SMC Loses First Two Games, But Optimism Remains:
The head coach is dismissed; the team loses its first game, and then is routed in its second game. But optimism remains for the football season at Santa Monica College. ’We have a lot of […]
Despite Gallant Comeback, St. Monica Loses:
St. Monica fell behind Mary Star, 26-0, in its opening football game of the season Friday night. Later, the Mariners were behind, 46-20. However, the game was tied at 46 with 1:53 to play. Only […]
Samohi Football Player Williams Seriously Injured:
Cody Williams, a junior on the Santa Monica High football team, suffered a serious injury in the fourth quarter of the Vikings’ opening game 33-19 loss to Leuzinger High Friday night at Corsair Field. Following […]
Flu-Ridden Samohi Loses Opener To Leuzinger:
The day before Santa Monica High was scheduled to open its football season against Leuzinger High of Lawndale, 20 Viking players came down with the flu. Most of them played, but it probably wasn’t a […]
J. Lloyd Jacobs: January 21, 1921 – September 12, 2009:
J. Lloyd Jacobs Sr.,88, a long-time business owner in Santa Monica and Venice, was one of nine children born to Eva and Michael Jacobs in Cleveland, Ohio. Lloyd, and Lucy (deceased 2004), his wife of […]
Santa Monica Sky Lights Up for Pier’s Historic Birthday:
Thousands of people flocked to the Santa Monica Pier Wednesday night to say happy birthday to an old friend. As the Pier turned 100 on 9/9/09, Cirque du Soleil performers in colorful costumes greeted families, […]
Farmers’ Market Report:
Who: Barbara Spencer of Windrose Farm. Barbara was a studio cellist and wanted to farm as a retirement hobby. She started with a few herbs and apple trees. Later, she and her husband Bill, a […]
Media: TV for Michael:
When I first started working for the Mirror I was their sports photographer. With a newborn baby at home, I found myself without any means to support her. The newspaper was just starting out and […]
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS/ ONGOING EVENTS:
Academic Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (AFICE) is looking for individuals to work as Community Representatives, who will find host families for international students and will work with them and their families. Call Anne Ring, […]
Theater Review: Culture Clash Tackles Aristophanes in Uproarious ‘Peace’:
When Greek playwright Aristophanes wrote Peace in 421 B.C., a truce in the Peloponnesian War had just been declared, and the twenty-something satirist seized the opportunity to pen an anti-war ode celebrating the silencing of […]
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