Curious City

CAROLE, I THOUGHT I KNEW YU. I have known Carole Yu quite a long time, 11 years, but I learned...

I ALWAYS WIND UP HATING IT when I chat with someone who knows more about Santa Monica history and politics...

Martin Mull once said, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” Maybe you remember Mr. Mull, maybe you don't,...

Haggen - dumb as a fox? No, just dumb. And greedy. And not worrying about 8,000 employees in California alone...

ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE MY WORD ON THIS? I'm not an art critic. But I have played one, in...

GOD HAS BEEN TELLING ME TO WALK MORE. Not directly, of course. No, no. that would necessitate changing my political...

SARAH SILVERMAN SUCKS at being Sarah Silverman on the screen in "I Smile Back," but she was great being Sarah...

Here we had a perfectly good villain in the reprehensible Dr. Walter Palmer, the Minneapolis dentist who last July killed...

BERNIE SANDERS GOT NOTHIN' ON RICK COLE. They both trod into the lions' den in the last week, but I...

I've been writing ever since I can remember. From fifth grade on, teachers fooled me into thinking I might have...