Q: I keep hearing about the 405 Freeway shutting down for the weekend of July 16-17. I am not a Santa Monica resident, but I work and socialize in the city on the weekends.
Among the reasons Santa Monica is famous worldwide may be due to the many celebrities who live here. Or, at least who get arrested here. Back in the 1920s, our fair city was at the center of the mysterious disappearance of famed radio evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson (AKA “Sister Aimee”).
Santa Monica’s City Council sent a clear message to its congressional representative, Henry Waxman, this week: keep “Frankenfish” in the lab and off our dinner plates.
Dear New Shrink, I have a very hard time getting the rest I need each night. My doctor has given me some medication but told me not to take it every evening.
Help comes in a lot of different ways for the homeless. Santa Monica has one of the best systems of care in the country. Good words can travel quite a distance.
Is 16 months before the next presidential election too soon to be over it? Because if so, then, oops. Raise your hand if you’re over it already, too. It’s hard to believe that election time is nearly upon us again because many are still recovering from the agita of the last one.
What do women really want from our president? This is a question President Obama should be asking if he wants to keep his job for another term, which hinges on the women’s vote.
I started cooking when I was 5. I didn’t have the fancy cooking classes that children today have, like those my friend Samantha Saffir Barnes teaches at the First Presbyterian Church Kitchen on Second Street.
Another controversy is brewing at the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. This time it concerns student wrestlers and racism at Santa Monica High School.
Q: My family and I are excited to celebrate the Fourth of July this year. We are staying at a hotel in Santa Monica and wondered where we should watch fireworks from? What can you recommend? A: Unfortunately, it has been about 22 years since the city of Santa Monica has had fireworks.
Fireworks in L.A. may come a few days early this year. Instead of July 4, ours could begin July 1. That’s when Dodgers owner Frank McCourt is due to come up with a mere $30 million to meet payroll.
If there was any doubt about the broken state of our prison system, the news this week should put it to rest. The Global Commission on Drug Policy, made up of former presidents and other luminaries from the United States and abroad, concludes that the Drug War is an expensive failure.
