LA BBQ Festival www.labbqfest.com September 9-11 Friday: 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. $60/day Santa Monica Pier After a two year hiatus, the Third LA BBQ Festival returns […]

Chez Jay is a popular bar-restaurant on Santa Monica’s Ocean Avenue, which boasts an ample menu and a well-stocked cellar. But its most famous food story concerns a peanut in a shell, like the ones […]

Feeling like the absent-minded professor lately? Memory is an intricate and complex function of the brain. It requires millions of neurons to operate in perfect harmony and as we age, we experience memory glitches in […]

A local Santa Monica dermatologist is offering free, potentially lifesaving skin screenings to the public every Friday for the rest of September. With the end of summer right around the corner, the public can see, […]

The departed administration of ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been thoroughly discredited, its record of bending public policy to the whims of campaign donors often demonstrated and his own lack of trustworthiness amply proven. But pockets […]

The last time I utilized our city’s Household Hazardous Waste Center was about two months ago. We had replaced two very long fluorescent bulbs in a laundry room fixture. While they save energy and generally […]

The voices of Santa Monicans asking for alternatives to city traffic congestion, environmental advocates wanting to reduce Santa Monica’s carbon footprint, residents wishing to incorporate more exercise into daily life, are joining their voices to […]