Bob Taylor, AIA for SMa.r.t. (Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow) Sam Tolkin, Architect; Dan Jansenson, Architect, Building & Safety Commissioner; Mario Fonda-Bonardi, AIA, Planning Commissioner; Thane Roberts, AIA; Robert H. Taylor AIA; Ron […]
By Tom Elias It doesn’t seem that way now, with one hurricane after another battering the East and Gulf coasts, shutting down oil refineries, flooding downtowns and residential neighborhoods alike and inflicting hundreds of […]
By Steve Stajich The world has gotten smaller the last few weeks. Not just in a sense, but in fact. If you have flooded streets that are impassable, housing and businesses that must be […]
By Beverly Cohn PART 1: DAYS 1-2 Question: How many trips should a travel writer take to Ireland? Answer: As many as you’re lucky enough to receive. Just as though I carried around a […]
By Barbara Bishop I recently rented my guestroom to a young woman who needed a place to stay for about two months. She is chef. More accurately, a gelato chef. From the minute I […]
By Kelly Hartog Playwright Joseph Kesserling first dreamed up his play “Arsenic and Old Lace” back in 1939. It was originally conceived as a dark drama based on the true story of a woman […]
By Tom Elias Buried in the back pages of newspapers and not even making it onto many television and radio news programs this summer was the news that Gov. Jerry Brown again refused parole […]
Daniel Jansenson, Architect. Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow: Robert H. Taylor AIA, Mario Fonda-Bonardi AIA Planning Commissioner , Ron Goldman FAIA, Daniel Jansenson Architect, Building and Fire-Life Safety Commission, Thane Roberts AIA, Architect, […]
By Steve Stajich Let’s begin by creating a somewhat absurd parallel and see if we can come out the other end with something like a handle on the situation. That situation being that the Orpheum […]
By Tom Elias The first time Jerry Brown was governor of California, his greatest policy defeat came when resentful Northern Californians voted almost unanimously in 1982 to reverse a legislative vote authorizing a massive ditch […]
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