The folks from Macerich Co. went before the Planning Commission recently to ask for permission to sell alcohol into the early morning hours to people eating or drinking in the outdoor dining areas of restaurants on the third floor of Santa Monica Place.
As lovers of live music who spent many nights as teenagers in packed legion halls subjecting our delicate ear drums to the rat-tat-tat or the boom-bap, we were excited by the new partnership between City Hall and Nederlander Concerts, a well-respected concert producer that will take over operations
I intended to write about the famous BNP Parabis Open tennis tournament taking place in picturesque Indian Wells through March 20. Besides the Grand Slams, BNP Parabis was last year’s most widely attended tournament (340,000 visitors), and for any tennis fan in Southern California it is a must.
“In Mother Words” is a series of 20 vignettes about motherhood written by 14 authors and performed by three superb actresses and one excellent actor. The sketches are funny, poignant, spirited, instructive, often predictable, and sometimes overly gooey.
While skirmishes in Libya and uncertainty in the Middle East are nice cover for outrageous gasoline prices, the fact is the same old suspects are making a killing from sky-high gas prices approaching $4 per gallon in California: big oil companies and greedy speculators.
My husband isn’t a stereotypical guy’s guy. Unlike some men, Rick doesn’t personally change the oil in our car. In fact, he never personally notices when anything’s even wrong with the car (although I suspect if black smoke were pouring out from under the hood or if the car itself disappeared, it mi
Grabbing their pom-poms, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, has run out in front — again — cheerleading for a tax increase. Jerry Brown’s plan for an increase in the sales, income and car tax is A-OK with them, just as it was two years ago when, with the support of Gov.
I’m a morning person, one of the people who can get up at 4:30 a.m. regularly, without an alarm clock, and by 4:35 a.m. be ready to hold a conversation, plan a ski trip or make breakfast for 20.
Depending on your view of the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and America’s role in them, Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, the 23-year-old Army soldier who is accused of “aiding the enemy” by leaking classified military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy website, Wikileaks, is either a courag
For an entity that must rely on the good will of the public, parents and students, it seems that the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District is always shooting itself in the foot.
Q: I have lived in Santa Monica for years and have always wondered why our police officers wear the uniforms that they do? We are a coastal city, why don’t all the officers just wear shorts in the summer and regular cop uniforms in the winter? A: There are a variety of police uniforms and the styles
