DOWNTOWN — Christmas morning.
It's several hours of wrapping paper carnage, dogs running off with sticky bows and older members of the family spreading holiday cheer with one more
DOWNTOWN — My quintessential New Year's Eve came when I was 15 years old.
My friends and I gathered in the lower floor of my parents' split-level house
I love dive bars; cheap drinks, surly bartenders and easy women.
But every so often I like to step my game up, put on the polished dress shoes and blazer
Part of the fun during the holiday season is throwing the diet plans out the window and not holding back on all things delicious. After all, January is the time
Move over Dunder Mifflin, there's another office in town … well, in a fictional small Iowa town, anyway.
Bob Finhead's insurance office serves as the heartbeat of
SMO — The notion of hitchhiking goes along with romantic ideals of 1960s road tripping or cautionary tales and horror movies, but one woman is working to give the term a
KEN EDWARDS CENTER — The Arts Commission will once again wrestle Monday night with the fate of "Chain Reaction," a towering sculpture at the Civic Center that recently lost
OCEAN AVE — The Santa Monica Convention & Visitors Bureau awarded its second Thelma Parks Tourism Spirit Award to Mickey Barnes, server at The Lobster restaurant.
Barnes has been an employee
Holiday celebrations are in full swing. There are office parties, Chanukah parties and Christmas celebrations, all culminating for the granddaddy of them all — New Year's Eve. How can
The Wikipedia definition of a bistro — "a small restaurant serving moderately-priced simple meals in a modest setting" — pretty much describes Upper West. It seats about 140 people, and
"Silver Linings Playbook," by far one of the most enjoyable movies I've seen this year, does a wonderful job of creating believable characters and an un-sappy
