Laughing Matters

Former Santa Monica resident Sam Querrey celebrates winning shot. You might want to turn off the TV and or the...

In Teddy Roosevelt’s day, “bully” was synonymous with “good for you.” Today, it’s synonymous with “pathetic loser.” (As Lenny Bruce...

Over the years I’ve written about dozens of “colorful” local characters. Perhaps none was more “eccentric” than Lawrence Kates, the...

The son of a milkman, Robert Redford grew up in the 1950s in Santa Monica in the shadow of the...

Over his distinguished six-decade-plus career, Arnold Schulman, 86, a Broadway playwright and two time Oscar-nominated screenwriter, has studied with or...

Now that Mitt Romney is the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, I must confess that something about him really worries me....

For those too young to have seen it, or those too old to quite remember, Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro)...

Recently, the New York Times, the Washington Post and even CBS news featured stories about our fair city. Feeling rather...

April 29th will mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 L.A. riots. If you’re thinking that’s impossible and where did...

On the drizzling night of Feb. 26, in Sanford, Fla., Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American, was wearing a hoodie while...