Nhi Ho of Santa Monica High School was selected to represent California as a delegate to the 2012 National Youth Science Camp. Ho, who plans to attend Harvard University and major in biomedical engineering, will join 119 other top high school graduates representing the United States as well as stude
COLORADO AVE — It’s a hot, sunny day in Santa Monica and you’re standing on your balcony. Your next door neighbor, a young-looking blonde, is sunbathing on her balcony.
COLORADO AVE — Two residents of Village Trailer Park secured a big win last week when a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled that they could not be moved from their homes, despite the owner’s desire to close the park.
When I was a UCLA undergrad studying literature in the 1970s, the feminist movement was in full flower across the cultural spectrum. Women protested at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art about the lack of female artists in their collections.
SMC ¬ó A program meant to smooth the transition from community college to the state university system is rolling out slowly in the face of resistance and variations in transfer requirements, according to state officials.
CITYWIDE — Some communities suffer from a lack of information. Santa Monica may have too much. Two community organizations and one outside lobbying group each released statistics in recent months attempting to put hard numbers to one of the Westside’s most controversial questions: How many people
PLAYA DEL REY — When Marty Verdugo retired from teaching and coaching this year it wasn’t to take it easy. The former Santa Monica High School girls’ basketball coach decided to give up the life of chasing championships and do something a little different.
Dear Gov. Brown, California taxpayers are tired of being misled and desperately want to hear the truth about the state budget. In 2010, voters gave you and the legislative majority control of the process by passing Proposition 25 because they thought this would ¬ó at long last ¬ó ensure the delivery
WOODLAND HILLS — David Aranzamendez Legaspi III, an eleemosynary muralist who left his mark all over the campuses of Santa Monica’s schools and for the past decade placed paint brushes in the hands of students and parents, was found dead in Woodland Hills, Calif.
It was a meeting of the butts that need no padding and the mile-long fake eyelashes for which academics, scholars and philosophers, plastic surgeons and aestheticians have been waiting for days, if not minutes, to witness: Kim Kardashian vs.
SANTA ANA, Calif. ¬ó Three people in Southern California have been charged with running a prostitution ring that recruited women from Latvia and Russia to work in the sex trade in Los Angeles and Orange County, federal authorities said Tuesday.
WILSHIRE BLVD — While it doesn’t sound as menacing as “Carmageddon,” the extended closure this Friday of Wilshire Boulevard on- and off-ramps along Interstate 405 — dubbed “Ramp Jam” — promises to create serious delays for commuters and could impact residential streets near the major thoroug
