The boys’ basketball program at St. Monica is in pretty good shape. Coach Tony Depa’s team qualified for the CIF playoffs last season and appears to be as good now. As for winning the Camino […]

Ever since James Hecht became an assistant basketball coach at St. Monica in 1991 he’s enjoyed the profession. He became head coach at Santa Monica High 14 years ago, and in most years he’s turned […]

Rick Neuheisel has become the UCLA football coach and he says “it’s a dream come true.” Now it’s up to him to prevent the dream from turning into a nightmare. Quite simply, the 46-year-old former […]

In his first 17 games as a head basketball coach at the community college level, Jesse Teplitzky established himself in two ways. By guiding the Santa Monica College men to a 12-5 record, he has […]

During this past holiday season I took a few moments to reflect upon the numerous eateries that I had visited and reported on during 2007, and realized that it is easy to take for granted […]

Somehow my daughter and I found ourselves watching some unmemorable teen show. We’d never seen it before, and in fact, I’ve proudly given up most television for my 10-year-old because, well, it’s just all so […]

Paul McCartney, world-class slacker? “I have a knack of looking busy, without doing anything at all,” chortled the former Beatle as he steered his car through a driving rain near his rural home in Sussex, […]

The world, as we know, is full of unpleasantness, from the bozo on the freeway tailgating so close you’d swear his car was attempting to mate with yours, to the evil swine at the credit […]

January 4 Upground, Gabriel Gonzalez, Casa de Calacas @ Temple Bar January 5 Willie Waldman, Gravy, Sound Mind, Building a Better Spaceship, Loprobi, Norton Wisdom @ Malibu Inn Juke Joint Gang @ The Talking Stick […]

It was fairly early by nightclub standards on a Friday night in late summer when Pockets prepared to take the stage of the Scene, a Glendale dive bar that doubles as a haunt for upcoming […]