Reflections & Observations: Flawed Fortress on a Hill
The draft of the new Santa Monica Civic Center Specific Plan is now making the rounds of the relevant City boards and commissions for comment and recommendations...

P.S. What About the Children?
The Santa Monica City Council frequently trumpets its devotion to the community’s children. And yet…

Letters To The Editor

Bay City Beat: Your Delicious Prom McNade
Here’s a fun puzzle for you, your family and friends, or maybe City Council: If every brand of clothing and sports wear has its own branding store on the Promenade...

The Last Word: EISNER’S 2001 DISNEY PAYCHECK DROPS FROM $12 TO 1 MILLION

COMMENTARY: The Bush-Enron Connection
You’ll have to look long and extremely hard to come up with an example of corporate treachery in the United States that’s as horrible as the Enron debacle...

In Her Opinion: The Santa Monica Family YMCA
At the ceremony commemorating the grand opening of the remodeled and expanded Santa Monica Family YMCA I really felt as though I was in a small town...