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Volume 8 Issue 198
Santa Monica Daily Press UPGRADES MATTER SEE PAGE 6
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THE HERE COMES THE HEAT ISSUE
Brokers address multiple vacancies BY MELODY HANATANI Daily Press Staff Writer
DOWNTOWN As vacancies continue popping up along commercial districts in Santa Monica, city officials are looking for ways to help landlords and tenants weather the financial storm. City Hall on Tuesday gathered a crowd of commercial brokers, landlords and representatives of various Business Improvement Districts for a roundtable discussion about leasing strategies and how tenants and property owners can work out a situation that would allow the former to remain. “We have been hearing from all parts of the city … that we have a lot of vacancies SEE VACANCIES PAGE 8
Pier concert series returns for 25th year
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EXTRA, EXTRA! The owner of the Santa Monica Observer, a weekly newspaper, is the subject of a civil lawsuit filed by the City Attorney's Office, which claims the owner engaged in false advertising and was operating a business without the proper license.
Local newspaper hit with false advertising claims
BY NATALIE JARVEY BY MELODY HANATANI
Special to the Daily Press
Daily Press Staff Writer
SM PIER Get your dancing shoes on because the Santa Monica Pier’s Twilight Dance Series is back for its 25th year. A summer tradition, concerts begin July 2 and run every Thursday night from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. through September. This summer’s series presents a variety of eclectic sounds from around the world, including music icon Joan Baez and African pop giants Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited. Punk rock pioneer Patti Smith SEE SERIES PAGE 9
CITY HALL Newspapers might hold themselves out as disseminators of the truth but one local publication is in hot water for allegedly engaging in false advertising. The City Attorney’s Office on Tuesday announced it filed an unlawful business practices lawsuit against David Ganezer, the publisher of the Santa Monica Observer, accusing him of making deceitful statements through the newspaper and Web site, including that it is authorized to post legal notices and that his other businesses
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can offer legal services. The Observer is not an adjudicated publication and Ganezer was disbarred from practicing law in California in 2001. Ganezer did not respond to a call seeking comment. His corporations include the Santa Monica Media Company LLC, Ivory Towers LDA LLC and the SM Outlook, LLC. In a complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on June 8, Deputy City Attorney Gary Rhoades stated the Observer claims in its print edition that it is a newspaper of general circulation in Santa Monica and Los Angeles County, which is
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required to receive authority to publish legal notices, citing a court case. But Rhoades alleges that the adjudication in the referenced court case was not granted to Ganezer but instead for a corporation of a newspaper that no longer exists. The June 15-21 edition of the Observer has pages and pages of DBAs and other legal notices, including for trustee sales. Rhoades said the lawsuit will not cover the issue of the DBAs and whether those that have been published are legally binding since the newspaper is allegedly not SEE PAPER PAGE 10
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