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Daniel Morris 

Daniel Morris plays the violin at the Third Street PromenadeDowntown Santa Monica, Friday, October 23, 2015. Daniel is classically-trained violist/violinist yet he has ventured into many other genres, creatively covering + arranging hit pop song, including tunes by U2, Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Avicii, One Direction, and Carrie Underwood. He also writes his own songs, colored with his own unique style + sound: combining elements of pop + bluegrass into a style he calls pop-grass. Daniel Morris Music

 

 

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JOB FAIR

Santa Monica Police Officers speak to students during the Santa Monica College Job Fair on Thursday, October 22, 2015.

 

 

 

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L.A. Flyboard

A person flies above Santa Monica Bay on a L.A. Flyboard on Wednesday, October 21, 2015.

 

 

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Save the Pier The Play


SAVE THE PIER The Play - Images by Fabian Lewkowicz

Highlights from Save the Pier The Play at the end of the Santa Monica Pier on Sunday, October 18, 2015. In the early 1970’s, the Santa Monica City Council voted to build a 35-acre island in Santa Monica Bay, featuring a high-rise hotel, a convention center, restaurants and other amenities. The Santa Monica Pier would be torn down and a four-lane bridge would be built in its place to provide access.The play dramatizes the fight to stop the island plan and save the Santa Monica Pier.The play presented actors from Loyola Marymount University.

Posted on Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 10:12PM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

Falun Dafa


Falun Dafa - Images by Fabian Lewkowicz

Falun Dafa practitioners parade down the Santa Monica Pier on Saturday October 17, 2015.  Yesterday, more than 4500 Falun Dafa practitioners from 36 countries attended the US West Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference in Los Angeles. To raise awareness about the persecution, Falun Gong practitioners come to Palisades Park every weekend. They inform people about the persecution in China and help Chinese people to take a stance against the atrocities by renouncing their memberships in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. Reports of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and other political prisoners in China have raised increasing concern in the international community in recent years. According to the reports, political prisoners, mainly Falun Gong practitioners, are being executed "on demand" in order to provide organs to recipients. Falun Gong (also commonly known as “Falun Dafa”) is an ancient Chinese spiritual discipline in the Buddhist tradition. 


Posted on Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 05:18PM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

SCARY

A witch riding her broom was spotted flying above Pacific Park on Thursday, October 15, 2015.

 

 

Posted on Friday, October 16, 2015 at 03:51PM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

Haunted Santa Monica Ghost Tours.

Explore the paranormal side of Santa Monica with a guided walking tour of the most creepy and mysterious places on the pier and bluffs by Haunted Santa Monica Ghost Tours.

This spooky, fun, walking tour of Santa Monica takes you to the most haunted places along the bluffs as well as the pier.

Paranormal is their passion! The Haunted Santa Monica tour guides have conducted interviews with merchants and workers on the pier. In their pursuits they've uncovered lore and gone in search of spirits in the most haunted venues in Santa Monica.

With some faith and belief they have explored a reality beneath our senses and are happy to share with you their research, expertise and time to enhance your experience in Santa Monica. They do not make up stories, all stories are real on this tour. So if you want some chills, thrills, history, and fun then come join them on an otherworldly adventure. ‪#‎Scary‬

 

 

Posted on Friday, October 16, 2015 at 03:47PM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

Mobile Command Center


SMPD MOBILE COMMAND UNIT - Images by Fabian Lewkowicz

The Santa Monica Police Department unveiled its new, state-of-the-art Mobile Command Center On Thursday, October 15, 2015.  SMPD's mobile command center features a well thought out floor plan that includes a large conference space in the front as well as a communication workstation in the back The mobile command center brings together the latest in communications and interoperable technologies, mobile command interior features, rugged body construction, and composite materials. The high-tech Tactical Action and Communications Suite features a slide-out area that adds an additional 36 square feet. With two work stations on both sides, four Emergency Response Professionals have plenty of room to operate while allowing the Incident Commander an eagle's eye view of the overall situation. Each ergonomic work station features phone and radio communications, and is ready for a computer laptop as part of the vehicles CAT5e computer network. Wall mounted LCD incident command monitors provide video feeds to help monitor emergency situations in the toughest environments. The Command and Conference Planning Center features everything you need to stage emergency, on-site meeting. A SMARTboard is linked to a laptop computer for a quick and easy way to plan out strategy, review responsibilities and transmit decisions to the field. Some of the uses for the new Mobile Command Center will be for the annual Twillight Dance Concerts, the LA Marathon and GLOW.


 

Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 11:03AM by Registered CommenterFabian Lewkowicz | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail | PrintPrint