Years ago, a musician friend of mine used to do a bad impression of Billy Graham. It was bad because it was completely dependent on one fillip: He would pronounce the word “exhumed” as though […]

Two victories for residents To the editor: Last Tuesday, the City Council was faced with two important decisions affecting the redevelopment of Santa Monica Place. The first — to remove it from the Civic Center […]

The Sport of Politics Politics is a lot like sports. Consider the trade Angelenos just made, moving Hahn and Miscikowski to the minor leagues and bringing up Antonio Villaraigoisa and Bill Rosendahl. I like that […]

In the early 1990s, with no fanfare at all, City documents split Santa Monica in two: City Hall became “the City” and the rest of us were “the city.” The difference was telling…and crucial. The […]

Frederick Fisher and Partners, Architects, have offices at 12248 Santa Monica Boulevard, just east of Santa Monica. The firm was established in 1980 by Fisher. David Ross and Joseph Coriaty are also principals in the […]

Santa Monica High School student Emily Bennion has been selected to participate in the Foundation of the State Bar of California’s Legal Heritage Institute, a one-week, all-expenses paid legal literacy summer program for high school […]

It shouldn’t surprise anyone to learn that we have misspelled another name. Eleanor Blumenberg herself put it neatly: “While my comments as chair of the Social Services Commission were reported accurately, for the record, my […]

Bernard J. Somers, professor of psychology at California State University at Los Angeles, and a practicing clinical psychologist in Santa Monica and West L.A. for four decades, died on June 18 in Los Angeles due […]

The Santa Monica Police Department has identified the suspects involved in Wednesday’s robbery of the First Federal Bank on Main Street in Santa Monica as Pedro Rivera, 27, of Temple City and Dexter Glasgow, 35, […]

Dear Mr. Anderson, Recently, representatives of the Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City (“SMCLC”) contacted you to learn more about the public review process for any future Macerich proposal for the redevelopment of Santa […]