Musician/Educator Aaron Nigel Smith Creates Children's Music for 'Everyone'
Ever stroll around the village, just south of Sunset Boulevard, on a sunny weekday afternoon, and hear the notes of funk music wafting through the air like a bright red balloon?
You follow the sound, like Yogi Bear chasing the scent of a freshly baked apple pie cooling on a window sill, and it leads you down Swarthmore to La Cruz, where a live band of young musicians is jamming outside Seven Arr...more
New Blog Offers A Game-A-Day for Kids
The pleasures of playing at home, making up games, and creating challenging puzzles seem to be in the air lately. Families are drifting away from passive entertainment toward more engaging activities for children. And for adults, too. Welcome to todayisfun.com, a blog that is home to bringing simplicity back into the home.
Pacific Palisades resident Steve Wein and his editing colleague Paul Plew...more
'When I Married My Mother' Author at Village Books
NEWS: When author Jo Maeder declares that her mother had cared for her mother, and her grandmother had in turn cared for hers, but 'I was Ms. Independent from a new generation,' the reader knows right away what will be Maeder's certain job.
In her memoir, 'When I Married My Mother,' Maeder relates a familiar circumstance for many adult children who find themselves in the situation of tak...more
Palisades Symphony Plays Sunday
NEWS: Violinist Jim Stark will be the soloist and Joel Lish will conduct the Palisades Symphony Strings in a free concert on Sunday, February 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Palisades High School's Mercer Hall.
The program will include the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major and the Violin Concerto in E Major, both by Johann Sebastian Bach; the Serenade for Strings by Elgar; and the Adagietto from S...more
Brentwood Art Center Turns 40
Five years after Ed and Linda Buttwinick sold the Brentwood Art Center to their bookkeeper Sarkis Melkonian, the Santa Monica school remains vibrant and thriving as it celebrates its 40th anniversary. The founders' vision continues to permeate the Center's seven studios, located in a 6,700-sq.-ft. space on the corner of 26th Street and Montana Avenue.
When the Buttwinicks sold, they were asked h...more
Local Author Offers Readers Tips on Supporting Our Troops
Perhaps you've thought about it. Perhaps you've been moved by the movie 'The Hurt Locker,' set in the Iraq War. As American soldiers put their lives on the line, perhaps you've asked yourself: what can I do to help? One local man has devised a clean, reader-friendly guide spelling out ideas on how to contribute''big or small''to supporting our troops in the war.
Jim Hake is the aut...more
