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.
Not long ago, a major California newspaper ran an editorial cartoon depicting pith-helmeted explorers peering through jungle growth at a crumbling temple where worshipers bow down before a stone alter on which is carved, “Prop.
Newton Minow, the oft-critical former FCC chairman, delivered a courageous speech in 1961 to the National Association of Broadcasters, referring to TV as a “vast wasteland.
I have a friend who constantly criticizes me. He has a very sarcastic personality so he plays it off as humor. Recently he’s been blatantly ignoring me when we are in a group situation or making me feel as if I am not welcome.
Discussing suicide is tricky. I know because I do it all the time. I am a survivor of suicide loss, and I am not alone. There are 33,000 deaths by suicide in the United States every year.
Despite finishing third in this summer’s Tour de France, seven-time champion Lance Armstrong remained the big man on campus in Aspen, because his son was born a few weeks prior to the start of the race at Aspen Valley Hospital.
Sept. 11 came and went this past week with a meager whimper of real notice. Flags were flourished at half-mast while puerile politicians hid behind perfunctory homilies of gas-baggery who wish to put a happy faced Band-Aid on that blistering memory of atavistic brutality against America on that sunn
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson and his outburst during our president’s address to a joint session of Congress last week.
Of the 110 or so pine species, three cousins classified as foxtail pines live for thousands of years and hold many answers to anti-aging. Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva), Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (P.
