The beach adjacent to the Santa Monica Pier has again been named one of California’s most polluted, landing in second place on Heal the Bay’s annual “Beach Bummer” list, part of the ...

Though it has traditionally been rather touristy due to its scenic, coastal landscape and iconic sights like the Santa Monica Pier, the restaurant scene has experienced a major upgrade in recent ...

And just about the biggest illuminated thing around is the Pacific Wheel at Pacific Park, located at Santa Monica Pier. Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning ...

While shooting the 1973 movie “The Sting,” Robert Redford and Paul Newman would toss a football around on the Santa Monica Pier ... and sukuma wiki (sautéed collard greens), Moju includes ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A beloved symbol of the Los Angeles area ...

Excerpted from "Santa Monica Pier: America’s Last Great Pleasure Pier" by James Harris (Angel City Press, 2024) For more than two decades, James Harris has been the executive director of the ...

When we meet on a video call for this interview, Santa Monica Pier’s executive director and historian James Harris is in his office, a former apartment in the historic merry-go-round building ...

When we meet on a video call for this interview, Santa Monica Pier’s executive director and historian James Harris is in his office, a former apartment in the historic merry-go-round building that ...

Four people have been charged in connection with a brawl last month near Santa Monica Pier, which authorities now say started when a vendor began sexually battering several women. The Santa Monica ...