It’s fair to say they did it to themselves. The future of California’s more than 400 municipal redevelopment agencies is completely unclear today, more than one month after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a budget-enabling bill […]

A sunny, summer day, a good day for a grandmother to push her one year old grandchild in a stroller along Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica. Then the unthinkable occurred. It was shortly after 3:30 […]

May 4, 2011. Santa Monica High School. A brown practice dummy with a rope around its neck, an African-American student chained to a locker, and racial slurs being used, are all allegations currently under investigation […]

Here’s one way to get a conversation started at your next party: Ask everyone in the room to define the purpose or function of public art. Does public art add beauty? Must it commemorate? Should […]

Last week I struggled to convert one type of music file (my original content, not someone else’s) into another type of music file on my new computer, which has some fantastic features that I may […]

Let’s not jump into any wrong-headed promotional campaigns just yet. Even though “Santa Monica: We’ll Leave You Alone” is a bumper sticker that might appeal to lots of people looking to get away from it […]

Charlotte Biren and Jenna Perelman have been thinking about the natural environment and preparing to be environmental stewards since their elementary school days. They shine with confidence in their understanding of what needs to be […]

Have you looked at the ingredients on your cereal box lately? Today’s supermarkets are often stocked with packaged foods plagued with nasty additives, used to increase flavor and maintain freshness – they may add to […]

Officials of various departments, agencies, and businesses in Santa Monica are asked every year: Why doesn’t Santa Monica have fireworks on the Fourth of July? More specifically, why isn’t there something on the Santa Monica […]