The Christmas tree is up at the Loews Hotel. The ribbons are out, the holiday songs are being piped onto the Promenade. And Chanukah, Christmas and Kwanzaa are right around
The American Film Market was in town last week. They did their usual takeover of the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel for offices. It was a bit more intimate this
My goal every Domestic Violence Awareness month is to open up the conversation about DV, who perpetrates it, who facilitates it, and who benefits from it. The sad reality is
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and sadly this month is still required to raise awareness. This is the first of my annually updated columns on
This is a reprint from 2006, with slight alterations (removing the words Treo and Blackberry – those were phones a while back), but the sentiment holds as we bring the summer
This time last year I wrote a column suggesting that the city of Santa Monica needed a diversity commission and that I was willing to serve. I had applied to
“You can’t make new old friends.” It’s wise counsel to take time and nurture your friendships. In my 23 years as a divorce and child custody lawyer, the
I’m TikTok famous. Depending on how you define famous. I have a TikTok account that has garnered about 750,000 views, I have just under 39,000 followers and
Back in the early 2000s I was president of the Business Alliance of Los Angeles, it was the first gay and lesbian business networking group in the city. We were
I am extremely confused by what is happening in our state. Our leadership seems to be at odds with itself (not a first for a government I realize, but still
