SUNSET PARK — Displacement. It’s the property that keeps boats, and people, floating in a body of water. It suggests that since two objects cannot exist in the same place at the same time, one will inevitably push the other out of the way.
Amidst a down economy, it is refreshing to hear a success story, especially when that story began right here in Santa Monica and involves one of the most competitive and cutthroat industries around — the beverage business.
Q: My cousin just moved in with me and it turns out he is on probation. Will that affect me or my job? Is there anything I can do to help him stay out of jail? A: These are great questions and you could find yourself in this particular situation any time you are attempting to help a family member ge
SMC — The Santa Monica College Board of Trustees Friday put the brakes on a controversial program that would have required students to shoulder the entire cost of optional summer courses.
I have always loved asparagus. But the minute I tasted grilled asparagus, it went from a vegetable I liked to one that I was madly in love with. Every time I make it — seasoned with my basic grilling trilogy of olive oil, salt and pepper — people ask for the recipe.
DOWNTOWN — On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was cut down by an assassin’s bullet, elevating the most powerful voice of the civil rights movement from leader to martyr.
CITYWIDE — If afflicted with the drunk munchies while wandering Main Street on a weekend, revelers have two options: Hit up Holy Guacamole, or walk to Los Angeles.
SMC — Hundreds of students gathered outside the Santa Monica College president’s office in a third day of protests calling for an end to a proposal to make students shoulder the entire cost of certain summer school classes and punishment for campus police that pepper sprayed students and onlookers a
Apple has gone on a very public tax strike. Months after reporting the second highest quarterly profits in U.S. history, America’s favorite company is refusing to bring home more than $60 billion of offshore funds in protest of the taxes it would have to pay.
Those of us who voted for John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1960 were fortunate enough to experience the exhilaration, the hope, and the joyful anticipation that his election brought to the nation.
Shore Hotel was awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, making it the first Santa Monica hotel to bear the sustainable distinction, representatives from the hotel announced Wednesday.
About 10,000 years ago Earth’s climate lurched from bitter ice age conditions to the much balmier time in which we live today. We don’t fully understand what caused that great climate shift, but we know it was near the time of that great temperature transition that people started to farm.
