“Ten years ago I was in the alley behind this building crying.”  Those were the words of former street person Jacob Ramsey, who emceed the groundbreaking for Step Up on Second’s newest permanent housing location, […]

Los Angeles Veterans for Peace commemorated the fourth anniversary of the Iraq War by setting up the Arlington West Memorial on both Saturday & Sunday, March 17 and 18, with an overnight candlelight vigil beginning […]

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has launched a multilingual public education campaign called “Clean Hands,” designed to encourage LA residents and visitors to wash their hands as a means to avoid seasonal […]

Bees are mysteriously disappearing across the nation at an alarming rate and nobody seems to know why. In what is being called “colony collapse disorder,” disappearing bees are threatening the livelihoods of beekeepers as well […]

Downtown Santa Monica is something of a diner’s paradise, with virtually every style of cuisine available, from virtually every country in the known world. I like to think I have a pretty good knowledge of […]

The sad truth is that, no, most of us are no match for the average fifth grader. And for the above-average fifth grader?  Forget about it.  But before you discard your self-respect, let’s define what […]

He’ s tall but not fat He’s the cat in the hat It’s his 50th birthday Now how about that! Yes, it’s been 50 years since the gangly cat in the large stovepipe hat made […]

Aries You don’t know what to make of a recent development. No good deed goes unpunished so expect some fallout. Watch how you spend your latest windfall. It comes and goes and before you know […]

It isn’t easy finding an anticipated summer movie that isn’t a sequel. Unfortunately, the summer is made up almost entirely of them. No one wants to chance losing hundreds of millions of dollars, so what […]

(NAPSI)-More Americans are getting a prime opportunity to conduct more due diligence research – from getting a home inspection to neighborhood environmental screening – as a way to protect their health and wallets from poor […]