I have always known La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. to be the home of various renowned golf tournaments over the years, but not being a golfer I had no burning desire to visit it.
SMC — Santa Monica College officials are investigating the use of pepper spray by campus police on a group of students Tuesday who were part of a protest in opposition to a controversial plan to offer summer classes at cost to those students willing to pay full price.
BROAD STAGE — Those who filled the seats of the Broad Stage last week at the National Children’s Choir performance of “Journey of Song” expected to watch youth sing.
SM COURTHOUSE — A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Tuesday dismissed a medical marijuana testing lab owner’s request that the court force City Hall to give the facility a business license.
I’m not saying I’m above buying a celebrity-endorsed product. I have no idea what Spareavtale is, but I’d eagerly acquire it by the bushelful if it meant I, too, could inexplicably wake up with a 10-carat diamond ring that my über-sexy, affectionate and adoring new husband, George Clooney, furtively
SMC — Santa Monica College students are calling for a referendum on a first-of-its-kind policy that would give them the option to pay the full cost of some requisite classes beginning in the summer of 2012.
Nothing epitomizes the abject failure of California governance more than the so-called High Speed Rail Project or, as it has been derisively labeled, “High Speed Fail.
Those who want to contribute to a fund to restore the “Chain Reaction” sculpture in the Civic Center can now get a credit on next year’s taxes for their trouble.
CITY HALL — Sometimes, things move slowly at City Hall. The Land Use and Circulation Element update, which controls development and transportation infrastructure for the entire city, took over seven years to complete, and even still provides only a rough outline that has yet to be filled in with act
A common insult aimed at someone trying to accomplish something in the public realm these days is to say: “He’s playing politics with the issue.” And if you want to disparage a policy decision? “It was political.
SANTA MONICA — Adam Sandler and friends have scored a new high — or low — among voters of the Razzies, an Academy Awards spoof that presents prizes for the year’s worst movies.
11TH STREET — Grace Phillips thinks of herself as the “perfect target” for Santa Monica’s Bicycle Action Plan, a recently approved document that unrolls massive changes over the next 20 years to make novice cyclists feel safe on the city’s roads.
