Spring is on its way at the Santa Monica Farmers Markets, but farmer’s tables are still full of tasty cool weather crops.Sprouting broccoli is a cool weather crop popping up all over the Santa Monica […]

Social networking sites are powerful tools for communication but they only work as well as they do because users have a mostly healthy balance of protocol. If that user-generated social order did not exist, no […]

The female nude is nothing new in art-in fact, some might say that it is art’s most frequently painted subject. For veteran painter John Asaro, whose current show at Bergamot Station, Bella Donna, is a […]

Watching legendary actor Kirk Douglas spill his guts in his solo stage show, Before I Forget, is like watching a Spartan warrior strip off his armor and prepare for a spot of tea. The 92-year-old […]

Being a parent is both a source of joy and terror. The joys are fairly obvious but why terror? Because, as every parent knows, from the day children are born you worry, worry, worry, and, […]

Santa Monica is many things to many people but “farm” is not one of them. We are not alone. Less than two percent of Americans earn farm income. Why, then, are media accounts of our […]

SuperBowl-A-Thon XIII was held last month at the AMF Bay Shore Lanes in Santa Monica to raise money for the Westside Shelter & Hunger Coalition and on March 12 its winners were recognized.Coalition Chairman John […]

—Bright sun means outdoor fun. Whether it’s tossing the ball around in the backyard or swinging on the monkey bars at the park, kids especially spend a lot of hours outside. In fact, according to […]

—A fun way to get kids into the swim of things when it comes to protecting the ocean is to enroll them in a club focused on watery environments. For example, the Ocean Guardian Kids […]

Santa Monica Red Cross Youth and UNICEF team up for “Project TAPThe United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and youth volunteers from the American Red Cross of Santa Monica are working together again this year to […]