The Rader family has passed the giant, gleaming cube of the Taco Bell Discovery Center in Santa Ana dozens of times on the way to Disneyland. So we finally decided to stop by and “discover” it.
I am sitting backstage with a room full of women, all mothers, preparing to go on stage for the show Expressing Motherhood, a play about real moms sharing real stories, that I have been doing for the last two weekends.
SGI AUDITORIUM — On a rainy Monday morning when students, government workers and many others were free to sleep in, several hundred Santa Monica residents instead were at Soka Gakkai International Auditorium to celebrate the legacy of Dr.
Well, this year is off to a great start for the environmental forces. Washington D.C. has imposed a 5 cent tax on those annoying plastic bags I keep going on about.
DOWNTOWN — The Santa Monica Conservancy, dedicated to protecting historic structures here, is giving out a record number of awards this year to those who have dedicated themselves to preserving architectural gems.
CITY HALL — Lawrence Powell had just gotten off the Big Blue Bus and was crossing Santa Monica Boulevard at Ocean Avenue. As he stepped into the crosswalk, the bus he’d been riding on started to turn right, cutting into the crosswalk.
The Beatles — with two members of the group deceased — were, by the end of 2009, projected to make over $1.6 billion from the release of their 13 remastered albums, as well as the video game, “Beatles Rock Band.
Last Thursday, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education approved an Emergency Parcel Tax Feasibility Committee recommendation and voted to place a parcel tax measure on a special election ballot.
CITY HALL — Today it’s the traffic clogged intersection of the I-10 Freeway and Pacific Coast Highway, but City Hall officials think they can turn it into a green open area that will help revitalize the Civic Center.
The other day, Sarah Palin announced that she will be working for Fox News. She said one of the reasons that she is excited about working there is because it is a place “… that so values fair and balanced news.
SMMUSD HDQRTS — Voters in Santa Monica and Malibu will be asked in May to approve an “emergency” parcel tax to help district schools cope with reduced support for education from the state government.
Success doesn’t happen overnight. Success, it seems, always includes hard work and perseverance. For Vince Palmo and his wife Holly Gent-Palmo, the writers’ seemingly sudden rise to fame, with their smash indie film “Me and Orson Welles,” has been a long journey.
