Two students walked into music class at St. Anne School in Santa Monica. “They were bickering and calling each other names,” said Mayumi Kanagawa, a Crossroads student who is volunteering at St. Anne School. “I […]

As a lifelong resident of Santa Monica I love this city and I am proud of our City Council’s action this Tuesday night (Feb. 22). I thank City Manager Rod Gould for his courage and […]

There are certainly worse things in the world than the hubris of professional sports figures and the men who control them, but sometimes it feels as though that arrogance is just knocking the wind right […]

“An unprecedented amount of excitement” was City Council member Kevin McKeown’s wry characterization of the number of development projects planned for construction during the next five to 10 years in Santa Monica.  His comment was […]

As much as we might suspect the presence of magic or even some sort of curse, the workings of your automobile engine and the performance of your car are related to mechanical explanations. Compression, leaky […]

President Barack Obama gave a great State of the Union speech this year – great in that he presented himself as statesmanlike, reasonable, sane, intelligent, and a consensus builder. However, it was not, I believe, […]

Because Republicans in Congress have steadfastly stymied attempts to get the federal government to act against global warming and climate change, critics of California’s new carbon trading rules usually get little contradiction when they insist […]

As if summoning from a cave a dragon in order to remind us of the power of brutality and fiery exhalation, we seem to be reaching for the “breakdown of civility” with greater and greater […]

The Santa Monica Conservancy held its annual meeting on Jan. 23 at the historic Church in Ocean Park. The sanctuary was filled, bringing together Santa Monicans of many interests and opinions, but with a shared […]