Thursday, October 6 Yoga Workshop “Highlights from the Iyengar Intensive,” a 3-hr. workshop, 9 a.m. – noon, $30. Yoga Garden, 2236 26th Street, (310) 450-0133, www.yogagardenstudios.com. Conversations At Leon’s, A singles group combining discussion and […]

The Other Venice Film Festival’s 2005 Abbot Awards were presented at the Abbot Kinney Street Festival. Painter Ed Ruscha (pictured left) was on hand to receive his Abbot. Actress Alley Mills accepted the Abbot on […]

On Sunday, October 9, the Santa Monica Symphony will perform in concert at the Civic Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Musical Director Allen Robert Gross will conduct. On the program are Mendelssohn’s Overture to ‘Ruy Blas,’ […]

Perhaps if all films took five years to make they’d be as good as Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the eagerly anticipated full-length feature by the brilliant Nick Park and his collaborators. […]

We are poised on the threshold of a renaissance of the arts in Santa Monica, an explosion of local creativity in a community that has already contributed much to art and culture domestically and internationally. […]

Hurricane Katrina made Bush Take his eye off the ball The president’s ratings ever since Have dropped in a dramatic fall. There is no way that Mike Brown Could ever manage to seem a Good […]

Some years ago my brother in law, a lifetime Yankee fan, gave me a t-shirt that announced, “I was fired by George Steinbrenner.” It’s a humorous references to an earlier time when the New York […]

A close friend always describes situations in terms of the glass being half empty or half full. Sometimes I’ll point out that there may not even be a glass. But in America a lot of […]

Republicans abandon the people To the editor: In the wake of the disastrous effects of Katrina and Rita, Americans have a clearer understanding of the Republican agenda that systemically benefits the privileged at the expense […]

The increase in the number of people living in poverty in the last four years in the richest and most powerful nation on earth, the ballooning deficit, and the inability of the richest and most […]