Last week’s Part 1 covered the deadlock: thirty-three years of Santa Monica failing to get its Local Coastal Program certified, and a bill designed to bypass that process entirely. The housing provisions deserve their own […]
By CHARLES ANDREWS WILL STEPHEN COLBERT HAVE THE LAST LAUGH? I sure hope so. But he had the laugh on me when I watched the first of his last four shows and panned it. There […]
If you live in Santa Monica and have ever wondered why the city seems to have so little control over what gets built near the beach, the answer traces back to a bureaucratic failure that […]
By Charles Andrews I DIDN’T START OUT THIS WAY I was a good kid. Stayed away from trouble. But I was a lousy student, despite scoring high on aptitude tests, was a National Merit Scholar, […]
Santa Monica officially reports numerous new business openings, often highlighted by the media as signs of economic recovery. However, a walk through the streets tells a different story; it appears less like a revival and […]
By CHARLES ANDREWS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Final Performances -“BLUE KISS,” Ruskin Group Theatre – I hope you’ve taken the opportunity to experience this all-around excellent two-actor play, a most unusual story slowly revealed like layers of […]
Walk down Ocean Park Boulevard, and you can feel something coming. Development signs announce seven- and eight-story buildings that will tower over local shops and restaurants. Almost 1,000 mostly luxury units. Across Santa Monica, neighbors […]
By CHARLES ANDREWS NOW, THAT’S JUST SILLY With all that’s going on in the world, you’re going to use this precious space to complain about… sports on TV? (Hang with me on this.) That was […]
By CHARLES ANDREWS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: TONIGHT! – VERDI “FALSTAFF,” L.A. OPERA – Drink it in, the incomparable Romantic Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi borrows a really good story from the British Bard. Expect comic mayhem, […]
Attached is an article SMa.r.t. wrote in 2018, and short of a brief comment, I’m not going to edit or alter it, as it is prescient to what we are no doubt about to experience […]
