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Cousins Jad Larawan, left, and Pathy Page play chess on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica last summer. A proposal would allow visitors to drink alcoholic beverages outside, turning the ...

Santa Monica City Council members said Tuesday they support a plan to overhaul the physical design of the Third Street Promenade and allow more nightlife and entertainment. The shopping district began ...

Santa Monica is considering a proposal to allow public drinking on the Third Street Promenade. The plan aims to create an "entertainment zone" where visitors can consume alcohol openly from 8 a.m. to ...

Santa Monica’s Entertainment Zone, which allows for outdoor drinking of alcohol along part of the city’s Third Street Promenade, opens Friday with a soft launch. Adults of legal drinking age will be ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (CNS) -- A Santa Monica Third Street Promenade property owner is suing the city, alleging two topiaries sculpted as dinosaurs are home to rodents that roam near where people are ...

Many businesses at Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade have shut down over the past year, and one business owner believes the city’s growing homeless problem is one big reason. Photos taken by the ...

Santa Monica is shaking things up to bring more life and more people back to the Third Street Promenade with the approval of a proposal that will let visitors sip alcoholic drinks as they stroll ...