“When the same mistakes are repeated over and over again, it’s time to consider the possibility that they are not mistakes at all.”– Naomi Klein, The Shock DoctrineLittle has changed since Barack Obama assumed the […]
In the slew of voter propositions presented to California citizens earlier this week, one was missing — the “Contrition Proposition.” With all the fur flying, and what we know now that we didn’t know in […]
For the fifteenth year, the Los Angeles Film Festival is coming to town June 18-28. As always, the festival will be showing films from around the world, independent and student films, emerging directors, family films, […]
Yes, summer is almost upon us, and along with the glorious perfumes emanating from the abundance of natural blooms, there is to be found another form of olfactory enticement, that of plates of tantalizing delights, […]
By the time you read this, there will likely be an American Idol winner. And it will likely be Adam Lambert. Lambert has performed so much better than the others the show has felt over […]
It is just before dawn in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, and we are about to embark on a multi-year stroll through the simple life. The play is Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and the tour guide […]
Ron Howard’s Angels & Demons isn’t a film for adults. No thinking adult could ever take it seriously enough to be entertained on any more than a superficial level. Anyway, adults are kind of overrated, […]
Sideshow at the Pier, a free show of circus artists, vaudevillians, contortionists, aerialists, jugglers, acrobats and performance artists took place on Saturday, May 16, a special event celebrating the Santa Monica Pier Centennial. Performers included […]
May 19 was special Election Day in California and a few races were particularly close and exciting. Carmen “Nuch” Trutanich beat Jack Weiss in the Los Angeles City Attorney race. Trutanich will replace outgoing City […]
Light rail is scheduled to arrive in Santa Monica by 2015 and with it will come many challenges and opportunities particularly for Santa Monica’s Downtown and Civic Center area.On May 11 the community members gave […]
