"There's a common misconception that conservation is anti-development," says Catherine Azimi, Communications Manager for the Santa Monica Conservancy. Azimi and Executive Director Kaitlin Drisko are seated around a small desk in the iconic Shotgun House, the Conservancy's headquarters.
Read MoreBefore he was a baker, Jyan Isaac was passionate about music. He was a jazz drummer. He draws clear parallels between baking and playing. “There is so much creativity with jazz because it’s all improvised,” he says while shaping dough at his now-famous Jyan Isaac Bread in Santa Monica.
Read MorePerhaps it was the quality of the light, the palpable sense of freedom and possibility or simply an abundance of affordable raw spaces, that first drew significant 20th-century artists like Ray Ray and Charles Eames, Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis, Ed Ruscha, and John Baldessari to Santa Monica and the surrounding area.
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