Two of stand-up comedy’s biggest names will perform at the annual benefit for one of Santa Monica’s smallest schools, McKinley Elementary School, on Tuesday, April 12, at Shutters on the Beach Hotel in Santa Monica. […]

Ah, celebrities. We love to build them up, we love to tear them down. Knowing all of this, they dive headlong into fame, scratching and clawing their way to the top, only to then complain […]

In 1965, when a young Frank Zappa was getting started in the entertainment business, he had a small music and film studio in the tiny desert town of Cucamonga, 75 miles east of Los Angeles. […]

A triumvirate of renowned French screenwriter/directors,  Claude Lelouch, Costa-Gavras and Bertrand Tavernier, will appear at the premieres of their newest films at the ninth annual City of Lights, City of Angels Film Festival, which will […]

In four days, April 14 to 18, the Malibu Film Festival (MFF) will screen over 30 films at the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theater in Santa Monica. On the program are Short Live Action Films, Animated […]

L.A. Louver will mount the first West Coast exhibition of landscape paintings by Fred Williams (1927-1982), one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists. The opening reception for Fred Williams: The Later Landcapes: 1975-1981 will be held […]

Somewhere between Raymond Chandler and R. Crumb lives Sin City, the graphic comics by the revered Frank Miller that have now been transformed into a visually stunning film noir for the ADD generation – a […]

Some of Santa Monica’s most talented performers will star in the second annual Celebration For the Arts on the Santa Monica Pier this weekend.   They are the award-winning members of well over a dozen student […]

You might not want to read this if you are Catholic and easily putout.  I have no intention of offending anyone, but I have a feeling that, since I am not Catholic, or a Christian, […]

Angela Reddock, one of his two opponents for the Los Angeles District 11 City Council seat in the primary, endorsed Bill Rosendahl late last week as the “clear and best choice to protect our neighborhoods […]