Sydney Pollack is a very busy man and one of Hollywood’s most admired filmmakers, as he’s responsible for some of the best films of the last four decades. He’s produced over 40 films, directed 22 […]

Thank goodness for clear shopping bags. They allow you to see to the very bottom of a day’s worth of market produce, from the protruding leafy greens on top to the very roots down below. […]

In a bold move for network news, CBS has announced that it will expand CBSNews.com to a “24-hour, multi-platform digital news network, bypassing cable television in favor of the nation’s fastest-growing distribution system – broadband,” […]

The teenage authors of Venice’s 826LA’s first book, Rhythm of the Chain: Young Writers Explore Teamwork, will read from the book and sign copies at 7 p.m. at Equator Books on Saturday, July 16 in […]

Santa Monica High School Theater Arts Department’s producing partner, the Santa Monica Civic Light Opera (SMCLO), has chosen a classic American musical, Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady, as its summer production. The big, splashy […]

Samuel Beckett once wrote, “I cannot go on. I’ll go on.” Those two simple sentences convey the plight Emperor penguins endure every mating season in the captivating new documentary, The March of the Penguins. “The […]

Paris was in a state of high agitation in the early months of the French revolution. In the spring of 1789, rather than dissolving, the Estates-General  transformed itself into a constituent National Assembly. In July, […]

A Washington pundit bemoaned And was feeling quite bereft with The thought that “hokum and pablum” Are perhaps all we’ll be left with. To that rather bleak prediction I add this late-breaking kernel: Hokum got […]

Tony Blair was as eloquent as ever when he faced the press at the G-8 summit meeting Friday, but what was most impressive was what he didn’t say. After uttering three sentences of gratitude to […]

There is no doubt Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger realizes his political honeymoon is long over, that he has lost much of the popular support he enjoyed through his first 18 months in office. But he’s shown […]