Under the clear blue sky and the crashing of the ocean waves, a large crowd that included both participants and spectators gathered to spend the day in the name of clean water. For the second year in a row, the Los Angeles Waterkeeper hosted the Stand-Up for Clean Water event. The event took place on Saturday near the Annenberg Community...

The year’s 18th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books featured conversations with renowned authors, such as Joyce Carol Oates and Orson Scott Card. American icons like Debbie Reynolds and Carol Burnett took the stage to speak about their memoirs. Children were giddy from having met Lemony Snicket in person.“Where else can you sit and see Carol Burnett and Debbie...

As classes are cut and budgets plunge, enrollment numbers drop along with them. However, at an already crowded community college like Santa Monica College, fewer students has been favorable. The California Community College system is at a 20-year drop in enrollment numbers, according to a document released by the Public Policy Institue of California last month. The drop in enrollment...

About 30 green-clad people bared the frigid winds in Santa Monica Palisades Park, just north of the entrance to the Santa Monica Pier, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the planting of the Children's Tree of Life on Monday. Before the opening ceremony, a moment of silence was held for the victims of the Boston Marathon. Jerry Rubin, peace and...

Santa Monica College student Miranda Haeick received a text from her roommate while she was at work. It read, "Boston's under attack." At first she thought it was a joke, or maybe it was something sports related, but once she realized it was real, she immediately called her mom to make sure her family and her cousin, who was running...

On the rare, eventless Friday night, there is always comfort in knowing that a movie theatre is nearby, shoveling buttery popcorn into red-and-white-striped bags for a like-minded audience there to share the screening experience communally. Years from now, this could be something of the past. Recently, the AMC Criterion 6 on the Third Street Promenade closed its doors to moviegoers....

April 20 is a “holiday” dedicated to celebrating majijuana — the nation's most popular illegal drug. Chronic laziness and cotton mouth plague the youth on a day, colloquially known as “4/20.”Its adherents shortened the name to three syllables because saying "April the twentieth," at a whopping six syllables, requires too much effort apparently. But, even after a day of having...

Bradley Rava was out of the pool by 9 a.m. on Sunday, after finishing what he called a “warm down,” a type of recuperative workout. Rava, along with the rest of the Santa Monica College swim team, had just returned from the Western State Conference swim championships at Los Angeles Valley College. It was a typical Sunday for him in...

Dismembered limbs, blood spraying everywhere and plenty of gore. Throw in a little demonic possession into the mixture, and that is a typical horror movie these days. Being a fan of horror movies, early previews sparked my curiosity of "The Evil Dead," even though I was not very familiar with the franchise. While the original "The Evil Dead," released in...

Santa Monica College's play "The Trials and Tribulation of a Trailer Trash Housewife," directed by Adrianne Harrop, is a strong play that will make you laugh, cry, infuriate you, and even scare you. Set in Texas, the play opens with the Piano Player and Blues Singer, played by SMC students Greg Rutledge and Janiqua Nettles, singing a song that sets...