Douglas Aircraft may no longer be building DC3’s in Santa Monica but at least one remarkable resource from that era remains – Busy Bee Hardware. Opened in 1922, Busy Bee offers state-of-the-art products combined with […]
Forty years ago, what this country really needed was a good $2000 car. America was in turmoil. An endless foreign war made our president an outcast. Oil wasn’t so cheap anymore. Volkswagen, Toyota and Datsun […]
The Westside Urban Forum honored two projects designed by Santa Monica architect Michael W. Folonis, at its annual awards celebration this summer. The 7th Street Project, a mixed-use development planned for the west side of […]
I heard that the California Supreme Court says it is OK for people of the same sex to get married. I have an employee who has just informed me that she intends to marry her […]
Ed Begley, Jr. Speaking in Santa Monica Ed Begley, Jr., actor and environmental activist, will be the guest speaker at the Unitarian Church of Santa Monica on August 10 at the 10 a.m. Sunday services. […]
The most important thing to know about Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s sudden late-July announcement that he wants to pay state workers just a fraction of their salaries until there’s a new state budget is that it’s […]
By a Santa Monica City Council vote of 4 to 1 at last nights’ Council meeting, a City process has begun that hopefully will lead to the establishment of an advisory Santa Monica Urban Forestry […]
Anyone who’s spent any time in New York knows about Ray’s Original Pizza. Or Original Ray’s Pizza. Or Ray’s Pizza. Or Ray’s. There are dozens of pizzerias all bearing some version of the name, almost […]
Dear Mr. Cohn: While I respect and encourage a citizen’s right to publicly call city officials (elected, appointed or hired) to task, I must respond to W. Firshchein’s erroneous comments regarding the City of Santa […]
As my mother said to me, after being divorced for 30 years from my father, and learning he was now, 30 years later, dating another woman: “That does it!” After last night’s City Council meeting, […]
