It was an eerie scene at Aztec Stadium in Mexico City, as teams America and Tecos played in a nearly empty stadium. Normally, the 100,000-seat facility, one of the largest in the world, would have been packed with soccer enthusiasts.
There are 23 citizen boards, commissions and task forces recognized by the city of Santa Monica. Citizen members of these organizations are City Council appointed or approved.
I read the other day that IBM plans on having a computer compete against human contestants on the TV show, “Jeopardy!” The claim is that if the computer beats people, it will be a big leap forward in the field of artificial intelligence.
This past week, Q-line asked: City Manager Lamont Ewell has asked hundreds of city employees to forego performance bonuses to prevent cuts to services and possible layoffs because of a reduction in revenue.
The Daily Press believes strongly in the need for a well-informed and educated community where everyone has access to materials. That is why we support the construction of a new library branch.
Gosh! According to Mr. Elias Serna (“Mencia offensive and Klein evasive,” page 4, April 23) — and he managed to get all of this into one short opinion piece — I’m a “dishonest pedant,” “arrogant,” “empty,” “selfish,” “glaringly dishonest,” “evasive,” “patronizing,” a “know-it-all Anglo,” “shameless
There’s an old expression, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Actually, I can’t remember ever buying anything because of its cover, unless you count Playboy.
A car hit a 26-year-old pregnant woman while she was fleeing from a bear in Colorado Springs last week. Thankfully she and the baby are fine. More importantly though, the news might just mean that I’m not the worst mother ever.
Sometimes siblings communicate with each other in a secret, private language that is unintelligible to the rest of the world. In Conor McPherson’s play, “The Seafarer,” the language is Irish.
Editor’s Note: This article contains graphic but accurate material that may be offensive to some readers. During last Sunday’s Miss USA pageant openly “gay” activist and pageant judge Perez Hilton — the self-styled “Queen of Media” — ambushed Carrie Prejean, the openly Christian Miss California, wit
My friend was going through Craigslist.org and came across cheap boats for sale. Growing up, his parents were avid sailors, but he liked speedboats. Wanting a boat for many years, but lacking the monetary funds, he found one that was a great buy on the Internet.
And they’re off in the Bankruptcy 500! Who gets to the courthouse doors first, General Motors or Chrysler? Who gets granted those first protections from creditors? Which gets to keep the cafeteria trays, corporate jets, 100-ton metal stamping machines and now-collectible assembly line jumpsuits (cou
