Saturday, July 9 Art Film: “The Mystery of Picasso,” 6:00 p.m., Mt. Olive Church, 1343 Ocean Park Blvd., (310) 452-1116. The Mt. Olive Film Series runs year-round on the 2nd and 4th. Saturday of each […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Without intending to, writer and publisher James Atlas has made a career of poking into other people’s lives. He loves literature and wrote one novel, but biography is his métier. It’s no […]

Summer is a time for beach parties, family picnics, vacations and other activities most Americans have the luxury of participating in. But there are those who slip through the cracks of normal society and have […]

Venice is a kaleidoscope of a place. It shifts under the eye, and it contains everything, and what you see depends entirely on where you’re standing at any given moment. Its residents range from the […]

Over the years, many motion pictures have been shot, all or in part, in Santa Monica – ranging from one of Charlie Chaplin’s first one-reelers to such recent releases as The Story of Us and […]

What could be causing the recent box office slide?  Attendance is down 10 percent since last year and even the blockbusters War of the Worlds and Batman Begins couldn’t bring it back to where it […]

It’s sure hard for Arnold To now stand and be tall When he seems like a primeCandidate for recall.

As I drove up into the store’s parking lot and parked my car, I noticed a child’s stroller directly in front of the store’s entrance. Hanging off the stroller were plastic grocery bags stuffed full […]

On the morning after George W. Bush spoke to the nation from Fort Bragg, N.C., Americans started marching off to Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds. Both halves of this double feature invoked 9/11, perfectly […]

Golly gee! Howard Dean has been making intemperate remarks again. Why the other day he even suggested that the Republicans don’t fight fair. Gosh, what an unfair thing to say. He should be ashamed of […]