Diego Valdez, Santa Monica High’s hard-hitting 6-foot-3 first baseman, has decided to play baseball for El Camino College next season.          Valdez was strongly considering El Camino when West Los Angeles College restored its baseball […]

Last football season Brentwood relied on its passing game at the outset, ultimately developed a running game and qualified for the CIF playoffs. This season the blueprint is the same, except that the passing game […]

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ALICIA SERRANO MEDINA, a 52-year-old female Hispanic, left her residence in the 700 block of Marine Street, Santa Monica on July 2, 2007 and has not returned.  She is 5-foot-1, 150 pounds, brown hair, brown […]

Bldgs. 205, 208 and 209 on the VA property in West LA – originally built as mental hospital facilities – have been sitting empty for more than two decades while the homeless population of the […]

“This is England” is the coming of age, semi-autobiographical adolescent adventure of writer/director Shane Meadows. Set against a backdrop of the opening sequence establishing the landscape of people, places and events unfolding in 1983 – […]

ARIES More trouble this week but not so much that you won’t be able to handle it. If given the peace and quiet of solitude you will be astounded by all you are able to […]

Football is the marquee sport of Santa Monica High’s well-regarded athletic department. The team is usually well-stocked with talent. The program has a rich history. And crowds fill the seats on Friday nights at Corsair […]

August 25  Strategies for Mental Sharpness, 10am-noon, free, Purpose Inc., 300 Corporate Pointe #468, CC, 310.410.4551.  August 29  Yoga for Health and Healing with Leslie Kazadi, 10-11:30am, free, Center for Healthy Aging, 2125 Arizona Ave., […]

The recent Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Library Panel on August 16 touched on the interesting aspect of the intersection between farmers and chefs at the Wednesday Farmers’ Market. The panel consisted of Nicolas Peter, chef […]