Get ready for a movie much more fun to watch than even the most recent X-Men movie, and a fantastic 70’s and 80's playlist for the last month of summer. Guess what, “Guardians of the Galaxy” was actually a pretty decent action comedy. If you didn’t previously know about the comic series from 1969 and the modernized version from 2008,...

When the scaffolding comes off a new building in an important corridor of a city, it is only fair to have a modicum of excitement for the shiny and new. The new Walgreens that opened last Friday at the corner of Pico Blvd. and Lincoln Blvd. falls below even the lowest bar of excitement. The oversized drugstore is a stucco...

On Tuesday night Santa Monica College student, and former Associated Students Director of Activities Matthew Nicholson made his case for new AS elections during the monthly meeting of the SMC Board of Trustees. Amid the usual updates on campus projects and events, Nicholson and supporters took the podium to denounce the AS elections from last May as tainted and corrupt....

As Israel's war on Gaza reached a bloody crescendo on Saturday, over 2,000 demonstrators gathered in front of the Federal Building on Wilshire blvd. to again voice their rage and discontent over the Israeli invasion and U. S. support for it. This was the largest demonstration yet in West Los Angeles against the conflict in which over 1,800 Palestinians in...

"Violated, dishonored, wading in blood, dripping filth--there stands bourgeois society. This is it [in reality]. Not all spic and span and moral, with pretense to culture, philosophy, ethics, order, peace, and the rule of law--but the ravening beast, the witches' sabbath of anarchy, a plague to culture and humanity. Thus it reveals itself in its true, its naked form."- Rosa...

As California suffers from its worst drought in recent history, and residents try to preserve water, a 93 year old water main nestled under Sunset Boulevard decided to rebel. The water main erupted shortly before 3:30 pm on Tuesday, spouting water 30 feet into the sky and releasing 8-10 million gallons of water over the stretch of Sunset Boulevard between...

Israel's war on Gaza has spilled over into the streets of Los Angeles. Like determined resistance fighters, a barrage of faces and voices, dismissive of age or class, have taken to the edges and inroads of Wilshire Blvd. for weeks now to protest the ongoing conflict. In the news, on the web and in the newspaper their eyes have seen...

This summer, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to go to Israel on a free trip sponsored by Birthright, an organization which sends thousands of Jews 18 and older to Israel every year. My 10-day journey started just one week after the three kidnapped Israeli boys were found dead by the hands of terrorist group Hamas, so the...

With "Lucy" opening in theaters this week featuring Scarlett Johansson as the latest, hot blonde packing major heat, French director Luc Besson is returning to a specific kind of storytelling that has defined much of his pop action filmmaking career. In 1990 Besson made his breakthrough with the glossy, darkly funny but sharp thriller "La Femme Nikita" (also known simply...

"What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance, and savagery! Despair has raised them to their feet fascism has given them a banner. Everything that should have been eliminated from the national organism in the form of cultural excrement in the course of the normal development of society has now come gushing out from the throat; capitalist society is puking...