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MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014
Volume 13 Issue 121
Santa Monica Daily Press
SAMOHI TAKES TWO FROM VENICE SEE PAGE 3
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Downtown could grow; zoning ordinance delayed BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
CITY HALL Downtown is getting a little big for its borders. On Tuesday night, City Council will consider heading in the direction of expanding the boundaries that define the Downtown.
The area, as defined by the property and business improvement district, runs roughly from Ocean Avenue to Seventh Court and Wilshire Boulevard to the Interstate 10 Freeway. Council will consider approving $55,000 in spending to study the expansion of the district to include Lincoln Boulevard. New mixed-use developments along Lincoln
have increased pedestrian activity in the area. The studies will also look at the impacts of a focus along the Colorado Esplanade, a pedestrian friendly strip slated to open in 2017 that will connects the incoming Expo Light Rail station at Colorado Avenue and Fifth Street with, SEE COUNCIL PAGE 10
Samohi teacher on leave after student fight THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRESIDENTIAL POWER
Paul Alvarez Jr. editor@smdp.com President Barack Obama made an appearance Saturday afternoon on the Third Street Promenade during the L.A. Puppet Festival
SANTA MONICA A Santa Monica High School teacher has been placed on leave after cellphone videos showed a fight with a student. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Superintendent Sandra Lyon sent a letter to parents Friday notifying them about the classroom confrontation. In the letter, Lyon says the videos were “utterly alarming.” School officials said Mark Black, who’s also a wrestling coach, was put on leave pending an investigation. City News Service reports no one was injured in the fight. The student’s name has not been released.
Faces of Silicon Beach: Winston an expert in networking BY ERIK HUBERMAN
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Special to the Daily Press
Kevin Winston, founder, DigitalLA, the largest and most established tech, media and entertainment event and networking group in Los Angeles. Erik: What made you want to be an entre-
Kevin: Throughout college and graduate school I was always starting organizations or clubs. I’ve always had an entrepreneurial spirit. I was my high school newspaper editor … and I was on the student council at Yale. You get positive reinforcement doing
entrepreneurial things. So I always like starting things and seeing what happens, which is something that an entrepreneur has to do, just go with a risky idea or with something that’s not quite proven assurance, to see what happens. That’s what I did. Erik: Tell me about your company DigitalLA
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Kevin: I started DigitalLA when I was working at MySpace because there wasn’t a networking group in L.A. SEE Q&A PAGE 5 WINSTON
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