Elizabeth Jefferson was cut from the Santa Monica College womens’ basketball team on her first try.But if anyone is searching for an example of sheer determination, the guard from University High will do.A couple of […]

When the Santa Monica College men defeated Citrus College Saturday night, 81-75, it was probably the team’s final game of the basketball season.SMC finished fourth in the Western State Conference Southern Division, not good enough […]

The Santa Monica High girls’ basketball team has been eliminated from the CIF playoffs in a controversial fashion.Samohi lost its first round game Saturday to Long Beach Poly, 44-29. After holding a 15-14 halftime lead […]

How do you get to the Walt Disney Concert Hall? The Santa Monica High School Symphony Orchestra knows. On Sunday, February 18, the orchestra played a full program of challenging music in the nearly sold […]

When I was a teenager in the 1980s, a scant few of my friends were “into Monty Python.” They were like a secret club – singing the lumberjack song and talking about dead parrots. To […]

Julian Barnes is three days away from the end of a lengthy US book tour. Winding down from an exhausting cross-country trip, he is more than ready to go back home to London. “The wheels […]

Actress Gloria Stuart and artist Don Bachardy will appear in a special program in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium at the Santa Monica Public Library on Saturday, February 25 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. […]

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, led by Artistic Director Judith Jamison, returns for its sixth Music Center engagement, tonight, February 22 through Sunday, February 22 – 26, 2006 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. One of […]

ARTHUR & GEORGEJulian BarnesKnopf: January 2006Heather HoffmanMirror book criticIf Sherlock Holmes is a master of careful observation and deduction, then his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is in many ways his polar opposite. While Holmes […]

Eight Below **1/2Sasha StoneMirror film criticWhat seemed like a straight-to-video Disney tween movie, Eight Below proved to be a big draw at the weekend’s box office, coming in solidly in the first place. Was it […]