When I joined the city of Santa Monica a little more than two years ago, the city was in the midst of responding to a global pandemic, recovering from a
Often when someone reaches remarkable fame and fortune if and when there's a fall from grace, it can be all the more humiliating. Enter Rudy Giuliani. As Mayor
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.
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
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
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
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
