By CHARLES ANDREWS RAINS, POURS Get out your calendars and credit cards, if you don’t want to miss out on a week packed with such cool things to do and see, and hear. What a […]

By CHARLES ANDREWS WHAT ELSE? Are they willing to sacrifice for yet more unaffordable housing, denser and taller? CAROLINE TOROSIS, DAN HALL, NATALYA ZERNITSKAYA, JESSE ZWICK. Great park land, perhaps?  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: BRAVO GUSTAVO! BEETHOVEN, […]

By CHARLES ANDREWS I HAVE TO LEAD WITH THIS: This past weekend, Gustavo Dudamel presented an extraordinary and courageous performance, transforming Beethoven’s formidable “Egmont” into a searing rebuke for the horrors being inflicted on Americans, […]

By Charles Andrews  THE NEW RUSKIN GROUP THEATRE IS OPEN, AND IT’S GORGEOUS! I hope to see their opening production, “Honour,” very soon, and to give you the lowdown, but I can tell you, in […]

By CHARLES ANDREWS YOUR FRIENDLY WEEKLY REMINDER Four City Council members – DAN HALL, JESSE ZWICK, NATALYA ZERNITSKAYA, CAROLINE TOROSIS – Voted to throw away the best chance we had to not only save the […]

By CHARLES ANDREWS “CULTURE” IS VERY SUBJECTIVE Woody Allen once complained in “Annie Hall” that the only culture in California was “being able to turn right on a red light.” Outdated completely, of course, if […]

By CHARLES ANDREWS I have been mocked for using that “title” to describe Santa Monica. It is partly aspirational, in our being known that way (blame our troglodytic City functionaries for more often getting in […]