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...smiled proudly. 'This is your lucky day,' he said.'" Her audience of one yawns and leans against Daisy's leg; Daisy reaches down to scratch the listener's ear. Mojo, a black Labrador retriever, sighs and settles in. It's the weekly meeting of the America Reads program in Santa Monica, Calif., which uses dogs to encourage kids to explore the world of books. After the session, Daisy tells a visitor that she likes reading to dogs because "they just sit and listen. They're calm...
...sessions with Billie Holiday and his memorable stint with the Count Basie Orchestra, Young (known as "Pres," short for "President of the Tenor Saxophone") created some of the most memorable recordings in American music. Douglas Henry Daniels, a professor of History and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has spent more than two decades investigating the legend of Lester Young, and the result is his new biography, "Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester 'Pres' Young" (Beacon Press; 524 pages...
...recent client is the WB network. Other prospective clients include the WWF, Coca Cola, Verizon, Sprint and AT&T. It’s a firm on the rise—Jamie Trowbridge, co-founder and chief operating officer of Moeo, has just opened an east coast branch of the Santa Monica-based company. His headquarters: Winthrop House...
...special, entitled “Kids Under Pressure,” followed the Harvard first-year, along with two of his former classmates at Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, Calif., through the process of applying to Harvard and other top schools...
...Best Western Gateway is one of two public "hot spots" listed for Santa Monica in the directory of Boingo Wireless, which offers Wi-Fi access in locations scattered across the country. I have already talked to a preternaturally cheerful customer-service rep and signed up for Boingo, which has a wireless transmitter in the hotel lobby. So I'm ready for action...