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SANTA MONICA, CA - MAY 19: LAUSD k-12 Arts Coordinator Dr. Steven McCarthy attends IFAW, Adopt the Arts and the Los Angeles Unified School District's Love Elephants Youth Art Exhibit and Awards Event at Bergamot Station on May 19, 2013 in Santa Monica, California.

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About Santa Monica

Santa Monica is a coastal city in western Los Angeles County, California, USA. It borders Santa Monica Bay (part of the Pacific Ocean) on the west, Pacific Palisades and Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles and Mar Vista on the east, and Venice on the south. Except for the Pacific Ocean to its west, it is a municipality completely surrounded by the City of Los Angeles. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 84,084, but an early 2006 estimate has the population at 103,255. Santa Monica is named for Saint Monica of Hippo because the area on which the city is now located was first visited by Spaniards on her feast day. In the skateboard and surfing communities Santa Monica's Ocean Park neighborhood and adjacent parts of Venice are sometimes called Dogtown.

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