IF YOU DOUBTED AMERICA’S ADDICTION to cheap goods manufactured overseas, Mattel’s recall of 19 million toys manufactured in China should set you straight. The subcontractors and third parties
By Thomas M. Sipos Santa Monica
Shame on Time-Warner cable! Upon buying Adelphia, they dropped C-SPAN 2 from basic tier and replaced it with... a blank screen!
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By Mike Kirwan Venice
Officials say we should conserve water, yet a number of them have been found to use more water at their homes than others of same-sized
By Brendan O’Brien Santa Monica
So sad, this ecological ageism (“Ficus fiasco continues,” Aug. 14). And of all things, backed by a guy named (Mayor Richard) Bloom.
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By Ingrid O’Brien Santa Monica
$7.6 million dollars for more signage and less foliage? (“Ficus fiasco continues,” Aug. 14) What’s with Santa Monica? You can’t have
By SSSS-SPOTTED: Fabian Lewkowicz
Terry Kamibayashi is the winner of the most recent Mystery Photo contest, being the first to identify that this shot was captured embedded in the
By Charles Bierbauer Guest Commentary
Willie and I must travel different roads, though we were together the other night tooling down US 25 in Georgia between Augusta and Savannah. I
By M. Miles Santa Monica
Please do everything you can to stop these trees from getting cut down. Prune them so they are not so top-heavy. I thought Santa
By John Lord Santa Monica
(Re: “Ficus fiasco continues,” Aug. 14) The complaint of sign blockage on Second and Fourth streets has a familiar ring. It is basically the same
By KENNY MACK is a writer and comedian living in Santa Monica. He
FROM THE BEGINNING, HIP-HOP wasn’t a noun, it was a verb. The basic elements of
Dear Dorie, I have a 2-year-old and an infant and I’m beginning to look at preschools (I know I’m late!). Where do I start and what
IS TAXATION THEFT? TO ANSWER THIS question, we must look at a few underlying principles. Most fundamentally, I think we can all agree that morality applies equally to all human
