This past holiday season was exceptionally joyful for my family. On Dec. 27 my niece, Erin Winter Russak, who was born in Santa Monica as it happens, gave birth to
I rarely agree with right-wing talk show host Glenn Beck but recently it's happened twice! A month ago, Beck said about the Iraq War, "You liberals were
In 1975 I was a Security Guard at the Shores. As I wrote two weeks ago, once I played a practical joke on Hosny, an Egyptian-born chain-smoking, self-appointed "Chief
The following really happened though, unlike "Dragnet," I've changed the names to protect the guilty. It took place at the Shores thirty-eight years ago this week.
One of my favorite movies is the 1982 comedy "Tootsie," which starred Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey, a perfectionist actor who drove everyone crazy, including his agent George
As anyone who's ever endeavored to create art knows it can be thrilling and also frustrating. An example is the story about the late Sir Laurence Olivier, regarded
Last Saturday was the world's first Vegan Oktoberfest held right across the street from me. I gather it was extremely successful. I can attest it was painfully noisy.
Before you flip to the horoscope page, let me reassure you this isn't going to be a sports column. Occasionally readers complain that I focus too much on
