Curious City

Happy Independence Day! OK, two days ago. That's the problem with a weekly column. Our family had a very Santa...

Last week I noted the arrest of two credentialed news photographers and a professor at Santa Monica College the day...

I was thinking the other day about the Santa Monica College students and employees who desperately barricaded themselves in a...

I've lived here in Santa Monica for 27 years, but there are a lot of things about this great town...

What do you like best about living in Santa Monica? No one thing jumps right to the fore for me....

A few weeks ago it was Bike It! Walk It! But Don't Drive It! Day or Week or something like...

If you don't have any young kids, you better go out and borrow a couple for Sunday. If they're younger...

Where do you take your everyday shoes and boots and your special, expensive ones to be repaired, polished, resoled and...

My name is Charles … and I'm a music critic. There, I said it. I don't very often. Not because...

This past week I did one of the most all-American things you can do, in the heart of Santa Monica....