An entire runway collection begins with a single pillowcase. Last week, I took an intro to sewing class, along with five other women, at the Urban Craft Center on Main Street.
Dear Rachel, Help! My stress level is off the charts. My boyfriend’s mood swings are making my life a living hell. He can be unbelievably sweet for about a week but inevitably his temper blows no matter what I do.
For a while I was worried about how to best ensure my daughter was getting the proper nutrients in her diet. However, I’ve come to realize that while I’m some 38 inches taller and many, many pounds heavier than her (not to mention much more adept at using my thumbs and other fingers), I’m still most
Dear New Shrink, My sister and brother are both UC students and I expected that I would also get into a UC, too. Even though we have about the same GPA and SAT scores, I am attending a local college instead.
The expression “you have to learn how to walk before you can run” holds true in many aspects of life. The expression means you have to do step “A” before you can do step “B.
I’ve heard the expressions “crap flows down hill” and “good cop/bad cop” thousands of times, but I never understood them until last week. Oddly, it was the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System who brought those phrases into focus at the monthly meeting on the progress of the decade-long c
I love my cigar! The partaking of a fine Honduran panatela approaches near divinity especially while club hunting hope-and-change unicorns with my Tiger Woods 9 iron.
Mysterious pre-Incan peoples ruled present-day Chile, Peru and Bolivia. From the arid northern coastal plains of Peru rose the blood thirsty Moche. And from the Altiplano Plateau — second highest plateau in the world — 2 miles above sea level and 994 miles southeast of the Moche peoples, rose the mi
Editor’s Note: The Quackers are three awesome ducks from the canals of Venice who are on a mission to educate the community about the dangers of global warming and the importance of practicing sustainability, all while surfing the most gnarly waves possible.
Today is the first day of fall. There are officially 100 days left in calendar year 2009. This means that any day now there will be Christmas music streaming from the open doorways of the stores on the Third Street Promenade and the pervasive smells of cinnamon, pine and cloves will be wafting over
Federal law mandates that all high schools, colleges and universities across the country that receive federal funds host educational events about the Constitution on Constitution Day, Sept.
There’s something strange going on in Downtown Santa Monica. City Hall is eager to push full speed ahead on a new movie complex to replace an aging, 339-space parking structure at 1320 Fourth St.
