Westside LA November 2026 Roundup: Palisades Reopenings, Santa Monica’s Ice Rink and the Boat Parade
Published November 2, 2026 · News as of November 2, 2026
On the Westside this month, Pacific Palisades keeps rebuilding, one reopened storefront at a time. Santa Monica gets its holiday rink back, and the Marina del Rey boat parade is set for mid-December. Here is what's new across the Palisades, Santa Monica, Venice, Culver City, Brentwood, Westwood and the neighborhoods in between.
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New and reopening
Spacca Tutto, Palisades Village. Nancy Silverton's Italian-American steakhouse opened at Palisades Village in mid-October, one of the bigger openings since the center reopened. Restaurant site →
Cafe Vida, Pacific Palisades. The neighborhood cafe is getting ready to reopen at 548 Palisades Drive this fall. Cafe site →
More on the way in the Palisades. Carla Cafe has signed a lease for a walk-up cafe at Palisades Village, with spring 2027 as the target.
Burger She Wrote, Brentwood. The burger spot opened its third location in October at 11686 San Vicente Blvd. Location page →
Coming soon. Bar Fortuna, a wine bar on Main Street in Santa Monica, and Heisei, a donburi spot at 1028 Washington Blvd in Culver City, are both in the works.
What's changing
A recovery district for the Palisades. A Los Angeles City Council committee is expected to take up a proposal for a Palisades disaster recovery district, which would keep growth in local property-tax revenue in the area to help pay for rebuilding without raising taxes.
Photo: Northwalker, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Culver City on the ballot. Culver City voters have three local measures on November 3: Measure YV, which would let 16-year-olds vote in city and school board elections; Measure AA, a school parcel tax; and Measure T, a hotel tax increase. Five candidates are running for City Council. We'll add the results here once the count is in. City election page →
Photo: OrdinaryScarlett, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The subway is getting closer. The D Line extension's first section opened May 8. The Century City and Westwood/UCLA sections are still under construction, with no opening dates announced yet. Metro project page →
On the calendar
- Nov. 7, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Culver City e-waste collection. For Culver City residents and businesses, with ID. Event details →
Photo: Jengod, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Nov. 7, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.Family music concert, Palisades Branch Library. Free. Event details →
Photo: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Opens Nov. 21Felipe Baeza, Hammer Museum, Westwood. A new exhibit running into April. Exhibit page →
Painting: Joseph Wright of Derby, J. Paul Getty Museum, public domain Nov. 24 to Mar. 14Joseph Wright of Derby, Getty Center. Exhibit page →
Photo: Nbudrovich, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Through Nov. 30The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Getty Villa. The last weeks of the exhibit. Exhibit page →
Photo: unknown photographer, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Dec. 15 to Mar. 14Paul R. Williams, Getty Center. A show on the Los Angeles architect. Exhibit page →
Holiday happenings
- Nov. 5 to Jan. 18
Frost on Fifth, downtown Santa Monica. The outdoor ice rink at 1324 Fifth Street. $22, skates included. Rink info →
Photo: DocFreeman24, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons DecemberMarina Lights, Burton Chace Park. A free holiday light display that ran all of December last year. The 2026 dates hadn't been posted as of November 2. Event page →
Dec. 12, 4 to 8 p.m.Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade. Festivities at Burton Chace Park, a light show at 5:45 and the parade from 6 to 8 p.m. You can watch from almost anywhere around the main channel. Parade details →
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The market: October numbers and live stats
Fewer homes sold than last October, while the typical sale price came in higher than a year ago.
- Homes on the market: 2,091 for sale or in escrow, with 17% of them in escrow.
- Homes sold in October: 259, down 22% from 333 in October 2025.
- Median sold price in October: $1,715,000, up 5% from $1,630,000 in October 2025.
October figures cover residential homes of all types (houses, condos and townhomes) in the Westside, from the MLS feed that powers this site, including all MLSs in the data share, as of November 2, 2026. October sales are homes that closed between October 1 and 31 and were posted to the MLS by November 2; each comparison is with the same month a year earlier. Homes on the market is a count as of November 2. A few late-reported October sales may still be added.
Live stats. The cards below update on their own from the same MLS feed, so they may differ from the October numbers above. Each links to a full market report for that city.
Santa Monica
Homes for sale and closed sales (no rentals) from the MLS — CSMAR and its data-share MLSs. Updated Nov 3, 2026.
Pacific Palisades
Homes for sale and closed sales (no rentals) from the MLS — CSMAR and its data-share MLSs. Updated Nov 3, 2026.
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