Curious City

THE LAST I'LL NEED TO WRITE ABOUT ALEX (I HOPE) Dang! I wanted to scoot right into Alex's Shoe Repair...

WEIGHING IN: GREEN, GREEN ANYWHERE? I haven't quite gotten through the entire final report online of the Santa Monica Civic...

ARE WE ABOUT TO LOSE FACE ON MAIN STREET? It's a face you don't forget. “I'm ugly, and now I'm...

ROB SCHWENKER AND I ARE BRAVE MEN. I know this about myself, from the smiling greeting I got from one...

I HATE LISTS.  A reluctant confession. Not proud of it. Smart, accomplished, organized people use lists. “How can you get...

TOMORROW IS CHRISTMAS EVE. I really should write something for the season, shouldn't I? Something reflective and reverent, or at...

I LOVE SEX, REALLY I DO.  It's in my Top 3 of Life. It's my path to enlightenment. All you...

Seen any good movies lately? Yes! You'd better catch “Janis” now because it may be gone two days after you...

I just can’t get the hang of this columnist thing. Not so much the writing part (though some would say, Oh...

I   hope   you’re   in   the   “Oh   boy, Thanksgiving!” camp, like me, but we all know at least one someone who...