photo by Jessie Drezner

Playhouse Becomes A Battleground
You would expect a story with outlandish clashes between the sweetly innocent and the seemingly corrupt to come from the pages of Charles Dickens, or, perhaps more appropriately...

Economists And Community Clash Over Living Wage
A presentation at last Tuesday's packed City Council meeting by Dr. Robert Pollin, of the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, on his economic analysis of the City's living wage proposal for...

City Council Set To Approve RAND Project
The Santa Monica City Council signaled its intention to approve the RAND Corporation's proposed headquarters replacement project Tuesday night, but, at press time, Council members were still debating certain...

Battle of Britain Commemorated
The Battle of Britain was the first battle in history to be fought entirely by air, and the one that saved Britain from the German onslaught in early rounds of Word War II. 
   In honor of the battle's 60th anniversary...

Foundation Books Dream Bill For Fund-Raiser at SM Civic
Melissa Etheridge, Kenny Loggins, Graham Nash, Jeff Bridges, Christopher Cross, Taylor Dayne and Dennis Miller will perform at the Dream Foundation's first annual benefit gala in Los Angeles. 
   Miller will host the...

It Takes A Sky-Crane To Clean Topanga Creek
As someone who has actually witnessed a car careening over the side of the cliff on Topanga Canyon Boulevard (and, miraculously, witnessed the driver, bruised and battered, climbing back up over the side) I've had the occasion to...

Santa Monicans Named To Board Of Cancer Institute Auxiliary
Sue Bender and Diane Davidow, both of Santa Monica, have been re-elected to the board of the John Wayne Cancer Institiute Auxiliary which raises money for the Santa Monica-based Institute. 
   New board members include...

New Educators Reception Is September 26
The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce Education/Lifelong Learning Committee will host the 2000 New Educators' Reception on Tuesday, September 26. 
   The reception will welcome over...

SMC PHOTOS IN FAIR EXHIBIT
Santa Monica College student photographers are well represented in a photo exhibit at the Los Angeles County Fair. Of the 421 images in the show, 51 -- or nearly one out of eight -- are by SMC students.
   "We are all immensely proud of...

Residents See Final Design Of Downtown Transit Mall
The City of Santa Monica presented the final design for its proposed Downtown Transit to the public on Monday, September 11. 
   The primary purpose of the project...

SMMUSD Reliance on City Funds Worries County
A letter to the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) Board of Education President Todd Hess from the Los Angeles County Office of Education's Superintendent Donald W. Ingerson approving the...

Volunteers Collect 30 Tons of Trash In Beach Clean-Up
This year's beach clean-up day attracted fewer volunteers than last year's event, but they collected more trash. 
   The 8500 volunteers who turned out for the sixteenth annual scouring of...

SM College Aids Disabled Students In Job Searches
A grant from the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities will enable Santa Monica College to design a program to find better jobs for its developmentally disabled graduates. Specifically, the college will develop a program this fall to place...

W.L.A. Library Has Scheduled Used Book Sale
The West Los Angeles Branch of Los Angeles Public Library, 11360 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Los Angeles has scheduled a...

Hotels Send Schools On "Shopping Spree"
At 7 a.m. this morning, September 20, Hotel Casa Del Mar and Shutters On The Beach Hotel (both owned by the Edward Thomas Companies) presented John Muir Elementary School and McKinley Elementary School with $1,500 gift certificates to...

SM Chamber Campaigns For Tax-Funded Wage Subsidies
In response to the flurry of proposals for a living wage, and reports on proposals for a living wage, the Issues and Political Action Committee of the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce has weighed in with its...

Chernobyl Victims' Artworks Are Shown
While on vacation in Greece, Dave Walker, a Santa Monica resident, was so moved by a group of Russian children that he has assembled an exhibit which tells their story in the Ocean Park Library. 
   The children, who suffer a variety of after-effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986, were...

Red Cross Makes Merit Award To Local Hero
On May 5, 1999, Jennifer E. Reif was shopping at a local supermarket when another shopper, Glenn Stimson, a retired Santa Monica firefighter, collapsed in the store. His breathing was intermittent and his pulse was...

Going the Distance
For the second annual international "Turning the Tides on MS" competition relay, seven teams swam the 38-mile stretch of open ocean from Catalina to...

Santa Monica Man Shot and Killed In Venice Drive-by
Clifton Lavell Smith, the nephew of former Santa Monica Mayor, Nathaniel Trives, was shot and killed while sitting in a parked car with his two children at the corner of...