“Know Before You Go” is a weekly update on construction projects throughout Santa Monica. Here is a run-down of this week’s construction projects initiated by City Hall Annenberg
As the city transforms itself from a sleepy little beach town into a hustling and bustling metropolis there are some that believe that the breaks need to be put on
By ALEX EPSTEIN is an analyst at the Ayn Rand Institute (www.aynrand.org) in Irvine, Calif.
AS WE WITNESS LARGE NUMBERS OF defaults on subprime loans — loans extended to
By Lindsay Heyman Santa Monica
“Oh my goodness, I’m never going to get to work on time with this traffic.” That’s probably what most citizens who travel on
Westside residents who have not responded to jury-service notices mailed on three separate occasions to their last known address could face stiff penalties plus a new jury assignment this
Due to the recent rainfall, run-off is likely to enter ocean waters in the Los Angeles County area, prompting county health officials to warn residents not to go into
Resident Lise Hill is this week’s Mystery Photo winner, having correctly identified the image, which features the magical monkey in front of Magicopolis on Fourth Street in downtown.
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What a panoramic, impressionistic and surrealistic journey is Vincent Paronanaud and Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis,” a poignant coming-of age story of an Iranian girl experiencing the tumultuous changes in
By Kenn Tarr Notes from the film scoundrel
I HAVE BEEN GETTI NG NAUSEOUS a lot lately and it culminated last night. Watching late night talk shows without writers is
‘The Wire’ is a gritty street drama
By BYJACKNEWORTH CHANNELSURFING
From the first episode of “The Wire,” HB0’s critically acclaimed police drama set in Baltimore, I sensed this was
Tim Burton’s sixth collaboration with Johnny Depp is a debacle. In Depp’s first bad movie since “The Astronaut’s Wife” (1998), blood and meat pies are served up
By KEN TARR is a student at Santa Monica College, an actor and writer and is also taller than 99 percent of the population. He telepathically or at
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