Don’t miss out! Original, on-the-ground reports from Santa Monica in your inbox daily, Monday-Saturday.
Thank you for registering!
Check your email for a confirmation link.
An account was already registered with this email. Please check your inbox for an authentication link.
The price of your membership is up to you — you decide how much and how often. Our pledge is to keep original, authoritative journalism for Santa Monicans accessible to all, regardless of their means. Your membership helps accomplish that, and powers journalism focused on solutions to improve the city we share.
Prefer to give a one-time contribution? Click here.
Even though they weren’t as long ago as, say, the 1940s, the 1870s or even the 1770s, the fairly-recent 1980s have become a constant, almost obsessive setting for period fiction, beginning around the turn of the millennium or 9/11. Honestly, it’s hard to say which. In the 1980s, we knew who the enemy was. Reagan […]
