The Santa Monica Symphony will make its second appearance of the season at a free concert on Sunday, December 11, under the baton of Music Director & Conductor Allen Robert Gross. The concert will begin […]

Elizabeth Costello, a talented and prolific writer, chooses to tell the story of a “slow man” protagonist: an amputee committed to disciplined inaction. Elizabeth is the title character of J.M. Coetzee’s previous work, Elizabeth Costello. […]

You really have to go all the way back to the ’70s to find a film as blatantly defiant and ultimately fatalistic as Syriana Films like The French Connection were playing to full houses then, […]

It’s a draw, not a pulloutThey’re sticking to that scriptTo avoid the appearanceOf having flopped or flipped.

Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of novelist F. Scot Fitzgerald, wrote, trained as a ballet dancer, painted, and went mad, some said, because she was literally insanely jealous of her husband’s accomplishments.Some of her artworks, most of […]

“What was good for our country,” a former president of General Motors once declared, “was good for General Motors, and vice versa.” GM, which has been losing billions, has announced that it will eliminate 30,000 […]

From the moment President Bush’s tax restructuring panel announced its proposals for simplifying the federal tax code, one thing was clear: If this passes, Californians will pay more. Fully $17 billion more in federal taxes […]

President George W. Bush has just entered his third term. That’s right. He is a three-term president. His first term was from 2001 to 2004, and it was dominated by 9/11, which Bush skillfully used […]

Let me start with the possibly too cute observation that the words “content” meaning “to appease the desires of” and “content” meaning “the topics or matter treated in a written work”… are spelled the same. […]

Trying to keep my finger on the pulse of what is happening on the culture front, periodically I check out the long range movie studio “sneaks” to see what is in the pipeline. My most […]