Curious City

I finally attended my first City Council meeting, being really concerned with what they were going to do with the...

So you say you love living in Santa Monica, but truth be known, you're just marking time until you can...

I don't expect anyone to be a discerning consumer of the news, or of our Santa Monica newspapers. Nonetheless, a...

"What I did on my summer vacation." Do teachers still assign that? I would think so, at least in the...

What a town, Santa Monica. Simple pleasures, but done very right. I found out from the essential What's Up Westside...

How do you feel about the police? How you answer probably reflects your skin color, bank account, age, education, language...

But this is not L.A. So, I'm walking every street in Santa Monica. Every last one. Also every avenue, boulevard,...

I spied Recreation & Parks Commission Chair Phil Brock's invitation to "a little breakfast salon with me" for last Thursday...

Don't you think I should have a new appellation? Mr. Walker? Street Wise? Asphalt Andrews? Chargin' Charles? Block Buster? I'm...

By the time you read this, our Santa Monica Norms will be fading fast. By Wednesday, midnight at the latest,...