You must have seen the movie, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, director Don Siegel’s 1956 cult classic, in which soulless pods take over the bodies of the residents of a small California town – […]

Harvard philosopher George Santayana famously wrote, “When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” An article in last week’s Mirror, “Master […]

Chrysalis’ fourth annual Butterfly Ball on Saturday, April 9 will raise money to help economically disadvantaged and homeless people to find jobs. Oren Aviv, Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures Marketing, Dana Walden, Twentieth Century […]

In the wake of a rash of residential and business robberies in Pacific Palisades (see related story, this page), the West Los Angeles Area Community Police Station will host a Senior Lead Officer summit on […]

On Sunday, April 3, Christopher Ragsdale, Senior Lead Officer, West Los Angeles Community Police Station, issued the following “Business Robbery Summary” in Pacific Palisades for March, detailing what he described as “a sharp increase in […]

Santa Monica’s Architectural Review Board was given a presentation on the redevelopment of Santa Monica Place at its Monday night meeting. Assistant City Manager Gordon Anderson and consultant Daniel Iacofano outlined the process by which […]

As the villainous Noah Cross famously said about tidepools in Robert Towne’s Chinatown, “That’s where life begins. Sloughs, tidepools.” Tidepools harbor a wide range of marine wildlife, but the health of Malibu’s tidepools has been […]

Facilitators for the “visioning workshop” held last Tuesday by Santa Monica College (SMC) at Barker Hangar for its new Airport Campus found themselves at odds with residents on both the workshop process and the proposed […]