By John Noot Venice
The City Council (tonight) will consider an ordinance to regulate surfing classes on the beach and protect the fiefdoms of its currently favored surf instructors. To
By Thomas Cardona
Jack Neworth’s article hit the proverbial nail on the head! Could this be the reason for Barack Obama’s landslide win in Iowa? I am no
By ALEX EPSTEIN is an analyst at the Ayn Rand Institute (www.aynrand.org) in Irvine, Calif.
AS WE WITNESS LARGE NUMBERS OF defaults on subprime loans — loans extended to
By Lindsay Heyman Santa Monica
“Oh my goodness, I’m never going to get to work on time with this traffic.” That’s probably what most citizens who travel on
MEASURE R, THE SANTA MONICA/MALIBU Unified School District’s Feb. 5 ballot proposition which combines and extends measures “Y” and “S” school parcel taxes is only one of a
By Kenn Tarr Notes from the film scoundrel
I HAVE BEEN GETTI NG NAUSEOUS a lot lately and it culminated last night. Watching late night talk shows without writers is
‘The Wire’ is a gritty street drama
By BYJACKNEWORTH CHANNELSURFING
From the first episode of “The Wire,” HB0’s critically acclaimed police drama set in Baltimore, I sensed this was
Tim Burton’s sixth collaboration with Johnny Depp is a debacle. In Depp’s first bad movie since “The Astronaut’s Wife” (1998), blood and meat pies are served up
By KEN TARR is a student at Santa Monica College, an actor and writer and is also taller than 99 percent of the population. He telepathically or at
In case
Once there was a man so appealing he could open any movie at number one with a bullet. He could do family drama or futuristic horror or romantic comedy all
