What’s the Point?: Renovation and innovation with Monica Film Center and Loews Hotel
Americans love a renewal. We are a nation built upon the concept of starting over. Whether you're starting over with ...
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What’s the Point?: Jibjab gives employees the old fluff and fold
I hate doing laundry. Which is perhaps why I don't do it. In the past 20 years I have done ...
What’s the Point?: Refugees just want to have a home
I spent the end of the year in Mexico. Experiencing different cultures is a very important part of everyone's development. ...
The past is great, but the future is better
As 2015 winds down, I am aware that Santa Monica has made great progress in becoming a city of the ...
An unexpected Christmas gift
It's Christmas time and for me that means a trip to Mexico where I get to hang poolside, and do ...
Community building, one TEDxSantaMonica event at a time
The saying goes that “nobody plans to fail, they just fail to plan.” Having grown up in California, earthquake country, ...
Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq’ a new telling of old story
What George Santayana wrote in "The Life of Reason" was: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat ...
HIV testing in Santa Monica, not just on World AIDS Day
Today is World Aids Day, and I wanted to reflect on the history of AIDS in America. On Nov. 7, ...
A review of the ArcLight
It's official - we have an ArcLight Cinema - I know because I was there on opening day. Friday I ...
What’s the bike thingy on Pico?
I was just in Naples, Florida, which has a strong seasonal increase in its population thanks to the winter “Snowbirds” ...
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