For the second month in a row, you’ve got to make the trip to Ventura, because the Rubicon Theatre has done it again! In February it was Tom Dugan as “Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal," and this month it’s a rambunctious, glorious-voiced cast of 23 singing and dancing in “Hello! My Baby.
In an age when freedom is fast becoming the exception rather than the rule, imprisoning Americans in private prisons run by mega-corporations has turned into a cash cow for big business.
Eric Holder is a busy man. When President Obama’s chief law enforcement officer isn’t tied up selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, refusing to prosecute self-serving cases of voter intimidation or ignoring “wanted dead or alive” bounties placed by black militants on the heads of private citizens, h
A recent article in the New York Times explained that some large companies are moving into the real estate market, buying hundreds of homes during the current downturn.
Santa Monicans, their neighbors and countless other people around the world spent their weekend celebrating Passover and Easter. As they did so, some may think back to two December holidays, Christmas and Chanukah, and the much-loved community displays of the nativity scenes and menorah in Palisades
The City of Angels might soon be joining a growing web of California jurisdictions banning single-use, plastic carry-out bags. The Los Angeles City Council had earlier expressed support for some sort of plastic bag ban, but controversy over whether a fee should be placed on paper bags — or whether t
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District school board has another embarrassment on its hands. This time its the March 20 resignation of Joan Chu Reese, vice chair of the district’s Financial Oversight Committee.
Q: My cousin just moved in with me and it turns out he is on probation. Will that affect me or my job? Is there anything I can do to help him stay out of jail? A: These are great questions and you could find yourself in this particular situation any time you are attempting to help a family member ge
April 29th will mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 L.A. riots. If you’re thinking that’s impossible and where did the time go, that makes two of us.
Apple has gone on a very public tax strike. Months after reporting the second highest quarterly profits in U.S. history, America’s favorite company is refusing to bring home more than $60 billion of offshore funds in protest of the taxes it would have to pay.
Those of us who voted for John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1960 were fortunate enough to experience the exhilaration, the hope, and the joyful anticipation that his election brought to the nation.
About 10,000 years ago Earth’s climate lurched from bitter ice age conditions to the much balmier time in which we live today. We don’t fully understand what caused that great climate shift, but we know it was near the time of that great temperature transition that people started to farm.
