So maybe you holed up inside last night with a hot toddy and are thinking, "rain be damned! I'm going out tonight!" Okay, fine. If you make it out earlier, you can celebrate the Japanese New Year, or you can lay low until the evening hours and then get yourself so theatre. Or you could just stay home and keep drinking. We'll never tell... JAPANESE NEW YEAR/SAKE-TO ME There are multiple events going on today......

See that little house squooshed between multi story apartments and condos? That one-story cottage is over 100 years old and just like our newspaper, people from Illinois have somehow gotten ownership of it and want to ruin it. According to this Craigslist post, the home at 2219 Ocean Avenue is the last beach-facing single story cottage left in Santa Monica. Last year the house was deemed a landmark, but the University of Illinois Foundation,......