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Tom Taplin loved Santa Monica. It’s where he lived with his wife, spent time with friends and ran his filmmaking business. The massive earthquake that rocked Nepal over the weekend kept him from returning home. A 61-year-old Denver native who had lived in the beachside city since the 1980s, Taplin was among those killed in […]
