Coming next month, April 16 through 19, the 36th Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach takes to its street course under the auspices of IndyCar, which now combines the Champ Car and Indy Racing League series for the first time in a dozen years.
<i>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.
Just how many homeless are in Santa Monica? Determining the actual number of individuals is difficult. A 1990 RAND study indicated there were 1,397 homeless people in our city.
Over the past few months, I’ve heard from many Americans who feel they’ve lost the power to be heard by their government. From the repeated assaults on our civil liberties to the financial ruin brought about by irresponsible corporations and government officials, Americans feel helpless and beaten d
I was half-reading a book and half-watching TV the other day, when I thought I heard someone on TV advertising a “colonoscopy sweepstakes.” I assumed that either I had heard wrong or it was a spoof on sweepstakes contests, so I put my book down to find out.
I’ll be honest, this hasn’t been such a great week. Then again, it wasn’t so great for Bernie Madoff, who’s now about as popular as Hannibal Lecter. Nor for bombastic TV stock analyst Jim Cramer, who was “ripped a new one” on John Stewart’s “Daily Show.
Obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are all health problems on the rise. They are also conditions that can be minimized and controlled through proper nutrition.
America was shocked and saddened last week when Star magazine reported that the eldest daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin split from the father of her 2-month-old son.
I arrived in Congress in 1965, just as President Lyndon Johnson’s transformation of the U.S. government was getting under way. It was an extraordinary time, as LBJ sent up to Capitol Hill his proposals for Medicare, Medicaid, aid to elementary and secondary education, the Voting Rights Act, and a ho
The Monday, March 9, 2009 edition of the Santa Monica Daily Press had two wonderfully juxtaposed environmental pieces from columnist Bill Bauer’s “My Write” and “Earth Talk” (ET) by the editors of E Magazine.
Henry Kissinger said power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. He would know. After all, he dated Candice Bergen and Marlo Thomas and the only thing sexy about him was his job title.
Although Los Angeles has the least amount of parkland within its city limits of any major metropolis in North America, there are dozens of natural areas and scores of parks throughout the greater Los Angeles basin that make it a magical place to live.
