By Tom Elias For decades, a struggle has raged across America to protect young people from the negative aspects of drinking alcohol. Now, that fight has spread to newly legalized recreational marijuana, with several California […]

Architecture should grow out of its environment, not dominate it.  Paraphrasing our City Manager, “Every city has its own character and Santa Monica should not stray from its identity.” However, in the immediate future, the […]

By Beverly Cohen: Editor-at-Large Part 2 – Charles Cohen’s Personal Odyssey   Charles S. Cohen’s Cohen Media Group has established the reputation of acquiring, producing, and/or distributing some of the finest foreign films, many of […]

By Steven Stajich You promised yourself after the election that you would stop obsessing about you-know-who and his expanding band of Merry Pranksters. But it’s been hard, hasn’t it? And by the time you read […]

By Sam Skopp On Saturday, January 28, the Santa Monica Pier was host to its first Odd Market. This is the newest of five monthly Odd Market events that occur throughout Los Angeles, following a […]

Phil discovers some fascinating stories about Santa Monica’s Ocean Park neighborhood with local historian Richard Orton.