My life changed 20 years ago, when my friend and I were floating down the Rogue River in Oregon. Suddenly the motor fell off the boat, which tipped over. I
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes National Night Out, Festival of Chariots, Dine LA Restaurant Week, and much more!
Community Picnic
Plenty of Angelenos these days complain about what they see as the city’s lack of leadership, a critique that often is directed at the city’s mayor and council.
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes the return of Dine LA Restaurant Week, Spazmatics concert, Esters Wine Shop & Oyster Bar
Santa Monica has numerous problems that are abundantly obvious to anyone who cares to look and City leaders deserve all the criticism they get for their many failings. However, the
Blocked for now by a federal court order from sending warrantless roving immigration patrols through Los Angeles and six other Southern California counties, U.S. agents on Thursday moved their
Every summer, a few headlines remind us about Mental Health Awareness Month. And then, just as quickly, we move on.
But the truth doesn’t go away. For people whose
When Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders were drafting a more-or-less final 2025-26 state budget last month, they were closing what they described as a $12 billion deficit, a number
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes State of the City, Santa Monica Music Festival,Blue Plate Oysterette Community Dinner Series, &
More than 150 people signed up to speak at the City Council meeting last week. And many more people gathered in the chambers as well as at competing rallies outside
California has finally made real progress on one of its most stubborn problems: the housing crisis. After decades of paralysis, the state has begun to unwind the bureaucratic thicket that
