Tag Archives: Santa Monica

Pipe Bomb Explodes Outside Santa Monica Jewish Center

Cell phone photos from a few hours ago. There were cops and cones at every street and alley for three blocks surrounding the Santa Monica Synagogue at 1448 18th Street in Santa Monica. I knew it was bad when I saw even the Park Rangers were there helping. I guess they ran out of parking peeps.  

Santa Monica Considers the Impacts of Downtown Construction

Santa Monica is under attack — by cranes! Santa Monica has big plans for a facelift before the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century, but the city’s businesses, residents, and visitors will have to endure an even bigger headache over the next five years as such projects break ground and reach fruition.Continue reading “Santa Monica Considers the Impacts of Downtown Construction”

Santa Monica Achieves Landmark Sustainability Milestone – Successfully Cleans up MTBE Pollution, Puts High Tech Water Treatment Plant on-Line and is Reaching 70% Water Self-Sufficiency – Business Wire – SunHerald.com

Crazy stuff. Can’t believe some of it. The City of Santa Monica is celebrating the reopening of the Charnock water wells and the reconstruction of the state-of-the-art Santa Monica Water Treatment Plant and after a long battle to clean-up the MTBE pollution, hold the oil companies responsible, and secure a sustainable supply of locally producedContinue reading “Santa Monica Achieves Landmark Sustainability Milestone – Successfully Cleans up MTBE Pollution, Puts High Tech Water Treatment Plant on-Line and is Reaching 70% Water Self-Sufficiency – Business Wire – SunHerald.com”

Apple-Google Squabble Spreads to LA

The Chiat/Day relationship with Steve Jobs and Apple is nothing short of legendary. That legend goes something like this: Chiat was hired by Apple to create the (also legendary) Ridley Scott-directed, $1 million, only-aired-once-cause-it’s-so-goddamn-special 1984 commercial that introduced the Macintosh line of computers during the Super Bowl. When Jobs was forced out of left Apple, he usedContinue reading “Apple-Google Squabble Spreads to LA”