In March 2004, Dick Cheney asserted that Dick Clarke “wasn’t in the loop” regarding the Bush Administration’s counterterrorism efforts before 9/11. “It was as though he clearly missed a lot of what was going on,” […]

Once again, TreePeople’s “Gift of Life” Tree Dedication program, gives holiday shoppers an opportunity to give presents that will last for generations and benefit the environment, and they don’t require wrapping or trips to the […]

Santa Monica College interior design student Sarah Barnard won “Best in Show” in the national “Trash to Treasure” contest for her petite chair made from discarded auto parts and scrap metal. The award was part […]

The Santa Monica Seafood Company has donated $10,000 to the American Red Cross for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Moved by the continuing needs of the Gulf Coast area residents, many of whom lost everything, the […]

Santa Monica Council member Richard Bloom has been re-elected to the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission, an L.A.-based state organization that monitors efforts to restore the long-term health of the bay and its watersheds. “I’m […]

Last Wednesday, Santa Monica’s Planning Commission approved the location of affordable housing units at 1514 Seventh Street, which is more than the mandated quarter mile from a Craig Jones’ market-rate apartment project site at 507 […]

The new, expanded Virginia Avenue Park in Santa Monica, which reopened early this month, was designed by Santa Monica-based architects Koning Eizenberg. in association with Spurlock-Poirier Landscape Architects. On track to receive a Silver LEED […]

On December 8, the American Institute of Architects’ Board of Directors voted to award Santa Monica’s Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners the 2006 AIA Architecture Firm Award. The firm designed the new Santa Monica […]

When I see thisIt makes me thinkOf red bloodNot purple ink.

WASHINGTON – Never ask a guy who’s in a bubble if he’s in a bubble. He can’t answer. ’Cause he’s in a bubble. But the NBC anchor Brian Williams gamely gave it a shot, showing […]