Tickets for the Artists for the Arts Foundation benefit concert featuring Venice, Jackson Browne and Gary Wright at Santa Monica High School’s Barnum Hall on Friday evening are still available! Venice and Friends AFTAF benefit featuring David Crosby in 2011 During the performance, the bands will be joined by student musicians who play and sing [...]

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Back in March when “Szechuan” closed down at 2905 Washington Blvd in Marina del Rey, I did some digging around to find out who the “Washington Group LLC” was that had applied for the change of ownership application with the ABC. I ended up speaking with Sal Aurora (Happy Endings in Hollywood, Black Market in [...]

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Want to take a trip to Baja, Mexico this Memorial Day weekend with some of your neighbors? Check out “GENIUS LOCI“, happening May 24th-27th. The weekend will include surfing and surf clinics, Yoga/ Workshops by Gigi Snyder, Jessica Eve and Zoe Soleil. Musical stylings from Massio, Phunky Brewster, Henry Pope and Loboman and VJ Theory [...]

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The 13th annual Marina del Rey Summer Concert series has released their schedule for 2013. Performers include Poncho Sanchez, Rose Royce, Taylor Dayne and Billy Ocean. July 11 – Classical Thursday: “A Night at the Opera” July 20 – “Pop” Saturday: Billy Ocean July 25 – Classical Thursday: Ruslan Biryukov, Cello August 3 – “Pop” [...]

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The free summer shuttle service between the Venice Pier, Marina del Rey and Playa del Ray will resume service on May 24th this year. The service is available on weekends, holidays and for special events (including the Abbot Kinney Festival) through September 29th. Click here to download the full map and shuttle schedule. The beach [...]

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