I love Major League Baseball because it has the best season in sports and I love the National Football League because it has the best day in sports, but I love basketball the most because it is by far the best sport.
I am, at best, a religious mutt, at worst, I have no religion. My mother was a lapsed Protestant, my father a lapsed Catholic, I went to a Methodist church with my aunt, I attended Catholic camp in summer, and then I worked in a Jewish daycamp as a teenager.
Trees are remarkable. Urban trees and urban forests are a sign of a nation’s health and well-being. Over 150 years ago, Frederick Law Olmsted began to design the North American landscape.
Several groups have become involved with the endangered Ballona wetlands in the last few years. Some are true environmental groups out to preserve and restore as much of the endangered wetlands as possible while others want them developed.
Suppose you’re driving along and you happen to be behind an armored car. Suddenly, the back door of that armored car flies open, a bag of money hits the street, splits open, and cash starts flying all over the place.
Q: My friend had his bicycle taken. How do I prevent my bicycle from being stolen? A: First and foremost, be sure to get it registered/licensed so if your bicycle is taken, the information regarding your bicycle is available to the police department so officers can better identify and return it to y
For openers, I’d like to comment on last week’s column about the seventh anniversary of the Iraq War. One reader suggested effusively that I should get a Pulitzer Prize whereas another essentially suggested that I wasn’t worthy of a booby prize.
Dear Rachel, I’m a tomboy who feels more masculine than the men I date. I remodeled my house on my own, while my last boyfriend couldn’t even operate a drill.
Bicycle riders in Santa Monica face the wrath of petulant, self-righteous automobile drivers everyday. I’ve received obscene gestures, been cut off, honked at, screamed at, and lectured to by passing drivers — all because they feel that I somehow intrude into their space.
Environmentalists hate people. Homo sapiens are the enemies of nature and it doesn’t matter if your family has been hereditary farmers or ranchers for generations, there is always some dirty Greenpeace hippie armed with a flatulently inflated pseudo-degree in eco-busy-body-ology that considers you a
Last Sunday, the Los Angeles Marathon came to Santa Monica. Sunday was the day the cars came as well, and ate Downtown dead. Santa Monica was jammed solid (Saturday, too).
Hundreds of thousands of visitors come from around the globe to witness the spring majesty of Washington D.C.’s flowering cherry trees. This breathtaking event reminds us that trees are remarkable.
