Venice Family Clinic and the RAND Corporation will explore depression and recovery from disaster From 6 to 8 p.m. next Wednesday, October 19, at RAND in Santa Monica. The presentation will examine the importance of […]

Tonight: first game of the ALCS between Chicago White Sox and the California Angels of Anaheim (vote here if you like the name change). This is the time of year when a whole season of […]

Wandering through the twisting labyrinthine walk streets and bridges during Carnivale in Venice, Italy, John Berendt observes “…the height of decadence…. parties, dances, spectacles, games, and walking around Venice behind masks, incognito.” Berendt’s latest work, […]

In George Clooney’s marvelous new film, Good Night, and Good Luck, a voice from the past, Edward R. Murrow, shames us in our complacency. Like nuclear technology, television is a powerful tool that can either […]

Ability Arts will hold a mask-making fundraiser party to celebrate Disability Awareness Month. Following a run of successful disability awareness community performances last fall, Ability Arts will hold two mask-making workshops for families. Local assemblage […]

A $100,000 grant from the S. Mark Taper Foundation has enabled the Santa Monica-based environmental organization Heal the Bay to open an interactive and educational microscope lab at its Santa Monica Pier Aquarium. “During a […]

On Sunday, October 16, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicun will turn its focus from the plays of Shakespeare and Arthur Miller to the real life drama of the Iraqi war, to hold a “Bring The Boys […]

George Clooney has done and become so many different things since he first took his rightful place among the stars when he played the brooding, sexy doctor on NBC’s “ER.” He became, against the odds, […]

Santa Monica College recently announced that Martin Sosin has donated 18 original Sam Francis prints to the college. The prints are currently hanging in the campus Library. “The pieces are beautiful and they make the […]

At last year’s fundraiser for the Edgemar Center for the arts, Jason Alexander appeared in a reading of Brecht’s The Irresistible Rise of Arturo Ui. The year before, Steven Speilberg and Kate Capshaw presided at […]