I had lunch last week with a friend at The Lazy Daisy cafe. He’d been through the wringer over a child custody case and shared with me his experiences with the meat grinder of family court in the years before he knew me.
The long overdue update to Santa Monica’s master plan, the Land Use and Circulation Element, is nearing completion and undergoing public review prior to final City Council comments, revisions and approval.
Q: I was awakened by loud construction at six in the morning. Will the police handle this issue? Are there any restrictions as to when construction can be completed? A: Yes, the police will respond to a loud construction call and enforce city ordinances as necessary.
This past week, Q-line asked: There is a movement afoot to expand Santa Monica’s already strict smoking laws. The new rules would restrict smoking on patios and balconies of multi-unit residences.
Q. Dear Rachel, In the past month, I got married and moved in with my husband. The other day, I was organizing our closet when I found his collection of photo albums.
This past weekend, I was lounging at the pool and happened to notice a pretty woman, a recent divorcee. She was babysitting her 6-year-old son who’s an excellent swimmer but she didn’t seem to be watching him.
“Dear God,” I prayed silently on a 5:33 p.m. express train from Grand Central Terminal the other day as I glanced out the window and saw the name of an unfamiliar stop.
Dear New Shrink, I am a recent college graduate and have come to realize that most positions require experience. Seeing this in the job description has stopped me from applying to several positions that I feel I am qualified for.
The debate surrounding the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s Measure A is more important than the vote. Instead of arguing back and forth about whether or not the emergency parcel tax is equitable or financially feasible for some during rough financial times, we should be asking these si
When I was a kid, my father used to drive us from Boston to a family house in Darlington, S.C. during school vacations. He thought the relaxed pace and small-town charm was a nice change from life in the big city where we lived, so my younger sister and I would spend a couple of weeks every year rid
I’ve been covering the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for over a month. And recently, during a national television interview, I said “BP’s gulf oil spill is a global ecological disaster.
It’s that weekend again. The one where we barbecue lots of burgers, work on our tans, enjoy the bounty that Wal-Mart has to offer and bask in the glow of the coming summer months.