Memo to Bret Easton Ellis: if your daughter’s favorite doll comes alive, grows fangs, attacks you, and then scurries under the bed in front of multiple witnesses who claim they saw nothing, maybe it didn’t […]

Lately, there seems to be a fine line between documentary filmmaking and the monstrously disproportionate “reality” industry. “Reality” frees the filmmaker or star or producer from the confines of objectivity.  In “reality,” stories can be […]

The Santa Monica College Photography Gallery is currently showing a special benefit exhibit, “Kameras for Kids,” of photos taken by children from Sri Lanka and Benin, West Africa. The exhibit opened on October 29 and […]

A Malibu-based dance company headed by an adjunct Santa Monica College professor is making history, as it will be the first group of Americans in nearly two decades to perform at the annual UNESCO World […]

I hope some respondents to these latest polls Gave The White House some good news again By saying that they kinda liked the ideaThat Bush might be drinking booze again.

Southern California has been smitten by a virtual epidemic of museum mishaps of late. The downward spiral started about two years ago when Victorville’s Roy Rogers Museum quietly closed, took its artifacts off their earthquake-proof […]

Hans Christian Andersen understood bad rulers. “The Emperor’s New Suit” doesn’t end with everyone acclaiming the little boy for telling the truth. It ends with the emperor and his officials refusing to admit their mistake. […]

Scooter used to be Cheney’s Cheney. Now we’ve got Cheney’s Cheney’s Cheney. This is not an improvement. Once Scooter left, many people, including a lot of alarmed conservatives and moderate Republicans, were hoping that W. […]

The following list is, in my opinion, the Bush legacy. It is offered without footnotes, without elaboration or argument, but simply as a list. Perhaps by gathering together these twenty disparate (yet, I believe, related) […]

Now that we’ve integrated the threat of terrorism into the experience of commercial flying (I think some people like taking off their shoes…), it’s interesting to note that the flight attendants’ speech concerning seat belts […]