Curious City

The end has come. After some 35 years of repairing Santa Monicans' shoes, jackets and anything leather, and telling long...

IT'S ELECTION DAY IN CALIFORNIA! Yes, I know, that was yesterday. My perplexing job in these columns is to make...

I've learned a thing or two, I hope, since high school, about writing for print. One is that sometimes you...

THIS IS NOT ABOUT LUVE No, not my love of LUVE, which abides. And not, until the bottom part of...

I'M HARDLY HEROIC. I tried to make it seem that way last week when I wrote of my “agonizing choice”...

“LOOK UP AT THE STARS and not down at your feet.” If Stephen Hawking says so, I'm good for it....

I HAVE A DREAM Everyone knows those words. It often evokes some emotion or thought, reminiscence or reverie. And you...

Civility. Dialogue. Compromise. Still possible? I truly hope so. I wrote last week that it was getting pretty ugly out...

OH MY GOODNESS… That's way too heavy a topic for lunch on a gorgeous day at the beach, isn't it?...

CHARACTERS  Santa Monica's full of them. If you get out and talk to people, your neighbors, you discover more all...