COUNCIL REFUSES TO “MOVE TO AMEND”
Tweet At its January 24 meeting, the City Council 1. okayed relocation of the Windward School well, and an amendment to an agreement with Black and Veatch Construction,in the amount of $1,421,417, to provide project management and construction services for the well relocation project. 2. okayed Bid #3067 to Univar USA, Inc. in the amount of $381,375 for the purchase and delivery of Sulfuric Acid for use at the City’s Arcadia Water Treatment Plant, for a one-year term. 3. okayed... Read More
TRUST WOMEN WEEK IS UNDERWAY
Tweet National Nurses United is participating this week in the first-ever “Trust Women Week,” an online mass mobilization on behalf of women’s lives and rights. The nurses, MoveOn and 50 other organizations are taking part in the nationwide campaign. Messages from “virtual marchers,” as participants are known, are being packaged and delivered online directly to members of Congress, governors and state legislators to underscore that America must trust women... Read More
INDEPENDENT FILMS TAKE 60 OSCAR NOMINATIONS
Tweet Once upon a time, independent film companies were Hollywood anomalies. Today, they play a major role, as is demonstrated in the 84th Academy Award nominations, which were announced last week. Independents garnered 60 nominations in feature categories, according to the Independent Film and Television Alliance, whose member companies captured a total of 44 nominations. IFTA member companies are noted with their nominated films. HUGO (GK Films) leads the race with 11, followed... Read More
KINETIC ARTIST DAVE QUICK’S LEGENDARY WORKS ON DISPLAY HERE
Tweet Originally scheduled to close today, a “mini-retrospective” of works by Santa Monica artist/writer Dave Quick at the Bleicher/Golightly Gallery at 1431 Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica will run through February 1. The show, “All Systems Go,” is part of Pacific Standard Time (PST), a survey of Southern California art between post WWII and 1980. The Getty Foundation and Bank of America are sponsors of Pacific Standard Time, in which 60 institutions are participating. Among... Read More
PRESIDENT ORDERS FEDERAL INVESTIGATION OF WALL STREET
Tweet From MoveOn Did you watch the State of the Union tonight? President Obama did exactly what hundreds of thousands of us have been calling on him to do—he announced a federal investigation into Wall Street. Here’s what he said: “I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis.... Read More
RESIDENTS PLAN TO HOLD RALLY AT CITY HALL
Tweet Santa Monica Neighbors Unite! will rally at 5:30 Tuesday on the City Hall lawn in support of a Sustainability Bill of Rights and Move to Amend, both of which are on the City Council’s agenda and both of which, in their view, will work to end big corporations’ domination of “people, nature and our democracy.” Following the rally, the group will attend the City Council meeting in the Council Chambers on the second floor of City Hall, which generally reconvenes... Read More
SM CONSERVANCY’S ANNUAL MEETING IS SUNDAY
Tweet The Santa Monica Conservancy will hold its Annual Meeting and present its Preservation Awards on Sunday, January 29 from 3 to 5 PM at the John Byers-designed Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica. In addition to the Board of Directors election and Preservation Awards, the program will include an update on plans for the Preservation Resource Center. The church is located at 1260 18th St (corner of 18th St and Arizona). Additional information about John... Read More
LEGENDARY STUDIO, INCEVILLE, SHINES AGAIN
Tweet Today Thomas Harper Ince is remembered, if at all, for the mysterious circumstances of his death, which may or may not have involved media mogul William Randolph Hearst. But, as historian Eric Dugdale recounts in his Thursday, January 26, free lecture at the Santa Monica Bay Womanʼs Club, Ince was, in fact, a pioneering genius in the early film industry and major influence in the development of our Santa Monica Bay. Arriving in Venice, in 1910, Ince had already made... Read More
LISTEN TO GEORGE!
Tweet George Wolfberg, the very wise president of the Santa Monica Canyon Civic Asociation, continues to warn us to lock our cars, remove anything valuable, and set our alarms, and we continue to ignore him and burglars continue to steal our stuff. Last week, five cars were burgled. A burglar smashed a window and took a laptop computer, blood pressure kit and earphones from a car on Radcliffe A burglar entered a car on Hartzell and took a camera, bag and surgical tools. A burglar... Read More
Community Meeting on Closing of Parking Structure #6
Tweet City parking structure 6 at 1431 2nd Street will close at 12:01 a.m. on February 16, 2012 and be demolished in March. The City plans to rebuild and enlarge it, nearly doubling its capacity to over 700 spaces and incorporating “many aesthetic and environmental improvements,” according to a City press release. It’s scheduled to reopen in late 2013. The design/build contractor is Morley Construction. According to the press release, “Parking and noise will be a challenge... Read More
