And you thought the Burger King Chicken was crazy? Check out the Crazy Chickens this week at the Mayan / Photo by upslases via flickr. TALK Could you not get into Michael Pollan last night at the Central Library? No worries because American eating habits and food policy are a hot topic this week. Tonight, the Center for Healthy Communities presents “Hungry for Change: The Politics of Food with Marion Nestle.” The nutritionist, author......

Monday No Robby Benson Tuesday Robby Benson & Joely Fisher present Who Stole the Funny? 7pm @ Book Soup Dana Thomas presents Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster 7pm @ Vroman's Edward Schwarzschild signs The Family Diamond: Stories 7pm @ Dutton's Wednesday Amelia Saltsman presents (and cooks from!) The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook 8:30am - 1:30pm, Santa Monica Farmers' Market Robby Benson presents Who Stole the Funny? 7pm @ Vroman's Dinah Berland signs Hours......

Monday Gordy Slack presents The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything 7pm @ Vroman's Tuesday Kimberlee Auerbach presents The Devil, The Lovers and Me: My Life in Tarot 7pm @ Book Soup Gregg Hurwitz presents The Crime Writer 7pm @ Borders, Century City Kirk Douglas presents Let's Face It 7:30pm @ Barnes & Noble, Encino Wednesday Laurie Viera Rigler presents Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict 7pm @ Vroman's Helen Gilbert presents Okay Girls,......

Farmers Market Murderer Manslaughterer Guilty on All Counts, trial, george russell weller, elina shatkin, court, pedal error...

I'm glad to see that the trial of 89-year-old George Russell Weller is finally getting underway. Like a lot of people you might be asking, who's George Weller? Though he hasn't gained the notoriety he so richly deserves, he's the genius who plowed his Buick LeSabre through the Santa Monica Farmers' Market killing 10 people and injuring 60 others in July 2003. I'm not normally a hang-'em high kind of gal, but there's something......

Halloween is both magical and highly ridiculous. It's the only holiday in which we adorn ourselves with bloody accoutrements, illuminate carved fruits and gorge ourselves sick on glucose-ladden hors d'oeuvres. The pumpkin stands tall as an unlikely hero for this holiday. If you haven't made time to buy one yet, there are jack-o-lanterns aplenty at the Lopez pumpkin patch (pictured) on Third and Fairfax. You can also check out the Santa Monica Farmers Market......

The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that an "87-year-old man must stand trial for killing 10 people as he drove his car through the Santa Monica Farmers' Market last year, a judge ruled Wednesday. George Russell Weller's attorneys argued unsuccessfully that the elderly driver accidentally pressed the gas pedal instead of the brake and then went into a "panic" mode that prevented him from being able to stop. But Deputy Dist. Atty. Ann Ambrose......