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Larger-than-life Día de los Muertos Art Installations by artist Ricardo Soltero will be on display at the Santa Monica Pier and 3rd Street Promenade. Celebrate Día de los Muertos, the traditional Mexican cultural celebration of life and death, with huge art installations on Third Street Promenade and the Santa Monica Pier by Los Angeles-based artist [...]

Learn the history behind the iconic Santa Monica Pier sign. You’d be hard pressed to find anything more identified with the City of Santa Monica than the Santa Monica Pier Sign. It is to Santa Monica what the Golden Arches are to McDonald’s, the Empire State Building is to New York, the Eiffel Tower is […]