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Santa Monica Next sat down to talk with Rick Cole, who took the reins as Santa Monica’s city manager on June 29 after leaving his post at L.A. City Hall as deputy mayor in charge of budget and innovation. The Pasadena native and 30-year veteran of local...

Santa Monica Public Library at the Beach 2015, Santa Monica, California (Photo used with permission by Jeff Kaplan, Reference Services Librarian, Santa Monica Public Library) BOOKS ON THE BEACH About a year ago, I read a Fast Company blog post about...

By Associated Press, SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — The Latest on the death of Nancy Reagan (all times local): 5 p.m. About 1,500 people had visited Nancy Reagan’s casket at a public viewing and more than 1,000 were still waiting to see her, but the setting...

Learn more about the galaxy at the SMC Planetarium. Here’s a run down of Westside events for July 11 – July 17. Things To Do SUMMER DEEP SKY WONDERS; Fri., Jul. 11, 8 pm. John Drescher Planetarium, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, 310.434.3005, smc...

Since the 1960s everyone has been familiar with the idea of ecology. Nature, before humanity, as the ecologists argue, constituted a balanced and indeed a self-balancing system. James Lovelock in his various books with Gaia in the title argues that nature...