5:15-6:15PM Docent tours at the Guest House

*please note that the Back on the Beach Cafe is closed Monday evenings

          6:30PM Reading

Urban Worrier: Making Politics Personal is a collection of Frank Gruber's "What I Say" columns from the election of 2000 to that of 2004. The book intertwines several narrative threads, dealing with local politics, local issues, and local life (from the comic to the tragic), and the world outside Santa Monica.  The book turns current events into recent history, and reminds readers that inside the brain of any alert person living in a city is a lot more than what he or she reads on the op-ed pages of big newspapers or watches on TV news.  "All politics is local", said Tip O'Neill, and Gruber shows why.

Frank Gruber, a lawyer by profession, moved to Santa Monica in the '80s and became involved in Santa Monica politics in the '90s.  He ultimately served four years on the Planning Commission, from 1995 to 1999.  In 2000 he started to write a weekly column, called "What I Say," for the Santa Monica Lookout News, a pioneering local news website that had been created two years earlier after the city's century-old newspaper was closed down.   Frank's aim in writing the column has been to treat local life and politics in Santa Monica with the same kind of attention typically applied in American journalism only to national affairs.  He's now been writing the column for almost nine years.

Tickets: Free but seating is limited and reservations are required. If you would like to attend, please reserve online. Please plan to arrive by 6:15pm to retain your reservation. Late seating is not guaranteed. To adjust or cancel your reservation for this event, email beachhouse@smgov.net. We appreciate your keeping in touch!

Parking and Driving directions: From the Pacific Coast Highway north of California Incline, turn at the Beach House Way traffic light into convenient parking ($3/hr, $6/day, disabled placards and Santa Monica senior beach parking passes accepted).

Other events:

Winter/Spring Beach=Culture events (November-May) generally take place on the second Monday of the month; fee-based workshops take place on the second Saturday of the month and we will take reservations for those separately. To view & make reservations for future free Beach=Culture events, check  http://www.eventbrite.com/org/199463539.

Save the Date! Saturday November 14th from 10am-4:30pm learn to make a small hardbound blank book with instructor Angharad Jones! Our first Beach=Culture workshop is limited to 15 attendees and will cost $25, including all materials. Reservations will be available shortly.

For more information about events at the Beach House, visit http://beachhouse.smgov.net/plan-your-day/events-and-happenings.aspx