November 23, 2025
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It’s Back! The Other Venice Film Festival:

The Other Venice Film Festival, which is dedicated to screening full-length, short and animated films that embody “the spirit, energy and diversity” of Venice itself, returns for a second and far busier season this weekend. […]

Malibu Artists Showing Work in Colony Plaza:

Santa Monica artist Amy Roemer’s acrylic on canvas painting, “Serenity,” is one of over 100 artworks currently on view in the Malibu Art Association All Member Show at the Malibu Colony Plaza, Pacific Coast Highway […]

Exuberance is Beauty: Millions****

If you find yourself wondering where all the good films have gone, the answer is that they’re still being made but they’re being made in foreign countries.  The bottom line anywhere but here isn’t profit, […]

CALIFORNIA FOCUS: Why The Big Rush To Spend $70 Million?:

When consumers rush to spend their money, not thinking much about whether there’s a cheaper and better alternative, they often awaken a few days later to find they’ve been had. Which ought to make California […]

Dish It Out, Ladies:

WASHINGTON – When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit, giving a kung fu kick to […]

CALIFORNIA FOCUS: Why The Big Rush To Spend $70 Million?:

When consumers rush to spend their money, not thinking much about whether there’s a cheaper and better alternative, they often awaken a few days later to find they’ve been had. Which ought to make California […]

Hypocrisy and Meanness:

Will Rogers once said that whenever he feared he was running out of comic material, he just looked at what Congress did the day before.  Well, the same applies to me when I am seeking […]

Our Master’s Voice:

I’m reaching into dust-covered files when I pull out the RCA dog. The Radio Corporation of America—which it really was at one time, with parts and labor from America—had a corporate logo, a mascot really, […]

The Monsters That Ate Santa Monica:

When an institution reaches a certain size and speed, it inevitably begins to elevate its own interests and welfare over the interests and welfare of the people it was created to serve. City Hall was […]