Starting with the good – “American Masters: No Direction Home” The elusive Bob Dylan is almost like a member of a different species than human – no one has ever truly understood him. Well, no […]

Part II Before arriving in Mexico I believed everything my parents, teachers, and friends had told me. I pictured a huge, impersonal city, diseased food and water, drunk and, reckless drivers and aggressive men. And […]

The Other Venice Film Festival (OVFF), a community event dedicated to screening full-length, short and animated films that embody the spirit, energy, and diversity of Venice, is now accepting film submissions of all lengths for […]

Stephan Klein, President of the Abbot Kinney District Association, which stages the annual Abbot Kinney Festival every September, said, “Venice is evolving, and yet it keeps its old charm, and the festival brings the community […]

Whether playwright David Auburn had any direct experience with mental illness is not evident in the screenplay for Proof, the adaptation of his Pulitzer/Tony award-winning play, which he co-adapted with Rebecca Miller. And any beauty […]

Grammy winner k.d. lang and Jackson Browne will headline “Songs Of Strength,” a benefit concert for hurricane relief at the Santa Monica First United Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon, September 25. In addition to lang […]

Bush pals getting Katrina contracts Doesn’t seem like the best thing It’s also much more offensive thanOral sex in the west wing.

It was the stuff of nightmares. Poisonous water moccasins were swimming in the filthy water of the flooded first floor, and snipers, rats, and even a 12-foot alligator were roaming the treacherous area just outside […]

ARLEN SPECTER: Welcome to Day three of the confirmation hearings of John Roberts. I’d like to take this opportunity to remind the nation of what a wonderful job I’m doing chairing this committee, and I’d […]

WASHINGTON – The president, as he fondly recalled the other day, used to get well lit in New Orleans. Not any more. On Thursday night, Bush wanted to appear casually in charge as he waged […]