Jose Gomez, 22, a Santa Monica College student, shows affection towards his newlywed wife, Natividad Lopez, 26, at SMC on Tuesday. They have been married for one in-a-half years.

The new Civic Center's parking structure on Fourth Street lights up in multi-color neon on Wednesday. The colored vertical strips serves as a key design element of the first green  parking garage in the USA. The strips are in total 7,000 square feet of custom-painted, prismasolar texture channel glass planks.

Clay Renwick, Vector Control Supervision from Los Angeles County West Vector Control District, vacuums up a swarm of Honey Bees on Sixth Street near Santa Monica Blvd. on Wednesday, April 18, 2007. What is a Vector? "Vector" means any animal capable of transmitting the causative agent of human disease or capable of producing human discomfort or injury, including, but not limited to, mosquitoes, flies, other insects, ticks, mites, and rats, but not including any domesticated animal.

(left to right) George Abe, Johnny Mori and Danny Yamamoto of 'Japanese Festival Sounds' perform on their Taiko drums during the Santa Monica Public Library (main branch) 1,000,000 Visitors Celebration on Saturday, April 14, 2007. The program focused on the uniqueness of the ancient musical art form, the cultural fusion of ancient and modern techniques, and the full impact of Taiko through sound and movement.

Enclosure

People check out the 'Smart Car' during the 'Earth Day on the Promenade' festival on Saturday, April 14, 2007. The Smart Car is manufactured by the Mercedes Group and is air-cooled, turbocharged and has a  three-cylinder, 698cc (0.7 L) rear-mounted engine. It and can reach speeds of 80 miles-per-hour  and gets 40 mpg with an average combined city-highway driving.