A New Plan “Santa Monica is no longer lost in a maze of chance,” heralded the June 19, 1958 Santa Monica Evening Outlook. “It is a city with a guide.” The City of Santa Monica […]

Sun setting Monday afternoon over Santa Monica Beach. As Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday, next Monday the sun will set an hour later.

One of the more enduringly popular hikes in the Santa Monica area is the wide, loopy trail to the Parker Mesa Overlook, offered every Friday evening under the auspices of the Sierra Club.  Supervised by […]

St. Monica Gets First Victory The St. Monica baseball team broke into the victory column with a 13-3 win over Grace Brethren. The Mariners began the season with losses in four other games. They lost […]

Rock/Pop   Solomon Burke at Amoeba Music, 3/29, 7pm.  FREE.  Appearing live in support of his new album Make Do With What You Got, soul legend Burke has been aptly called “one of the most […]

In this companion piece to his one-person play “FLLW,” Crowther recreates a Wright lecture and concludes by fielding questions from the audience in character. $20, (310) 471-3979, Steinway Hall at Fields Pianos, 12121 Pico Bl. […]

Santa Monica High showed little offense in beginning the baseball season with three losses, but the Vikings won the next three and indicated they might not be a weak-hitting team. Samohi defeated Palisades in the […]

Although New Roads plays in a lower division and receives less recognition than other Santa Monica schools, the Jaguars have a successful athletic program. The school did well in basketball last season and has a […]

It’s been a basketball season to forget. The Lakers are fading out of playoff contention, the Clippers are even lower, UCLA was knocked out of the NCAA Tournament in the first round, USC didn’t even […]

Responding to the call of good citizenship, I was in a Santa Ana courthouse last Wednesday as a member of a huge jury pool. Because the case in question involved a capital crime, jury selection […]