Editor’s Note: The Quackers are three awesome ducks — Rusty, Richard and Sydney — from the canals of Venice who are on a mission to educate the community about the dangers of global warming and the importance of practicing sustainability, all while surfing the most gnarly waves possible.
Boobies, ta tas, hooters, bongos. You know what I’m talking about. We likely have as many euphemisms for the female breasts as there are nouns in the English language.
There’s probably no better place to catch up on the gossip than at a big community gathering. The Santa Monica Festival at Clover Park on Saturday, May 8, was the perfect venue.
Q. I see people who walk or jog in the street. Isn’t that illegal? A. In a residential area it is not illegal to walk or jog in the roadway.
You probably don’t know his name, but Jack Dorsey came up with what might be the most important invention of the 21st century — Twitter. It must be important because the Library of Congress is going to house every “tweet” that’s ever been twittered.
Take a boy whose mother died when he was 12 and whose father abandoned them even before that, have him fixated on his own machismo, his seething anger, and Elvis Presley, and you have a roaring bully and an egocentric Presley-impersonator who claims he has a “spiritual connection” with the iconic si
Dear Rachel, I have a low tolerance for BS. The moment I see a fatal flaw in a date, I dump her. I’m not new to dating; I know what I like and what I don’t.
As I follow the news lately it seems that either the world has gone mad or I have. This week it’s BP Global, a conglomerate highly enriched by our taxpayer-funded war in Iraq (often cited for safety violations).
It dawned on me recently that I’m turning into my mother. I was straightening up the linen closet when I realized, hey, I have a linen closet. As a kid, I avoided the linen closet in my parents’ house like the plague.
Dear New Shrink, I will be graduating from college in a few weeks. I am confident about my career choice but want to be sure that I start off strong. Do you have any suggestions for what I can do to ensure that I have a successful career ahead of me? Thank you, Need to Succeed Dear Succeed, Congratu
Two years ago I voted against giving another dollar to support Santa Monica College. Today our local public schools scramble for money to make ends meet.
A couple of months ago, I asked 600 people to join me in forming the New Energy Caucus within Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights, the tenants advocacy organization turned political party that controls Santa Monica’s City Council, Rent Control Board, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, a
