UCLA Healthcare Seeks Volunteers Anyone interesting in learning about rewarding volunteer opportunities to help others ought to check out the Volunteer Services department, that will host an Open House from 2 to 4 p.m. on […]

Discover Your Personal Exodus Story at the SkirballFacilitated by Ruth Broyde-Sharone – co-founder of the Festival of Freedom, a world movement to create bridges for friendship and peace — Discover Your Personal Exodus Story: A […]

The recent obsession with Terri Schiavo reignites the age-old debate — which came first, the media onslaught or the public’s hunger?  It’s hard to know whether the Schiavo deathwatch would have reached its fevered pitch […]

I have always believed that Walter Hopps was born ahead of the curve, and he was still out there, ahead of us, when he died of pneumonia in Los Angeles on March 22 at 72.  […]

Sponsored by TEN, an adult cable TV channel,  “XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits,” an exhibition by renowned photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, opens at Bergman Turner Projects, Gallery E1, Bergamot Station, on Friday, April 1. It will […]

Padua Playwrights Productions is presenting the world premiere of The Gary Plays, the first three plays in a quartet of new work by renowned playwright Murray Mednick. Taken as a whole,  the three plays,  Tirade […]

The Ballad of Jack and Rose, the disturbing and ultimately pointless new film by Rebecca Miller, and starring her real-life husband, Daniel Day-Lewis, seems to have a lot to say but ends up saying nothing […]

Known for opening for Jackson Browne, David Crosby and Stevie Nicks, local band Venice will go solo next weekend on the Santa Monica Pier, Friday and Saturday,  April 8 and 9, at a pair of […]

Oh my God, we really are in a theocracy. Are the Republicans so obsessed with maintaining control over all branches of government, and are the Democrats so emasculated about not having any power, that they […]

As a corollary to “if you build it they will come,” I propose: “if it’s not there, they won’t drive to it.” Let’s have a little review, ladies and gentlemen, of where we are in […]