Hot weather means it’s pepper season at the Farmers’ Markets! The hot summer days are filling farmers’ stands with a beautiful array of peppers and chilies in all shapes, colors and sizes. Bell peppers have […]

Joe’s Restaurant on Abbot Kinney Boulevard will celebrate 17 years of serving some of the finest French-Californian cuisine available to Westside diners on September 17. Those familiar with this Venice gem know that chef and […]

Last year when Mark Wahlberg was nominated for his first Oscar for The Departed, I immediately felt like congratulating Vincent Chase.  HBO’s Entourage follows the ups and downs of the daily life of a Hollywood […]

September 9 SMC Music Department Open House The new Madison Music & Performing Arts Campus of Santa Monica College is open and here is a chance for the public to see (and hear) it. The […]

September 7 Art After White People: Time, Trees & Celluloid, William Pope.L, opening reception 7-9pm, SM Museum of Art, Bergamot Station, 310.586.6488. First Fridays on Abbot Kinney Blvd., stores open until 10pm, Abbot Kinney Blvd., […]

Blithe Spirit, by Noel Coward, 8pm Fridays/4pm and 8pm Saturdays/7:30pm Sundays, through September 29, $20-$25, Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, 310.455.3723. Dracula, adaptation of the Bram Stoker classic, through September […]

Last Chance Cut, and The Slave Ship, two exhibitions of paintings by David Settino Scott, through September 12, closing night party September 8, 6:30-9:30pm, Frank Pictures Gallery, Bergamot Station, 310.828.0211. Defining Modernity: European Drawings 1800-1900, […]

John Doe Friday, September 7, 8 p.m., $20 Malibu Inn 22969 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, 310.456.6060 A singer, songwriter, musician and actor, John Doe is best known as a founding member of legendary LA band […]

It’s not easy finding a good old-fashioned entertaining movie, so when one finally does come along it is manna from heaven. James Mangold’s 3:10 to Yuma is that film. It works on every level that […]

James D. Lynch, who became the President/CEO of the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce on November 1 of last year, was removed from that position effective immediately last Friday, August 31. Callers to the Chamber […]