Try to find a busy farmer sometime to sit a spell and share a family recipe with you and you will often get some juicy information on the run that leaves you hungering for more […]

The 2006 Independent Spirit Award nominations, the first major nominations of the awards season, were announced late last week. The winners will be announced at ceremonies in a tent on Santa Monica Beach on Sunday, […]

Just when you thought it was safe to plunk your kids down in front of the TV, there is new evidence that proves that being plopped down in front of the television to watch the […]

The Santa Monica College Theatre Arts Department will feature Emmy-winning actor Gregg Marx in master class called “The Art & Business of Voiceovers” on Thursday, December 8. Free and open to the public, it is […]

At the Antelope Valley High School Band Tournament on December 3, probably the last band tournament of my musical career, the Santa Monica High School Viking Band dominated, winning Field Show Sweepstakes, Music Sweepstakes, Visual […]

“I can make Georgia howl!” boasts General William Tecumseh Sherman at the beginning of his devastating March to the Sea. From Atlanta, Sherman marches 62,000 Union soldiers in a column sixty miles wide. The troops […]

Has there ever a film as good as Peter Jackson’s King Kong? It appears to us now the way the 1933 version must have appeared to audiences — as something utterly breathtaking and new. Where […]

It wasn’t a Freudian slip. Nor was it a potshot, wisecrack or malicious remark. It was a typo. I know that because I made it. Spell Check didn’t catch it, because if it’s a word, […]

These stories should have pseudonymsSo that anyone who’s IraqiWill immediately know thatWhat’s written just might be wacky.”Bob Woodward” has been takenAnd would be ideal for this job(Maybe they could keep WoodwardBut make the first name […]

In the Christmas spirit, the time has come for the reality-based community to reach out to the White House. The Bush warriors are so deluded, they’re even faking their fakery. This week, the president presented […]