The 2005 Santa Monica Citywide Reads selection is The  Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Published by Riverhead Books in 2003, the novel is set in Afghanistan and California over a period of three decades The […]

Renowned muralist Judy Baca recently conducted an art workshop for 10 local foster care children at the Social and Publics Art Resources Center (SPARC) in Venice, as part of the National Court Appointed Special Advocates […]

It’s an odd game of chance, when child actors become too familiar to us on the big screen. What will happen when nature takes its course and morphs their young selves into what will be […]

The Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors has announced that parking lots 1, 2 and 3 at Dockweiler State Beach, at 8255 Vista del Mar at Imperial Highway will be closed to beachgoers […]

Your buds, your gal pals, even your teachers show up at Samohi day in and day out, sporting the usual Levis, t-shirt, and Gap sweater. So I’m guessing that, for most students, seeing their biology […]

It was the ultimate blending of fantasy and reality. The occasion was a speech by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to a hotel ballroom full of travel industry investors and for this larger-than-life governor, no human introduction […]

Would I have bet on this outcome? No way. What did Blake drink when he got home?O.J.

Bush officials have always been eager to pose as the tough guys willing to make the tough decisions. On Iraq and Afghanistan, they did. But when it comes to China, the Bush administration is engaged […]

Men are always telling me not to generalize about them. But a startling new study shows that science is backing me up here. Research published last week in the journal Nature reveals that women are […]

In episodes of the old “Star Trek” TV series — the classic first one with Shatner holding in his gut — there were often stories predicated on the idea that, somewhere, there was an alternative […]