DOWNTOWN — In a light, musical voice, Felix Garcia told a crowd of onlookers a harsh tale of failed hope, shattered dreams and ultimate redemption. Garcia, 57, crossed the country with plans to set his life up for success in bustling Los Angeles.
My wife and I have been traveling around southern Europe for over two months. Now we are on a Celebrity Cruise ship on the way back to New York. We visited family and friends all over southern Europe, from a week in Portugal to visit our daughter and her family, to a week playing golf in Spain, a we
Eastern Ocean Park Boulevard boasts a variety of great restaurants, burger joints, and local eateries, but no place personifies your neighborhood nook better than the Ocean Park Cafe.
Santa Monica has been designated a “Citizen-Engaged Community” by the Public Technology Institute. The institute, a nonprofit national research organization, gave Santa Monica the award for its use of Web, telephone and mobile technologies to connect residents and businesses with city services.
Film Independent announced that, for the second time in a row and the 18th time since 1985, the Spirit Awards will be held on Santa Monica Beach on Feb.
“The God of Isaac” is an irritatingly unconvincing play, despite the earnest charm of its leading man, Adam Korson. Korson plays Isaac Adams, a Jewish journalist in Chicago happily married to his blonde “shiksa goddess,” a badly wigged fashion model played by Corryn Cummins.
Q: I often drive down to Main Street and park at a meter. On occasion I have seen meters that indicate “Fail” or are broken. What happens if I park at a broken meter? Am I allowed to? A: Yes, you are allowed to do so.
Social causes and alternate forms of transportation are common in Santa Monica, so it should be no surprise that the two have fused in the fifth annual Skate the Coast on Saturday.
CITY HALL — A coalition of Santa Monica employee unions agreed to alter their own health care payments and cut benefits to future employees in a nod to the growing burden of employee health and pension costs on public coffers.
I’m back and leaner than ever since my start at Burn Fitness or what I like to call the home of the FatBurn “system of guaranteed weight loss.” Yup! That’s right, guaranteed.
CITY HALL — “Why nix the bricks?” Santa Monica City Councilmember Kevin McKeown’s pithy inquiry cut to the heart of one of the last remaining questions regarding the design of the Town Square Park in front of City Hall, which became a battleground between the Landmarks Commission and an internationa
CARSON — Economically battered California has promised government retirees billions of dollars in future benefits that it might not be able to pay, and legislators Wednesday kicked off a new round of talks to contain rising pension costs that are causing havoc across the state.
