Last night, at the Aero Theatre there was a showing of a compelling and emotionally moving documentary on the remarkable life of Gore Vidal, "The United States of Amnesia.
The men's NCAA basketball tournament, which began in 1939, has evolved into one of the biggest annual sporting events in America. Not coincidentally it's also the
As with many writers, I've had a number of odd jobs. (Keyword: odd.)
For example, in college I parked cars at a mafia-financed restaurant where I occasionally encountered
Apparently while we were all watching bobsledding at the Sochi Olympics the Russian government was ruthlessly planning an invasion of Ukraine. (Newscasters pronounce it YOU-crane as Bush used to pronounce
Mark Twain once observed, "Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it." I'm writing a column about it, which, I suppose, is just
As a student of politics, I'm often interested in the lives of renowned office holders before they entered the political world. For example, Harry Truman was a haberdasher
Santa Monica High School graduate Elaine (Jones) Stephenson (Class of 1951) has almost finished writing "All the Painted Ponies", a charming non-fiction book about growing up in Santa
It's the Friday before the Friday before the Super Bowl. This is already the fifth day of talking heads blabbing endlessly. The most popular subject lately is Richard
Exactly 20 years ago today (actually at 4:31 a.m.), Santa Monica shook, rattled and rolled during the 6.7 Northridge earthquake, hitting parts of our fair city extremely
Next Wednesday, Jan. 15, is Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. He would have been 85. In 1960, Dr. King visited Santa Monica, albeit very briefly. How do I
