Damien Newton

Jason Islas, our Santa Monica Next editor, has put a lot of time into making tonight's Santa Monica candidate forum a winner. This is the second time this year we've hosted a debate that will feature a future mayor after our Long Beach forum last February. Join us either at the forum or online. And that's not even the highlight of the week (unless you actually live in Santa Monica). Tomorrow night, we are sponsoring a meet and greet with Seleta Reynolds with L.A. Walks, LACBC, and the Safe Routes to Schools National Partnership.

MEET THE MODERATORS FOR OUR UPCOMING SANTA MONICA CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE FORUM We are excited for our upcoming City Council Candidate Forum with the League of Women Voters of Santa Monica Education Fund! We are so excited, in fact, that we couldn’t wait to introduce you to the two people who will be moderating the forum. … Continued

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Councilmember José Huizar, Council District 14 and the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering invite you to a Public Briefing on the Sixth Street Viaduct Replacement Project.

Announcing New Urbanism Film Festival Second Edition November 6-9, 2014

A Social Media Week Los Angeles Panel

While it may be missing much of the fanfare of previous years in Los Angeles, Park(ing) Day is still one of the happiest days on the Livable Streets Calendar. Across the world, people will gather in car parking spaces, feed the meter and turn publicly subsidized personal property storage into a public mini-park.

A couple of events fighting displacement. Fun bike events. Metro Board Committee meetings. Ya know. The usual.

(If you want to skip the article and the editing and just listen to our half-hour conversation, click here. - DN) If you spend some time with the newly minted General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, you would think she was an LADOT lifer not a recent transplant from the San Francisco MTA.

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