Editor’s note: Longtime Santa Monican Charles Andrews is traveling across Europe in a camper van for one year, with his family. I’m no expert on Europe even though I’m midway through my second yearlong trip here, nor on Spain even though our family unexpectedly stayed a little more than two months t
CITY HALL — Tucked away in a cramped corner office at City Hall is a collection of flatscreen TVs that provide Andrew Maximous with live digital-video feeds of some of Santa Monica’s busiest intersections.
XRDS — Crossroads’ boys’ basketball team opened the season with “a good old fashioned butt whooping” by Brentwood Tuesday, to hear Head Coach Kevin Jackson tell it.
A few mornings ago I woke up to my clock radio announcing that our national nightmare was over. At long last, the issue that threatened our way of life had finally ended.
DOWNTOWN — Lakers all-NBA guard Kobe Bryant and his wife Vanessa are teaming up with Santa Monica-based Step Up on Second to battle homelessness and improve the lives of youths and families in need.
For those who may not have heard, according to some fundamentalist Christians, the world will be coming to an end tomorrow. I apologize for such late notice.
BARNUM HALL — On Easter Sunday, a man in a bunny costume dropped from the sky onto a field of 25,000 brightly colored Easter eggs, much to the delight of hundreds of children on the McKinley Elementary School campus.
Readers often ask where I get the ideas for my columns. (Some have asked why I bother, but that’s another issue.) Today’s offering has a rather circuitous evolution.
Some time after 3 a.m. on Friday, commoner Kate Middleton walked into London’s famed Westminster Abbey and left Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, Princess of Wales, married to Prince William of Wales.
Last week I poked fun at Donald Trump’s possible run for president in 2012. The Donald says he’s going to make his official announcement on “The Apprentice.
The old saying is that when opportunity knocks, you’re supposed to answer the door. But it’s with mixed emotions that, after living in Santa Monica for almost 36 years, and having written 300 of these columns, this will be my last “Laughing Matters.
In Washington D.C. last week, CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) held its annual convention attended by 11,000 people, most of whom were Tea Party members though thankfully not in costume.
