April 21 California State Parks Cleanup, volunteers will help with cleanup at state parks throughout California, locally at Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve and Malibu Lagoon State Park, call 1.888.98.PARKS to volunteer. Kidspace Butterfly Festival, an […]

Beyond Baroque 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, 310.822.3006, beyondbaroque.org, unless otherwise indicated cover is $7/$5 students and seniors/members free Monday Night Fiction, 8pm, free Tuesday Night Creative Non-Fiction, 8pm, free Wednesday Night Poetry, 8pm, free Thursdays, […]

April 20 The Boycott, one-woman show about global warming, with Kathryn Blume, 7:30pm, $25, Edgemar Center for the Arts, 2437 Main Street, 310.392.7327 x2. Also April 21 and special benefit performance April 22. Fools Fest, […]

Alice and the Wonderful Tea Party, a family version of the classic Lewis Carroll story, Saturdays and Sundays through June 17, 12:30pm and 3pm, $10.50 kids, $12.50 adults, Santa Monica Playhouse Main Stage, 1211 4th […]

Last Chance Crystal Palace, a film by artist Mathias Poledna, installation on view through April 22, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., WW, 310.443.7020. A Digital Spring, student photo exhibit, through April 20, SMC Emeritus College, […]

Dan Zanes and Friends (for kids), April 21, 11am/2pm Former Del Fuegos frontman and roots rocker Dan Zanes pretty much reinvented himself when he released the acclaimed album, Rocket Ship Beach. While aimed at kids, […]

First Private Bank & Trust, a private banking and wealth management firm with offices in Santa Monica and other Southern California locations, this week announced a strategic relationship under which Wilshire Funds Management, a business […]

The City of Santa Monica will be holding a meeting on greening part of a parking lot on Barnard Way north of Ocean Park Boulevard. The Beach Greening Project will have a multitude of benefits […]

Transportation Monday, April 9 at 7:45 p.m. –1626 Wilshire Boulevard – Officers responded to W. I. Simonson Mercedes-Benz regarding an individual who refused to leave the showroom. It seems the man had been looking at […]

What a difference half a year makes! Last October I attended a dinner at the Malibu seaside villa of Dick and Cindy Troop (who I had never met) for an evening’s discussion about global warming. […]