Serve the ice cream and they will come. Throw in some incredible barbershop harmony and they will come in droves. And so they did. A record number of over 350 seniors of all ages showed […]

On the Beach Tuesday, September 4 at 2:30 a.m. – 1150 Beach parking lot – Officers on patrol ran the plates on a Lincoln Navigator that came back as being registered to an Arkansas Jaguar […]

The Santa Monica Landmarks Commission has voted to designate Palisades Park as a City Landmark and Landmark Parcel. The decision had the support of City staff and of the City’s Recreation and Parks Department. The […]

Two seniors at Santa Monica High have been awarded the first annual Santa Monica Firefighters Scholarship. The award was given to Adriana Padilla and Valentine Urena for community service, having at least a 2.0 grade […]

“We Should Never Forget.” Those were the September 11 words of Santa Monica Fire Department Captain Graham to the firefighters assembled in front of Station No. 1 on 7th Street just before 7 a.m. to […]

The School District’s Chief Financial Officer Steve Hodgson told the School Board on September 6 that they would need to approve the conceptual project list for Phase I of the District’s Facilities Master Plan on […]

President Bush’s recent attempt to draw an analogy between Vietnam and Iraq has prompted a huge response. Since the timing of this article makes me a late-comer to the discussion, I thought I would gather […]

A new report must be accurate if it comes from some place called the Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and their building is located in Germany. Whereas a new report from, say, the Fudd Institute […]

Open letter to the residents of Santa Monica and Malibu: Yesterday, like many thousands of parents in Santa Monica and Malibu, I was busy at my children’s schools, helping them settle in for their new […]