By CHARLES ANDREWS
I USED TO BE FAIRLY NORMAL
Then I started writing this column, seven years ago.
Now I never know what to think, or what anyone else in
By CHARLES ANDREWS
KEEP HOPE ALIVE
I often — too often, these days — come back for strength to that signature quote from Rev. Jesse Jackson, from decades ago, and he still
By CHARLES ANDREWS
THE OTHER SHOE
Has finally dropped. Is it a game changer? Or just an adjustment, a gnat to be flicked away by our entrenched corruption cabal here,
By CHARLES ANDREWS
OF COURSE I DIDN’T GO
To the “City Council Retreat” last weekend.
It’s not that I’m shirking civic responsibility. And I don’t judge
By CHARLES ANDREWS
HAPPY DANG NEW YEAR!
No, seriously. Despite my cynicism over over-the-top New Year’s Eve celebrations expressed in my last NOTEWORTHY column, I am an eternal optimist
By CHARLES ANDREWS
I LOVE MOROCCO -- SO WHAT?
CURIOUS CITY has for its last six years out of seven been focused mainly on things Santa Monica. So… I take
By CHARLES ANDREWS
“IT’S A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY”
-- the young American (Canadian?) traveller observed “knowingly” to me as we disembarked from our cab at close to 7 a.
By CHARLES ANDREWS
DISAPPOINTED BUT NOT SURPRISED
That so few showed up at City Hall last week, to protest our City government’s enthusiasm to throw tons more good money