In Raymond Chandler’s murder mysteries, he portrayed Santa Monica in the 1930s and early 1940s – Bay City, he called it in his stories and novels – as a corrupt, crime-ridden town, home to water […]

Santa Monica resident Paul Robb has been leading a double life.  A co-founder of local company HiFi Music + Sound Design, he spends his days composing music for commercials and other television projects.  When he […]

Charles Arnoldi: Wood, through March 30, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, 25255 PCH, Malibu, 310.506.7257. Artists Revealed, black and white photographs by Kathleen Buckalew, through April 19, SMC Photography Gallery, Drescher Hall, […]

Fafalo Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble Friday-Sunday March 21-23 Do something different for the Easter weekend and go see this comic play by Stephen Legawiec. A fantasy about an unlikely king, Fafalo makes use of puppets and […]

Last Chance Barbara Carrasco, Face It! through March 22, Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, 310.264.1760. Between the Lines, five artists, Charles Arnoldi, Larry Bell, Michael Braden, Alex Couwenberg, Peter Lodato, through March 22, William Turner […]

Messing with perfection is a dangerous thing. How do you make something that is already as good as it gets better? It’s simple – you don’t. What makes last weekend’s blockbuster, Horton Hears a Who!, […]

Delgado Brothers March 22, 9:30 p.m., $10 Harvelle’s, 1432 4th Street, 310.395.1676 Back in El Monte, the Delgados – Bob, Joe, and Steve -– were known for their jam sessions, which brought in the likes […]

It appears that Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios is truly taken seriously by New York. Nowhere was this more evident than at the Orthodox show, where Vogue Editor-at-Large André Leon Talley sat front row, […]

Homicide Investigation Sunday, March 16 at 6:10 p.m. – 1500 block of Centinela Avenue – Officers responded to an apartment complex and found the resident dead inside her apartment. It appeared that she died as […]

Some Santa Monica residents believe that there has been an increase in the number of large commercial jets from, into, or out of LAX that are flying over Santa Monica. Dan Greaney, who has been […]