The Founders hi, it's us Est. 2026
The Founders

Blame these two

The Santa Monican is the fault of exactly two people. Here they are.

Kane and Spencer celebrating with a Juneshine, from the last page of Issue 01
Kane & Spencer, ink-stained and proud

Hi. We're Kane & Spencer.

We live here, we love it here, and somewhere between a coffee and a questionable idea we decided Santa Monica deserved a magazine you can actually hold.

So we're making one. On paper. In 2026. Against the advice of basically everyone with a spreadsheet.

No investors, no algorithm, no app to download. Just two locals and a printer. We're betting that a free, beautiful quarterly can do something a feed never will: get strangers in the same town reading the same thing, at the same café. If that sounds a little naive, you are going to love it.

with ink-stained hands, Kane & Spencer