The City of Santa Monica will be making eight blocks of pedestrian and streetscape improvements along 2nd and 4th streets between Wilshire Boulevard and Colorado Avenue. Approval for the design of the project was given […]

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter spoke about the Iraq war and the threat of war with Iran before a crowd of over 100 on Wednesday evening, February 21, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of […]

Having a world-renowned think tank in one’s hometown can have its uses.  RAND Corporation has been studying homelessness for 20 years, having published its first report on the subject in 1988, as noted by Iao […]

Four of the five adult suspects arrested by the Santa Monica Police Department February 7 and 8 in connection with the murders of Eddie Lopez and Miguel Martin and other Santa Monica shootings are out […]

Host Ellen DeGeneres gives a script to director Martin Scorsese during the Academy Awards telecast. photo courtesy of the Motion Picture Academy

I have known Jimmy Carter for more than thirty years. I first met him in the spring of 1976 when, as a relatively unknown candidate for president, he sent me a handwritten letter asking for […]

After going undefeated at home for the first time in 32 years, what can the UCLA men’s basketball team do for an encore?          Plenty.          For one thing, there are the season’s most important […]

It’s over now, but the boys basketball season at Crossroads School will be remembered fondly. Not only did the team easily surpass the previous year’s victory total, it enjoyed some playoff success. But the boys […]

The boys and girls soccer teams from Santa Monica High have been eliminated from the CIF playoffs after enjoying successful seasons. The boys, playing in Division 4, won two playoff matches before losing to Coachella […]

Palisades High was eliminated from the LA City boys’ basketball playoffs in the second round by Poly, 60-58.          Poly then lost to Westchester, setting up a championship game Friday night, March 2 in the […]