Cheng Du Restaurant in West L.A. is a little different than your average rice and noodle chop-house, inasmuch as they display a more health conscious approach to the preparation of many of their dishes, and […]

Jamie Papish was an accomplished accounting consultant, attending stressful meetings with clients in windowless rooms. His work paid the bills but he was unhappy. Living in Brooklyn and taking the subway to work in Manhattan, […]

Our world seems to be getting smaller.  With so much to entertain us on a second-by-second basis, we rarely have to sit quietly with our thoughts anymore.  There is noise everywhere.  The Internet is all […]

Watching a cartoon, it might not occur to you that everything that happens to those characters is written by a writer. John Derevlany’s credits include a stint as “Crackers, The Corporate Crime Fighting Chicken” on […]

Oh, poor Sanjaya Malakar. All he ever did was try out for American Idol, and look at what his life has morphed into. He’s a bona fide phenomenon known only for being a bit of […]

photo by Margaret Molloy

Buddy the Pug gets caught red handed stealing from the Easter bunny. photo by Gail Hodge

Bus fares on the Big Blue Bus were “adjusted” by the City Council Tuesday night, April 10, when it accepted a staff recommendation presented by Stephanie Negriff, Director of Transit Services for the Santa Monica […]

“Air Conditioned” Saturday, March 31 at 1:00 a.m. – 2800 block of Pico Boulevard – An off-duty police officer (not SMPD) heard a commotion in front of the “Air Conditioned” lounge, and so he went […]

Mercury Media and Advanced Results Marketing (ARM), two of the pioneers in direct response media, announced a merger on Wednesday, April 11, to create the nation’s largest independent direct response media agency with gross billings […]