Stop the presses! Within just a few days we’ve had a scandal involving a world-class presidential guru bumped off the front pages by a prime-time presidential announcement of a nominee to the Supreme Court. No […]

You hear it at least once a week: The plaintive moan of a fellow American befuddled by our nation’s odd sense of priorities. It comes out this way: “I can’t believe they tried to impeach […]

Saving Darfur To the editor: The leaders of the richest countries in the world recently just completed three days of discussion. A large part of their conversation centered on fighting poverty in the developing world. […]

Once again, the Santa Monica Library’s Citywide Reads Committee is soliciting nominations – for the book that will be the focus of the 2006 iteration of the program. And, once again, we are suggesting that […]

The new building on the 1300 block of Lincoln Boulevard at the corner of Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica is called Lincoln Center/West. A project of Beptal, Inc., it’s a mixed-use, 23,000 square- feet retail […]

Brookdale Living Communities, Inc., a national provider of senior living services, announced last week that some of its affiliates now own and operate Ocean House in Santa Monica. Located at 2107 Ocean Avenue, the “independent […]

Bob Riddle, Assistant Headmaster and Dean of Faculty at Crossroads School in Santa Monica, has been chosen by the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) to receive an NAIS/ Edward E. Ford Fellowship. Granted to […]

The Shakespeare Fellowship, which is dedicated to promoting Shakespearean scholarship in public education, has given Jamie Spence of Santa Monica an award for her essay entitled “Shakespeare and the Education of Women.” Spence studied Shakespeare […]

Well over 100 people gathered last Wednesday afternoon on the tarmac at Santa Monica airport for a memorial service for Captain Robert Maguire, Jr., who was dubbed the “Irish Moses” for flying 50,000 Jews out […]

The Santa Monica Planning Commission unanimously elected Commissioner Jay Johnson as its Chair and Gwynne Pugh as its Vice-Chair at its Meeting last Wednesday. A marketing executive, real estate agent and owner/manager of residential income […]