Nor the twin sickness of racism and homophobia. Instead, like all secret abuse, only one response can begin to protect others. “Believe what we’re saying,” says Thomas Davis as he stands on Santa Monica Boulevard waiting for his cab. His voice tightens, still grieving for his friends and for all that was taken from him.

“We can shoot it really well, and we’ve got seniors, and only one of them has ever been to an NCAA tournament, and they’re dying to get there,” Burgess said Friday night, in a Santa Monica hotel lobby, the day before BYU beat Pepperdine, 81-64. Five of them are married, two are dads, and Yoeli Childs averages 21 points and eight rebound

Gwyneth Paltrow is publicly fawning over her husband on his birthday. © Broadimage/REX/Shutterstock Brad Falchuk and Gwyneth Paltrow attend Ryan Murphy's Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony on Dec. 4,

The Air Derby was a stage race. Beginning in Santa Monica on August 18, 1929, the 20 entrants flew across Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, before angling in a northeasterly direction over Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Indiana, concluding in Cleveland, Ohio. There were multiple stops along the way, with endless banquets (somehow these ...

He joined his mother in business in 1984 after studying chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. In 1985, he went to the Gemology Institute of America in Santa Monica, married his wife, Sharri, whom he met in high school, and started making jewelry in the evenings, often working until 2 and 3 a.m. "There's a ...

Last year, there was an outbreak of typhus in the squalor near skid row. In other places, including San Diego, homeless residents have seen cases of hepatitis A, and Klausner said homeless people in Santa Monica recently had a few cases of trench fever, which is transmitted by body lice. “We are a confined community,” said Edward Linwood ...

I took a photo and laughed until it hit me — this was no laughing matter. Not long after, I visited a private school in Santa Monica where posters, done in a child’s hand, said “Join the Young Proletariat Club — Support the Revolution!” We now live in a realm of buzzwords, hashtags, slogans that can seduce us with the neatness of ...

Season 2 of the series premiered Feb. 13. Her cottage-style house in Santa Monica and its next-door neighbor share the lush, shady garden that stretches across both properties. The side-by-side homes are owned by a pair of acting coaches with whom Ruiz has lived for the last five years. “They have become my family in Los Angeles,” said Ruiz ...

The game will operate as a live-service title, meaning players can expect new heroes and maps on a regular basis. Not only that, but I spent a day on the campus of Riot Games in Santa Monica, Calif., learning the ins and outs of the title by not only speaking to the team, but going hands on with it. For more on Riot Games' promising title ...

Here is a sampling of charities in the San Fernando Valley area that need your support through donations or volunteer work. American Red Cross blood donations: Blood, especially type O, and platelet donations needed.