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05.09.17 Volume 16 Issue 152
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Wireless network to improve in Santa Monica Kate Cagle Daily Press Staff Writer
Hundreds of tiny cellular antennas are in the pipeline for Santa Monica streets and could eventually mean fewer drop calls, faster streaming and better battery life for smart phones and tablets. So far, all major cell phone providers have approached the City to install so-called “small cells” throughout the City. The Public Works department is processing 136 applications, anticipating as many as 300 over the next two years and 600 over the next five years. The small cells convert slow radio waves to fast light waves. The City’s engineering techni-
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RECEPTION: New SEE WIRELESS PAGE 3
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MEXICAN: The seventh restaurant in the Rustic Canyon group will feature Mexican food.
MARINA ANDALON Daily Press Staff Writer
Cruise down Pacific Coast Highway and turn onto Entrada Drive, there you will find the newest member of the Rustic Canyon Family, otherwise known as Tallula’s. Josh Loeb, a Santa Monica native, is the founder and CEO of Rustic Canyon of the family of seven restaurants. The first restaurant and namesake of the
company, Rustic Canyon, was a vision he shared with his wife and partner Zoe Nathan. It opened in 2006 and eleven years later the couple have expanded the businesses to include Rustic Canyon, Huckleberry, Milo &Olive, Sweet Rose Creamery, Cassia, Esters Wine Shop & Bar, and now Tallula’s. Tallula’s is a Mexican restaurant offering locally sourced and organic ingredients in each dish. Tallula’s took over from the former Marix and has made the restaurant a colorful, vintage looking space, with a separate bar and patio seating for everyone to join in on an authentic Mexican meal. “Zoe and I grew up around this area and we always enjoyed going to Marix,” said Loeb. “We have always wanted to do something with this location and we loved the idea of doing Mexican food. It is something we don’t have in our group but it’s a food group we really love and enjoy.” The restaurant is set to open on Tuesday, SEE TALLULA’S PAGE 6
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California group Los Angeles, Paris await Olympic pledges $100 inspectors in million to battle 2024 race homelessness BY GRAHAM DUNBAR By Associated Press
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A San Francisco-based nonprofit has pledged to raise $100 million to reduce chronic homelessness in a city widely known for sidewalk tent encampments amid multi-million dollar homes. Tipping Point Community said the money will come from private donations and go toward affordable housing and homeless services provided by other nonprofit groups as well as government. The office of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee says this is the largest private commitment ever made in the city to combat homelessness.
Los Angeles and Paris, both already seen as winning options for the 2024 Games, await their Olympic inspectors this week. The cities will host three-day visits by an International Olympic Committee panel, whose chairman has no doubt about their hosting credentials. “I think today at least you can already say, either way, we will have fantastic Olympic Games,” IOC evaluation commission chairman Patrick Baumann told The Associated Press. IOC President Thomas Bach
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