When Social Studies teacher Daniel Braunfeld arrived on the Santa Monica High School campus on Friday, February 3, he saw the racially offensive graffiti.As he looked at the hateful words, he asked himself two questions: […]

The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce and Santa Monica Place are collaborating on the first annual Nonprofit Festival to showcase the work done and services offered by local non-profit organizations.It will be held on the […]

A Southland couple has pled no contest to charges that they ran a nationwide mail fraud operation in which they made false promises to victims around the country and used a Santa Monica mail box […]

The Washington Post reported on Monday that Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy was one of “three finalists to fill the Prince George’s County schools chief vacancy.” According to the Post story by […]

Vice President Dick Cheney “accidentally” shot long-time friend Harry Whittington while on a quail hunting trip today in Texas.“Harry was talking some shit about how CIA agents shouldn’t have their cover blown for political reasons, […]

Vice President Dick Cheney bitterly complains that national security leaks are endangering America.Unless, of course, he’s doing the leaking, tapping Scooter Libby to reveal national security information to punish a political critic.President Bush says he […]

I don’t know which is more disturbing, the Bush administration’s blatant disregard of the poor coupled with its obeisance to the wealthy, or the seemingly limitless indifference and gullibility of the public coupled with the […]

To the editor: I found Steve Stajich’s recent Bay City Beat more than a little disingenuous. The photo of the new condos on the corner of Main Street and Marine Street seems to have been […]

At this point we’ve had six years to grow accustomed to Bush budget chicanery. (Yes, six years: George W. Bush’s special mix of blatant dishonesty and gross irresponsibility was fully visible during the 2000 presidential […]

Maybe you have to be me to have been entertained and even exhilarated by last week’s appearance of Sly Stone at the Grammy Awards. I’ve heard the jokes (“Sly misunderstood the use of the word […]