On Friday, February 3, when Santa Monica High School students arrived on campus, they found racial epithets that specifically targeted African Americans, symbols of the gangs Santa Monica 13 and Santa Monica 17, and other […]

Noted soccer physician Dr. Bert Mandelbaum has won the United States Sports Academy with the 2006 Dr. Ernst Jokl Sports Medicine Award.Mandelbaum, who practices in Santa Monica, has worked at Pepperdine for 15 years and […]

As the race for the 41st Assembly District seat being vacated by Assembly member Fran Pavley becomes more focused, Americans for Democratic Action has scheduled a candidates forum to enable voters to meet the candidates […]

Today is Super Bowl Sunday, a holiday, so it seems, for men.Today I heard two radio ads that annoyed me. One ad, reminding men of the impending Valentine’s Day holiday, guilt-trips them for not having […]

Last Thursday, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s Board of Education restored the District Advisory Committee (DAC) policy language it had deleted at its January 5 meeting. The deletion had been criticized by a number […]

After touring the Santa Monica Urban Runoff Recycling Facility (SMURFF) last Wednesday, Benjamin Grumbles, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Assistant Administrator for Water, said: “This state-of-the-art facility sends a strong message to beach lovers […]

Santa Monica’s Transportation Management division outlined its draft goals for the revision of the circulation element of the City’s General Plan to the Planning Commission at its meeting last week.The circulation element sets out the […]

February 3, 2006 – In the early morning hours of Thursday, February 2, 2006, a Santa Monica Police undercover officer was shot in the line of duty in the Pico neighborhood. Suspects are in custody. […]

February 3, 2006 – In the early morning hours of Thursday, February 2, 2006, a Santa Monica Police undercover officer was shot in the line of duty in the Pico neighborhood. Suspects are in custody. […]

It’s not unusual for actors to become playwrights – Sam Shepard, Noel Coward, even Chekhov all began their theatre careers on stage, but playwrights hardly ever become actors. “I made my acting debut and farewell […]