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Sherlock Holmes, Charles Dickens, and the Santa Monica Police Department: Jones of the Bay by Peter Borresen
If you're looking for a locally-sourced, light and humorous summer (or anytime) read, Peter Borresen's Jones of the Bay might just hit the spot. This episodic detective novel blends comedy, Santa...
What Your Cat Wants for Christmas: Gift Ideas for the Holidays or Any Time of Year
If a cat could write a wish list to Santa, they'd probably put down some requests like world domination or a whole ham. But those items aren't necessarily healthy for your cat in the long run. With...
How Cats Came to Rule Ancient Egypt, And Learned to Shape Shift in the Process
This Spooktober, the Observer has been featuring articles about cats -- first the black cats that are the hallmark of the season, followed by their festive ginger counterparts. This week, we're featur...
Ginger Cats Rule: Why Everyone From Winston Churchill to Leif Erickson and Hogwarts Adored Orange Kitties
Last week, in honor of the beginning of Halloween month, we featured a few fascinating facts about the flashy black felines that have become icons of the holiday. This week, we're dishing out a sweet...
Halloween: Bury Those Cringeworthy Old Standards for a Younger Generation of Costumes More Relevant to our Crazy Times
Usually, September and October are the months when we can look forward to walking around the neighborhood, admiring the front yards of Halloween-loving homeowners who go all out with decorations....
Chinese Wet Markets Sell Cats and Kittens to Labs, And Your Tax Dollars Subsidize It
Sorry folks. Turns out, your tax dollars are being used to torture kittens. The Veterans' Affairs Laboratory divisions in Louisville, Cleveland, and right here in Los Angeles are conducting cruel...
Even Under the Sea, Jobs are Hard to Come By During a Pandemic
Delilah Demilo is a frustrated songwriter, a college dropout, and a venemous blue-ringed octopus. In The Benthophonicks, my debut comic, she sets off on a journey to find herself as an artist, but...
Benthophonicks: Star-Crossed Lovers and Friends, I Still Can Recall
Delilah Demilo is a frustrated songwriter, a college dropout, and a venomous blue-ringed octopus. In The Benthophonicks, my debut comic, she sets off on a journey to find herself as an artist, but...
The Benthophonicks: A Cartoon Starring a Christmas Tree Worm and a Venomous Blue-ringed Octopus
Delilah Demilo is a frustrated songwriter, a college dropout, and a venomous blue-ringed octopus. In The Benthophonicks, my debut comic, she sets off on a journey to find herself as an artist, but...
What would happen if an Octopus took an Uber, and didn't like the Music on the Radio?
Delilah Demilo is a frustrated songwriter, a college dropout, and a venemous blue-ringed octopus. In The Benthophonicks, my debut comic, she sets off on a journey to find herself as an artist, but...
The Benthophonicks: A Cartoon Starring a Christmas Tree Worm and a Venomous Blue-ringed Octopus
Delilah Demilo is a frustrated songwriter, a college dropout, and a venomous blue-ringed octopus. In The Benthophonicks, my debut comic, she sets off on a journey to find herself as an artist, but...
Leafies and Weedies and Rubies, Oh My! – Glimpses Behind the Scenes at Birch Aquarium
Anyone who thinks the world has been combed over and all its mysteries have been figured out should take a plunge into the ocean. Even today, NOAA declares that over eighty percent of our ocean...
Birch Aquarium and Flagship Cruises Team Up for San Diego Whale Watching Adventure
If you're looking for a meaningful and different experience for a morning or afternoon this season, whale watching organized by the Birch Aquarium at Scripps and facilitated by Flagship Cruises and Ev...
Whale 🐳 watching in the Santa Barbara Channel Leads to Strange Encounters
Island Packers Cruises sends cutting-edge, environmentally-conscious vessels bearing experienced crew and curious guests to explore the unique wildlife of the Santa Barbara Channel, its islands and...
Something Tells Me It's All Happening At The San Diego Zoo
Watch a mother langur nurse her tiny baby while battling the half-fatal advances of her teenagers. See a dog lounging with her best friend who happens to be a cheetah. Soar above the treetops in a...
Sign the Wildlife Conservation Society's Demand for "Gorilla-safe" Phones From Manufacturers
We Americans are constantly "upgrading" our Smartphones and similar devices – the new software demands new hardware, the fashions change, the company carefully makes things fall into place so the...
Flamboyant Cuttlefish and the Eternal Mystery of the Pipefish at UCSD's Birch Aquarium
If you haven't seen a flamboyant cuttlefish before, picture this: a plushy purple almond of about three inches long, abutted at one end with a set of ten lacy wire appendages, one or two of which seem...
Enigmatic Illness Destroys Seastars ("Starfish") from the Gulf of Mexico to the Bering Sea
While the people of North America have been squabbling over truck routes and pipelines across the continent, there is a population that really could not care less. Their arms are falling off. And no...
Feed lettuce to a giraffe, watch Penguins, then walk on the beach, all in an afternoon.
In the scintillating Pacific Coast's cradle, where palm trees soar and cactus flowers bloom, the Santa Barbara Zoo rises boldly to smile at the oil tankers encroaching from the horizon. In this...
Stoneware Yogurt Maker: Not For Novices
I consider myself something of a yogurt expert. Present to me any supermarket shelf laden with a rainbow of yogurt cups made by various companies, each one boasting unique subtleties of texture,...
"Last Call at the Oasis"
2/26: Like many in SamoHi's Marine Biology class, taught by Mr. Benjamin Kay; I attended the movie "Last Call at the Oasis" at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica. I learned that las Vegas has made some...
Ford Focus Titanium: Power and Convenience
Life’s never dull when you’re the daughter of a newspaper publisher. New and random curiosities make their way into your home all the time: one day there’s a novel from an up-and-coming author...
