Last Chance Thordis Adalsteinsdottir, You Feel Like An Angel, through December 15, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Bergamot Station, 310.453.7535. Alias Santa Claus, a family holiday play, through December 20, Saturdays and Sundays, 12:30/3pm, $10.50-$12.50, Santa Monica […]

Rage Against the Machine Tribute: The Battle of Los Angeles December 14, 9 p.m., $8-10 14 Below, 1348 14th Street, 310.451.5040 Missed Rage Against the Machine’s stint as the reunion band at the 2007 Coachella […]

When word got out that Juno was the most talked about film at Sundance, it was easy to be skeptical about it. A blogger/stripper/screenwriter Diablo Cody, a movie about a pregnant teen, the “snappy” dialogue […]

The City Council commended Ed Edelman for his two years of service as the City’s Special Representative for Homeless Initiatives (more commonly referred to as “the homelessness czar”) at its meeting Tuesday, December 11, as […]

Manhunt Wednesday, December 5 at 1:00 a.m. – Ozone and Longfellow Streets – Officers on patrol noticed a man with a flashlight crouching between two parked cars. When he saw the police, he jumped on […]

Tenants, landlords, and housing providers gathered on December 6 to learn about the rights of disabled renters at the second annual workshop on “Disability Issues In Rental Housing,” presented by the Santa Monica City Attorney’s […]

Reverend Donald Shelby, senior pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Santa Monica for 23 years, had a vision.  It was to somehow lend a hand to low-income seniors and homeless families. That vision […]

Local high school student Josh Miller of Resilient Youth Foundation (RYF) was recently honored as a finalist in the Young Wonders category for CNN Heroes.  In addition to earning a featured segment on Anderson Cooper […]

For many years, promoters of liquefied natural gas have billed their pet projects as a reliable new potential source of energy for California. So far, they’ve been stymied in all their efforts to build receiving […]

It has begun. It doesn’t have the sexual tang of gay marriage, so we’re not noticing as we should. But the Republican strategy of shifting the dialogue off of the thing that matters most and […]