Hanaa Al-Wardi

Think of Santa Monica and there are a number of things that come to mind: an idyllic, beachside setting; a tech-saturated economy; a bastion of liberal politics.

Two writers have gathered the stories of women who changed history through food. There’s a new documentary on how LA’s agricultural past informs its present.

Two Russia experts discuss how the Washington establishment's virulent anti-Kremlin sentiment affects domestic and foreign policy as well as media narratives.

Edward Goldman talks about two exhibitions that break the rules.

It never occurred to Janey that he would put something in her drink. Never in a million years.

Before former Governor Jerry Brown left office, last year, he put his pen to a couple, new transparency laws.  Both have to do with public access to internal police investigations and…

Almost every residential development in downtown aims to attract pet owners, and doggie businesses outnumber those aimed at children.

This week, you can: learn about the YIMBY movement; consider Barbie as a barometer of social progress; contemplate architectures and infrastructure made exclusively by... and for...

“The Mustang” starts with a good idea and makes it better—an incorrigible prison inmate learns to tame his own wild rages by taming, and training, a wild mustang.