Here’s a holiday wish I picked up last year, “Have a merry RamaKwanakuhbodimastice.” It incorporates Ramadan, Kwanzaa, Chanukah, Bodhi Day, Christmas and the Winter Solstice.
City Hall is at it again. This time it’s a proposal by the Housing and Economic Development Department to raise rents for eateries offering outdoor dining service on public property throughout the city.
Q: I live across the street from a park in Santa Monica and for the last several weeks a group of people have been hanging out in the park and making a lot of noise.
The 112th Congress, in which Tea Party members will be among the one in four members of Congress who are newly elected, will make for great political theater with sound bytes being broadcast, tweeted and repeated throughout the next two years.
For me, former talk-show host Dick Cavett summed up column writing best. “At first you think this is easy. Then it’s uh, oh, I’m running out of stuff.
Dear New Shrink, I have two children and I love them both. But they are as different as different can be. One is in the business world — financial banking — and the other is a therapist, like you, but her credentials are somewhat different.
That time of year has arrived when you’re inevitably trying to recall the origins of the relationship between eggnog and the birth of Jesus, and also beating your head against the wall while moaning, “Why does my Christmas list seem to get longer every year, and who are these people that keep creepi
We’ve seen this before. An ostensibly conservative legislator sells out California taxpayers by voting for a massive tax increase and everyone is left dumbfounded wondering how could this possibly happen.
Wait a second. Something does not make any sense. How can President George Bush and President Barrack Obama come up with the same strategy as presidents? You see, as a Republican, I can say that watching President Dubbya spend a trillion dollars on wars, expanding the size of the debt and government
I’m doing something different. I don’t normally write out in public. I prefer to write in the early morning with a hot pot of coffee, in my super comfy flannel furry pants, and a dog curled up next to me.
Last week a number of readers e-mailed asking what each of them can do to help combat global warming. Since 193 countries meeting at the U.N. climate conference in Cancun were unable to reach any consensus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it’s up to each of us to lend a helping hand because glo
There’s a new scandal at the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. In October of 2008, the district initiated an investigation following a complaint that a teacher sexually harassed a 13-year-old female student in a ninth grade math class — a violation of SMMUSD policy 5145.
