WITH WILDFIRES RAGING THROUGHout Southern California forcing 500,000 people to evacuate, the story about Ellen Degeneres’ dog, Iggy, has been pushed to the back burner. (No pun intended.) But
BY NOW, ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE controversy involving the trees on Second and Fourth streets knows that the cutting down of some trees and relocating others, which was scheduled to
WILL ROGERS DIED IN A PLANE CRASH more than 70 years ago, but the cowboy-humorist is still one of Santa Monica’s most beloved citizens. Our beaches bear his
In the pilot of “Californication,” a Showtime original series, Hank Moody (David Duchovney) is in bed with four different and exceedingly beautiful women. That’s one every 7 1⁄2
ON MONDAY, KARL ROVE — THE long-time Bush adviser and, once, one of the most powerful men in the world — announced his resignation. (Resignation or cutting and running?) Rove says
WHEN I OPEN THE NEWSPAPER IN THE morning (assuming it’s morning), I always read the sports first. The news depresses me. I see Barry Bonds** finally broke the home
IT WAS A LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON, when I first met Susan Weinberg — artist, teacher and weekend philosopher. We sat on the patio of her art studio across from the merry-
WITH JULY 4 HAVING BEEN TWO DAYS ago, I did some checking. The observance originated in 1783, but wasn’t made a federal holiday until 1941. As all school children
