Santa Monica Public Library’s annual community reading program, Santa Monica Reads, continues for the seventeenth year in 2019. Popular with local residents and visitors, the program invites everyone to
For a Left-leaning city, a glaring omission in Santa Monica’s past has been celebrating an iconic event such as Pride. This weekend, that changes, with Pride arriving at one
A local resident is using opera as a vessel to transplant long-forgotten, lesser-known works into today’s world. Her hope? That she can preserve these works and juxtapose them against
Netflix blinked first and now other major Hollywood studios say they may reevaluate filming in Georgia if the state's abortion law goes into effect. The state is known
The kids were just too good.
The finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee turned into a slog on Thursday, with bee organizers unable to scour Webster's Unabridged
The City of Santa Monica is kicking-off its first Pride Month on June 1, nearly 50 years after the 1969 Stonewall riots that sparked the LGBTQ movement.
Downtown Santa Monica,
A local nonprofit is having a block party and you’re invited.
The 18th Street Arts Center is hosting its 4th Annual Pico Block Party this weekend, Saturday, June 1.
There’s no doubt that Dianne Wiest gives an amazing performance in Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days,” at the Mark Taper Forum. She told an LA Times reporter that she
“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek says his doctors say he’s in “near remission” of advanced pancreatic cancer and his response to the treatment is “kind of mind-boggling.”
The 78-year-old TV
In Paris, the Louvre Museum closed for a day this week because workers said the crowds were too big to handle. In the Himalayas, climbers at Mount Everest are concerned
SHOOTING IN THE DARK
I imagine most columnists feel that way sometimes. Who’s reading? Is anybody reading?! Are the people who can make a difference right away reading? Am
