Thomas Bezucha is obviously a likable person who has a lot of good things to say about humanity. In his new film, The Family Stone, he unfortunately tries to cram it all into a movie […]

Dr. Nancy Greenstein has been elected chair and Dr. Susan Aminoff vice chair of the Santa Monica Community College District Board of Trustees for 2006. Their one-year terms began Monday, December 5. Greenstein was elected […]

Santa Monica College Planetarium Director Jon Hodge, whose sky shows have attracted tens of thousands of adults and children over the past 26 years, has had an asteroid named after him. The tribute is timely, […]

On Saturday December 17, Santa Monica Airport, in conjunction with the National Aviation Hall of Fame, will throw a party to celebrate one of Santa Monica’s most enduring and venerable icons, the Douglas DC-3, and […]

David Wyles, who lived on the Santa Monica-Venice border, until he moved to Playa del Rey.   I first met Wyles when we were freshmen at Yale. A working screenwriter, he now has a second career […]

His lawyers hoped to get charges Which are still in place dismissed By venturing out on a limb And then attempting to insist That alleged “money-laundering” Should be tossed off all the decks Because they […]

Our secretary of state’s tortuous defense of supposedly nonexistent CIA torture chambers in Eastern Europe was an acid flashback to Clintonian parsing. Just as Bill Clinton pranced around questions about marijuana use at Oxford during […]

No doubt about it. The hardest people to buy for every Christmas are your relatives, friends and neighbors who earn $1 million or more a year. What do you get for people who already have […]

Sometimes reconstruction delayed is reconstruction denied. A few months after the invasion of Iraq, President Bush promised to rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure and economy. He – or, at any rate, his speechwriters – understood that reconstruction […]

Any minute now, pundits and content creators will begin to weigh in on the “best” and “worst” of this year. Those lists will be funny and fun to read, but they’ll have the somewhat limited […]