For this week's column, I was concerned that if I wrote about the record $1.5 billion Powerball Lottery somebody might win. Sure enough, somebody has. Actually, three
I first met fellow Ocean Park resident, Bruno Marcotulli, at the Ocean View tennis courts twenty years ago. I worked for the city checking in players. I remember it because
I, along with at least 1,000 other aspiring comedy writers, unfortunately did NOT get to write for the remarkably popular "Seinfeld" TV series on NBC from 1989
I had planned on writing a hopefully humorous column about how Chanukah is the Rodney Dangerfield of holidays. (Compared to Christmas, it gets no respect.) My title was, “Chanukah in
When I began writing these columns in 2006, "Laughing Matters" seemed an appropriate banner. With what's occurring in the world these days, including ISIS beheadings, the
Having spent her teenage years skateboarding, boogie boarding and surfing in Santa Monica, Margot Pepper went on to become an acclaimed author, poet, journalist and bilingual educator. A summa cum
Not everyone in Santa Monica drives a Porsche and is writing a screenplay. (Actually, maybe the screenplay part is true.) But when a 13-year-old told me he was writing, directing
