The Santa Monica High School Performing Arts Department will hold its seventh annual Masterworks Series Concert in Barnum Hall on the Samohi campus on Friday, April 29, 2005 at 7pm. Begun in 1998, the Masterworks […]

The extraordinary life and accomplishments of legendary curator Walter Hopps (1932-2005) will be celebrated on May 3, his birthday, at Santa Monica Museum of Art. The celebration will at 6:30 p.m. with remarks by Elsa […]

At first flush, and perhaps for the first hour,  The Interpreter seems to be a one of those great political thrillers of the ‘70s and early ‘80s, something Sidney Lumet might have made.  It stars […]

One of Venice’s most notable features is its  gardens, but, though everyone has heard of them,  they are seldom seen, as they are tucked away behind fences and hedges. However, on Saturday, May 7, garden […]

My favorite part of No Child Left Behind Is how it leaves lots Of schools in a bind. Despite promises that Are bright and sunny The Bushies don’t want To show them the money. Teachers […]

At the April 26 Council meeting, I proposed that the City hire a Homeless Initiative Secretary for a period of 18 months. I am writing this column before the meeting. I hope a news story […]

On April 14 I listened as CEO/ Principal Ilene Straus described Samo as a school with minimal tension and many safeguards against violence to a tour group of prospective students and parents. On April 15, […]

I would like to propose – just for the sheer orneriness of it all – a preposterous foreign policy: a foreign policy based on Judeo-Christian values. Now, I know we are supposed “to render unto […]

There’s a story about Walt Disney that goes something like this: Late in the man’s life, a child attending some kind of special event asked Disney if he might draw a little Mickey Mouse figure […]

Red light district? To the editor: It is apparently not enough to have several massage parlors on Lincoln Boulevard as well as rampant prostitution. Now we have a new sex shop on Lincoln Boulevard and […]