A funny thing happened on the way to the election. People started to get real. Last week, I attended an informal gathering of neighborhood group leaders and grass-roots community activists who get together from time to time to discuss politics.
Q: I noticed the school buses have a mechanical stop sign and flashing lights that extend outward when drivers are dropping off or picking up children.
I thought it was a joke when I heard that an airplane seat manufacturer was trying to sell airlines seats that are more uncomfortable than the ones we’re used to.
After over 1 million miles of prototype testing, the first new road car from McLaren since 1993 is ready for you. And the first place you can buy one, at about $250,000 a pop, is in mid-2011 at the Auto Gallery store on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.
City Hall wants those who plan to attend the nocturnal art event Glow this Saturday to leave their cars at home and take public transit, bike or walk to Downtown since several streets will be closed and the demand for parking in structures around the Third Street Promenade will most likely be high.
They say that bad news sells newspapers. The “they” in this case is the Pew Research Center, a “nonpartisan fact tank that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
Earlier this month, Santa Monica police officers were called upon to apprehend a suspect who was acting irrationally in the Pico Neighborhood. It turns out that the young man, who had disrupted a class at Santa Monica College and stole and apple from a nearby cafe, was under the influence of PCP, an
Dear New Shrink, I have been married for five years to a kind and honest man. While I know he loves me a lot, he is emotionally unavailable. I am his opposite; I am open, passionate and outgoing.
Sometimes a book of short stories is a welcome diversion from the usual industrial-strength novels. Just as an evening of short one-acts can provide a satisfying evening at the theater.
When those behind Tucson’s successful Raza/ethnic studies program visit Santa Monica this Friday at the Pico Youth & Family Center as part of a Southern California tour, the legacy of Chicano studies in Santa Monica will come more clearly into the light.
Twenty-four years ago this month, the American TV landscape was changed forever when “The Cosby Show” debuted on NBC. Like most sitcoms, it was a story about a couch and the people who sit on it; but this couch was in a Brooklyn Heights brownstone owned by a black obstetrician married to a black att
So, this week, inspired by Lady Gaga, I plan to visit Grizzly National Park wearing a suit made of raw meat. If you’ll remember the suit Ms. Gaga wore to the MTV Music Video Awards, it was made of raw meat.
