBB) is changing in ways that promise to have significant impact on public transportation," said the Big Blue Bus Co. in a press release. "Further expansion of the Exposition Light Rail Line in 2016 will increase the number of stations served from four to eleven, and bring rail from the fringes of the BBB service area into its...
The Los Angeles Boat Show took place in Marina Del Rey and the Los Angles Convention Center February 6-9. Organizers were happy with the event as they say the boating industry in on the rebound and say they saw a 5 per cent increase in sales in 2013 and expect the growing trend to continue this year. They say there were about 13,000 visitors at the show altogether this year. About 2,000 visitors came to the Westside to check out the 40 sail- and powerboats at the in water boat exhibits in...
Maggie DiNome, MD, Director of the newly developed High-Risk Clinic at the Margie Petersen Breast Center at Saint John's Health Center, hosted a fundraiser with actress Kate Beckinsale and celebrity yoga instructor Mandy Ingber at the home of Saint John's Foundation Trustee Mary Flaherty. The yoga event, held on Feb. 13, successfully raised funds to support the creation of a new Yoga Program for patients undergoing breast cancer treatment and those at high-risk for developing the disease. (From...
Simone spins the wheel for art supply prizes during a sale at Blick Art Supplies, on Ocean Park Blvd and Lincoln Blvd. "As an artist, I like to help people with what I like to do," she said. "I meet some very cool people working here."...
