Root vegetables are the heart and soul of seasonal winter cooking. Here in California we are lucky to have such a wide variety of year-round crops, but during the colder months when the last of […]

The striking writers have now gotten everyone’s attention by refusing to grant a waiver for the Hollywood Foreign Press’ annual hoopla-fest, the Golden Globe awards. Perhaps the general public thought it would be limited to […]

Warning: Review contains one “spoiler.” Not long ago, I saw a TV show that revealed some of the “secrets” of magic illusions, with a “masked magician” and his assistant demonstrating the way to saw a […]

Warning: “The Nerve of Erv!” exhibit of paintings by Erv Kaplan at the Deborah Page Gallery is not pornographic – at least not by what one hopes are enlightened 21st century standards – but one […]

It was in “dreary Birmingham, England,” when Dave Wakeling felt the pull of the warm rhythm of reggae and ska. “It was the ambiguity of it,” says Wakeling of his attraction to the music, “that […]

It seems that, with a few notable exceptions, the endings for this year’s best films have been dark as flint or else unsatisfying. Somehow it almost feels as though happy endings have become obsolete. Either […]

In this final installment of APB for 2007, we thought it might be instructive to let our readers know something about all of the things that Santa Monica police officers do that never make it […]

The kids at PS #1 celebrated the holidays the old-fashioned way – by making gifts for their friends. The school’s gift exchange involved all 185 students making one gift for one student. Names are picked […]

(NAPSI) Don’t let anyone tell you it’s not easy being green. When it comes to floor covering, making a “green” choice is easier than ever. Green refers to a substance or manufacturing method that uses […]

Three Santa Monica developments have been named California Construction Magazine’s “Best of California 2007.” Archstone Santa Monica (pictured above), designed by Howard Laks, AIA Architects, is a mixed-use building that opened earlier this year on […]