Dear New Shrink, I am a college student who will be graduating with a degree in English this May. I would like to work in the entertainment industry but have no idea how to get started.
I don’t want to brag, but I easily beat an 11-year-old at Trivial Pursuit for Kids last week. Technically the margin of victory was only a single piece of pie, but he never had a chance, really.
If City Hall wants us to use public transportation and reduce our car trips, why don’t they demonstrate a commitment to public transit? Instead of making the bus more convenient and better than using a car, they often do things counter to good public transportation.
My brother turned 60 this past weekend. So he had a party. He does this every 10 years, and of course I went to help celebrate another decade on the planet for the man who basically raised me.
Last August, I was approached by Oscar de la Torre, who was running for his third four-year term on the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education.
Q: I was interested in buying an item I saw advertised on Craigslist. My mother told me to be aware of scams on Craigslist. She recently read a story about someone getting robbed from a Craigslist transaction.
It’s remarkable how much of the history we were taught in school was distorted or just plain wrong. Howard Zinn, famed historian and political activist, who died in Santa Monica in January of 2010, wrote “A People’s History of the United States,” which sold 2 million copies and exposed many of these
Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching, and here is my advice; get rid of the roses and chuck the chocolate and give a gift that you will remember forever.
Dear New Shrink, I have a question regarding Valentine’s Day. It is something that has bothered me for years now. I am happily married to a man I generally get along with quite well.
Governor Brown and the Democrats in the Legislature have “called out” the Republicans, demanding that they support Brown’s plan to put massive increases in the state’s income, sales and car taxes on the ballot as a way to balance the budget.
Most bald people probably fantasize that getting a haircut would change how the world sees them and they see it. That’s why I’m probably the kind of hair-ed person they curse the most.
What we are witnessing, thanks in large part to zero tolerance policies that were intended to make schools safer by discouraging the use of actual drugs and weapons by students, is the inhumane treatment of young people and the criminalization of childish behavior.
