October 16 Blowin Smoke @ Harvelle’s Joey Everett, Thieves @ Rusty’s Surf Ranch Kelly Joe Phelps @ McCabe’s Guitar Shop October 17 Chris Cain @ Harvelle’s Jerry Riopelle @ McCabe’s Guitar Shop Road to Bremen, […]

Last Chance Eric Johnson, Recent Works, through October 17, William Turner Gallery, Bergamot Station, 310.453.0909. The Little Dog Laughed, by Douglas Carter Beane, through October 17, 8pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2pm Sundays, $15-$18, Morgan Wixson Theatre, 2627 […]

Cirque du Soleil, KOOZA, October 16, limited engagement 8pm Tuesdays-Thursdays, 4 and 8pm Saturdays, 1 and 5pm Sundays, $54-$135, Santa Monica Pier, 866.6.CIRQUE. The Circus has come to town in the form of this legendary […]

Dear EarthTalk: I recently saw a reference to “Enertia houses” that require little in the way of external sources for heating or cooling. Do you have any information on this housing design? Enertia is a […]

Rotary Club of Santa Monica Invites Applications for Community and Youth Grants The Rotary Club of Santa Monica is currently accepting applications for its Community and Youth Grants program from non-profit organizations that serve the […]

For most of the last 20 years, anti-illegal immigration activists have steadfastly maintained that many of the undocumented come to America mostly for public benefits ranging from schools to welfare to the automatic citizenship bestowed […]

Growing up in the Midwest in the 60’s and 70’s I was unavoidably taken with any event of weirdness and edgy behavior in California, especially as those reports were delivered by Zeitgeist observer Johnny Carson. […]

Dear Editor, Usually I think of the SM Mirror as a more reliably progressive alternative to what I’ll call the Santa Monica Daily Argument, so I was a bit taken aback to see Breen’s cartoon […]

I ran into a fellow Santa Monican, a long time friend, at the YMCA recently and he was livid. Turns out his younger child can’t get the classes she needs for her sophomore year at […]