What passes for a refreshing drink, either hot or cold, at any time of year is a matter of changing tastes. Certainly coffee is the uber-tonic. Its popularity never fades, and medical reports continue to […]

Who knew that a few minutes on Oprah would cause a crisis in the Tom Cruise institution, a heretofore sacrosanct establishment that has sped past the gay rumors, zoomed over the weirdness of Scientology and […]

Anne Bancroft, one of America’s great actresses, died yesterday at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City of uterine cancer. She was 73. Her range was extraordinary. She was Mrs. Robinson, who seduced her […]

Tucked off in an obscure corner of downtown Los Angeles is one of the city’s most apt and compelling museums — the Museum of Neon Art. I suppose there are people who will assume that’s […]

Santa Monica College will create a rose garden in memory of Dot Gelvin, an anthropology professor and administrator, who died a year ago at 57. The dedication ceremony for garden, on Wednesday, June 15, will […]

The Lawyers Guild will pay tribute to the now-shuttered Midnight Special Bookstore of Santa Monica and its owner Margie Ghiz at its annual dinner and fund-raiser on Sunday, June 26. The Lawyers Guild is a […]

Two issues ago, we ran a story about a New Roads program called Spectrum. Unfortunately, we misspelled the name of the writer. We identified her as Julie Krist. In fact, her last name is Kirst. […]

The Santa Monica Kiwanis Club has named the six recipients of its annual high school achievement scholarships. The scholarships are given to outstanding students who show both leadership and a commitment to community service. In […]

Mark Felt is just so greedy Unlike the president’s men (Chuck Colson’s Watergate book I think was called “Born Again.”) Mark Felt just cares about cash He’s in a glass house throwing stones (The “Born […]