March 2, 2026
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Coming Soon: First Show of Hockney Portraits:

will include self-portraits of the artist as well Since 1955, David Hockney has been engaged in painting portraits — self-portraits as well as portraits of family members and friends – to make a kind of […]

BOOKS IN THE MIRROR: Godwin: “I want to burn down”:

ATLANTA — “I want to be everyone who is great,” an unbearably young and earnest Gail Godwin gushes in a journal entry from 1961. “I want to create everything that has ever been created.”Now 68, […]

At THE MOVIES: When Brokeback Mountain Met America:

Recently, a student asked President Bush whether he’d seen Ang Lee’s masterpiece, Brokeback Mountain, adding that he thought the President would “love it.” Bush shook his head and said no, he hadn’t seen it, but […]

Government Of, By and For The Pharmaceutical Industry:

Hidden in the folds of the thickly pork-laden Department of Defense Appropriations bill that slid through Congress just before Christmas and was signed into law a day before New Year’s was a big slab of […]

To Mayor Holbrook and Honorable Council Members::

The Board of the Ocean Park Association offers the following thoughts for you to consider while discussing the draft alternatives to the LUCE revisions:1. Traffic seems to be the primary concern of residents when they […]

Open Letter To Dear Mayor Holbrook and Councilmembers:

In the January 2005 FOSP questionnaire, the #1 “dislike” residents expressed about living in Sunset Park was traffic (followed by jet noise and airport safety concerns). In summarizing their “vision” for the city, the most […]

Between Heaven and Earth…There’s Effluent:

Two million gallons of anything is imposing. Kool Aid, peanut butter, pasta… anything in that amount would be a big deal. It would have a kind of power by way of its size. It could […]

LETTERs to the Editor: School board clarifies

To the editor: On behalf of the Board of Education for the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District, we are writing to clarify some misinformation in a recent article regarding our policy on District Advisory […]

Hail and Farewell to the Chief:

Final proof, if any were needed, that we have entered a neo-Orwellian age came Sunday with the announcement that the NBC Television network has canceled President Jed Bartlet. When a television network can scrub a […]