A big hit in1966 by the Spencer Davis Group. You must have come across it sometime. The original Brit hit blows away any of the many cover versions that followed.
SMDP's weekly guide to food and entertainment goings-on around town has where to eat, drink and party in and around Santa Monica on New Year’s Eve, including
There I was, watching The Grinch Who Stole Christmas for the 100,000th time. Sitting with my daughter, watching her face light up, looking remarkably like Cindy Lou Who, I
It wasn’t the most important political story in California this year, but Gov. Gavin Newsom’s headlong plunge into national — and international — politics was the most interesting.
Newsom insists
I was standing in the grocery check-out line behind a 20-something girl who had put a bag of organic cat kibble on the counter, waiting for her turn to pay.
In the 19th century, California began experimenting with regulating the prices of vital services and commodities. Nearly 150 years later, Californians still don’t know if it’s working as
The December 2023 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said that 653,100 people experienced homelessness — across the nation — on a single
Music gift suggestions
I originally intended to identify some super duper box sets of music, LPs/CDs/DVDs/Blue Ray, hi-definition, cool presentations like a fake phonograph or Ray Charles’
Whac-A-Mole is an amusement arcade game, invented in Japan nearly a half-century ago, whose players try to hit moles as they pop up from their holes, but if they hit
There’ll be an Indiana Jones moment at City Council tonight (December 19th), the equivalent of the dramatic scene in the George Lucas movie where Indie realizes that “X” really
Am I reading this right? (I might not be.) Does Item 11A on the City Council meeting agenda fail to include a phase that compels Sasaki Consultants, Inc. to get
Over the next 10 months, billions of dollars in political machinery will serve up apocalyptic narratives about where our country is headed. Candidates will speak in partisan absolutes, framing the
