Halla Gala, October 31, 7-11pm, $350-$25,000, Santa Monica Museum of Art Bergamot Station, 310.586.6488 x116 A huge Halloween fundraiser will raise fun as it raises money for the Santa Monica Museum of Art. In attendance […]

The web has opened up a new dimension to our lives. We have instant communication with people we haven’t seen in twenty or thirty years. We have news and information at the ready. We don’t […]

Home sales volume and prices fluctuate in somewhat predictable cycles in many areas. For example, an 8-10 year period has separated Westside market highs and lows in the 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, and the decade of […]

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is in better shape both financially and in terms of academic achievement than other school districts throughout California but it is still confronting some major challenges. District Superintendent Tim […]

Haunt No More! Halloween happenings are many in Santa Monica and for the past 14 years one top attraction was Adam Johnston’s creepy haunted house at 1349 Oak Street. Due to the objections of a […]

There’s an old saying in politics: “If you don’t vote, you don’t count.” In short, areas where voting turnout is low lose influence in government and the money and services that come with it. But […]

Pop quiz: What’s better for you, “Fruit Loops” or actual fruit? Take a minute. Remember that while fruit grows on trees in sunny climes in the open air, Fruit Loops come from a modern and […]

Dear Editor, The City of Santa Monica has committed 6.7 million dollars to the Fame Senior Housing Project which is of a questionable nature. It will be our Senior Gulag. This application of “Senior Group […]

Philadelphia may be the City of Brotherly Love, but there are some good eggs in Santa Monica too.  A few months back one of my long time neighbors was being evicted for non-payment of rent, […]