An innocent 16-year old girl seduces the boy she has loved all her life on the night before he is to leave for the war. In the case of Jim Leonard’s disturbing new play “Battle Hymn,” the war happens to be the Civil War and the girl is named Martha.
This past week, Q-Line asked: The passing of City Councilman Herb Katz recently forced his colleagues on the dais to search for a replacement. It will be difficult to replace the esteemed Katz, who dedicated much of his life to civil service.
A question that many of us would love to have answered is, whatever happened to those original billions in Wall Street bailout money? Would we be wrong to say that some of that went down the toilet? It’s hard to remember since there have been so many plans, but wasn’t the money from Bailout No.
Nearly 200 years after the British Army captured Washington, our nation’s capitol endured a different onslaught by an army twice as large as the U.S. and Russian armies combined.
In case you’ve been on another planet, Sunday is the Super Bowl. I think this is number 43 (XLIII) but don’t quote me as I’m not great with Roman numerals.
The (first) day President Obama took the oath of office, I finally felt a change in the tide. Not since the Lincoln Bedroom was underwritten by Motel 6 during the Clinton administration has the country had White House denizens with whom the average American family could enjoy some sort of real conne
The Daily Press would like to apologize to Garfield and Lila. We’re sorry for bumping you out of the paper and we’d like to make it up to you and, more importantly, our readers by bringing you back.
Jan. 16, 1 p.m. I’m a Santa Monica Police Department volunteer on patrol with Homeless Liaison Program (HLP) team Officer Jacob Holloway on a stepped up neighborhood resource, crime-fighting operation in Downtown.
If you’re just getting your feet wet in the world of investing, stocks may seem to be the best way to get started. While financial advisors will likely suggest that a certain portion of your portfolio contain stocks, it is important to realize that there are two primary styles of stock investing — v
Understanding current financing requirements will save anyone interested in rehabbing real estate foreclosures a great deal of heartache down the road.
My lovely new bride and I took a tour in Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino” over the MLK birthday weekend. I had only heard snippets of Eastwood’s cantankerously anachronistic portrayal of Walt Kowalski, an aging, widowed, Korean War hero, hunkered down in his “Archie Bunker” mentality with the ghost of
I’m not the type to say, “I told you so.” Besides, I don’t really have to because events eventually end up doing it for me. If you’ve been reading this column, you know by now that I called the Obama presidency in April of 2007 — and was the first writer in America to do so.
