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THURSDAY
08.17.17 Volume 16 Issue 238
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What’s Up Westside
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WHAT’S UP WESTSIDE ..................PAGE 2 TRAVEL AND TOURISM ................PAGE 4 CRIME WATCH ....................................PAGE 8 MYSTERY REVEALED ......................PAGE 9 COMICS & STUFF ..........................PAGE 10
Santa Monica Daily Press
Help Clear the Shelters this Weekend
OUT AND ABOUT IN SANTA MONICA
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Culture Watch By Sarah A. Spitz
Why I Went Downtown
Thursday, August 17
WHEN I TRAVEL, I LOVE RIDING
Journaling @ the Library Journaling offers a tremendous benefit for the mind, body, and
on public transportation—buses, trains, trams and ferries— because in Europe, the UK and Scandinavia, these services are so
SEE CALENDAR PAGE 2
SEE CULTURE PAGE 3
Noteworthy
Play Time
By Charles Andrews
By Cynthia Citron
Let Me In, It’s Free!!
Good Cop/ Bad Cop Which Is Which?
WHAT A HASSLE
What a reward. Live music. Ain’t nuthin’ like it. It can lift you up and out and take you away. The transcendent Bob Marley sang, one good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. It can be addicting, yes, but cheaper than drugs or booze SEE MUSIC PAGE 8
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SHELTER: On Saturday Santa Monica Animal Shelter will host the annual Clear the Shelter campaign.
MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor
On Saturday, Aug. 19, the Santa Monica Animal Shelter is encouraging locals ready to bring an animal into their family to choose a shelter pet as part of the annual Clear The Shelter campaign. The campaign is organized by NBC4 Southern California and Telemundo 52. It includes discounted adoptions, a spotlight on pet issues, advice from experts and additional
By Merv Hecht
Milo and Olive-Pizza in Santa Monica SOME SAY THAT WHEN ELON
Musk drops people on Mars, they will find a Starbucks coffee house on one corner and an Italian pizza restaurant on the other. At least that’s at least how Santa Monica has developed. There are at least 50 places to buy pizza in Santa Monica. So it’s SEE FOOD PAGE 5
KEITH HUFF’S PLAY, “A STEADY
Rain,” is an absorbing variation in the “good cop/bad cop” genre. Two cops, best friends since childhood, are partners in the Chicago Police Department. (In SEE PLAY PAGE 10
Film Review By Kathryn Whitney Boole
SEE SHELTERS PAGE 7
MARJORIE PRIME Not Rated 98 Minutes Released August 18 MARJORIE PRIME IS A STORY
about ghosts from a different dimension. You could classify it as a sci fi tale in genre, though it doesn’t feel like one, as it is quite emotionally intimate. It’s a psychological study of three intertwining lives SEE MOVIE PAGE 6
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