For some reason, it has become tradition to “watch the ball drop” on New Year’s Eve. But does anyone stop to wonder — is that all there is? Because, seriously, if that’s all there is, […]

Lifeguard Tower 22 South of the Santa Monica Pier – Perfect unseasonably warm weather and 2-3 foot waves with nice shape greeted surfers from eight southern and central California high schools as the Santa Monica […]

Well, you could join Gary Deckman from the “Biggest Loser,” Dean Karnazes from “The Ultramarathon Man,” and Curt Sandoval, ABC’s Channel 7 sports anchor triathlete, who are scheduled to kick-start 2006 on Sunday, January 1, […]

Thomas L. Friedman is in love with the Internet and broadband connectivity. He is infatuated with the notion that a schoolchild can enjoy the world’s biggest library at the click of a mouse. Therefore, it […]

Now that he’s 70 years old, Woody Allen doesn’t want to act in his films anymore, he has said, which has in turn relieved him of his obligation to write comedies. Believing that his public […]

The DC3 and its military version, the C-47, one of the world’s most useful and durable airplanes, was born and built at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, and in its heyday in the late 1930s […]

Dear Friends of SMCLC: It’s been a busy year for the newly formed Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City and we want to thank you for your support and your enthusiasm which has been […]

Still smarting at Main and Pacific To the editor: I was surprised (and pleased) to read your 12/14/05 editorial calling “The City’s new apartment complex now under construction at Main and Pacific is too large […]

WASHINGTON – As a Christmas present for our president, who’s been going through a rough time lately, I’m not writing the column this Christmas Eve. In keeping with a holiday tradition I began last year, […]

I’m not so much seeing the light at the end of the tunnel as hearing it. Amazing as it seems, 2005 is actually going out on some positive notes, and they are music to our […]