Given the number of emails I received, last week's column about Santa Monica development or over-development, touched a nerve. Surprisingly, the emails were polite. You see I'
When I moved to the Shores in 1974, (then the Santa Monica Shores) of the 532 units, there were about 175 vacancies. Actually, years before the two, 17-story high-rises had
Unfortunately, I'm riveted with the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius in South Africa. Pistorius was born without fibulas (calf bones) and had both legs amputated below the knee
Last night, at the Aero Theatre there was a showing of a compelling and emotionally moving documentary on the remarkable life of Gore Vidal, "The United States of Amnesia.
The men's NCAA basketball tournament, which began in 1939, has evolved into one of the biggest annual sporting events in America. Not coincidentally it's also the
As with many writers, I've had a number of odd jobs. (Keyword: odd.)
For example, in college I parked cars at a mafia-financed restaurant where I occasionally encountered
Apparently while we were all watching bobsledding at the Sochi Olympics the Russian government was ruthlessly planning an invasion of Ukraine. (Newscasters pronounce it YOU-crane as Bush used to pronounce
Mark Twain once observed, "Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it." I'm writing a column about it, which, I suppose, is just
As a student of politics, I'm often interested in the lives of renowned office holders before they entered the political world. For example, Harry Truman was a haberdasher
Santa Monica High School graduate Elaine (Jones) Stephenson (Class of 1951) has almost finished writing "All the Painted Ponies", a charming non-fiction book about growing up in Santa
