I hate being wrong. When first I reported upon the brand new “Fat Actress” on Showtime and “Medium” on ABC, I wasn’t too thrilled with either. But over time the shows have hit their strides, […]

Summer still has the power to make us all feel like twelve year-olds again, escaping our silly lives and the glare of the sun, and seeking the air-conditioned darkness of fantasy. Admittedly, most of those […]

The John Muir School PTA will hold its annual Silent Auction and Dinner Dance in the Grand Ballroom of the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel on Friday April 22, 2005 from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 […]

The longest running event of any kind in Santa Monica, the Canyon Charter School’s legendary Fiesta and Silent Auction will be held for the 111th year on Sunday, April 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 […]

Santa Monica College’s first Earth Day Film Festival will run Friday from 6 to 10 p.m. and Saturday from 3 to 10 p.m. Author Adeline Peter Raboff who appears in Oil on Ice, which links […]

The 21st century has been far kinder to Marion Davies thus far than the 20th century was.  In 2001, Turner Classic Movies premiered a documentary film about her that restored her reputation as an extremely […]

Where are the natives the nativest? That question, in not quite that form, has been on my mind ever since I got to Southern California in mid-January. It’s easy enough to find examples of all […]

A scandal is like any other melodrama: It can’t be a crowd pleaser unless the audience can follow the plot. That’s why Monica Lewinsky trumped Whitewater, and that’s why of all the story lines ensnaring […]

One of the things that I can’t figure out about the Bush team is why an administration that is so focused on projecting U.S. military strength abroad has taken such little interest in America’s economic […]

What is it about art that we can’t seem to get everyone onboard in some kind of general agreement? Books, for example, never seem to face the same survival challenges as the visual arts. There’s […]