Two pitchers from Santa Monica, Karli Rumburg and Madeline Kaplan, were instrumental in the Westside Pride winning the National Softball Association SoCal state championship on June 8.  A 12-and under girls fast-pitch softball travel team, […]

Andi Murez of Team Santa Monica, a senior at Venice High, has earned a trip to the 2008 U.S. Swimming Olympic Trials in Omaha.  She accomplished the feat in the Janet Evans Invitational meet at […]

It isn’t often that an incoming high school coach inherits a championship team. But that apparently is going to happen at Crossroads. The entire coaching staff that guided the Roadrunners to the first CIF girls […]

Remembering Bobby Kennedy: Forty Years After His Death. Jim Hubbard and Venice Arts present a striking collection of iconic black and white photos of the slain leader, killed during his campaign for President in 1968. […]

Jonathan Moscot, who pitched and played third base for Western League champion Palisades High this season, has made the all-city furst team. Also honored was Palisades’ senior catcher Garrett Champion, who was named to the […]

MALIBU The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will close one lane of Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) at the following times and locations nightly from Sunday, June 15 through Friday, June 20: · 9 p.m. to […]

Paul Hortobagyi, general manager of Le Merigot Hotel and Spa, was installed as Chairman of the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce, and the coming year’s new board of directors along with him, at the Chamber’s […]

One of Shakespeare’s most popular and accessible plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is certainly an ideal choice for The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, the woodsy amphitheatre nestled into a comfortable niche right off Topanga Canyon […]

ARIES You must learn to give up the ghost. Forcing things will only create tension that no one needs at all this week. Just lay back, be cool and let the chips fall where they […]

After losing to the Boston Celtics in their first four meetings this season — including twice in the NBA Finals — the Lakers broke through Tuesday night, June 10. Their 87-81 victory wasn’t a masterpiece, […]