When it comes to predicting the Oscars one can go one of two ways: the wishful thinking way, which has you choosing what you would like to most see win as opposed to what will […]

CELLStephen KingScribner: January 2006Heather HoffmanMirror book criticStephen King is looking forward to the end of the world. In 1978, he published The Stand, an epic tale in which a genetically engineered virus nicknamed “Captain Trips” […]

This was an insane amountOf money to have paidBy the well-known defenseContractor Mitchell Wade. I’m sure looking back nowWade probably has foundHe should have been spreadingMuch more of the cash around.

WASHINGTON – It’s enough to make you nostalgic for those gnarly union stevedores in On the Waterfront, the ones who hung up rats on hooks and took away Marlon Brando’s chance to be a contend-ah.Maybe […]

Otis Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times from 1960 to 1980, died February 27 of a degenerative illness called Lewy body disease. He was 78. Chandler was the last dominant figure in a newspaper […]

Compiling lists – of things to do, places to visit, books to read, etc. – is pleasing, particularly when one is young – since there is the possibility of completion. The older one becomes, the […]

If you talk to Maher Arar long enough, even on the telephone, you’ll get the disturbing sense that you are speaking with someone whose life has been shattered like a pane of glass.”Sometimes I have […]

Walt Whitman heard America singing. His famous poem describes various American workers — a carpenter, a mechanic, a shoemaker — creating a kind of song of labor in the land of the free. But if […]

To the editor:The number one movie at the box office last weekend was Eight Below, a film about a group of dogs abandoned on chains to starve or freeze to death, whichever comes first. Unfortunately, […]

We agree with the parent of a Santa Monica High school student who suggested at a recent school board meeting that the obscene message that appeared in several places on the Samohi campus a couple […]