Frost/Nixon **** Frost/Nixon, Ron Howard’s film adaptation of Peter Morgan’s play of the same name, is one of the more entertaining cinematic experiences of the year and for no other reason than Richard Nixon himself. […]
Club Trip is a very small music club, a bar in fact – an unassuming place, distinguished mostly by the collection of vintage rock concert posters on the walls. But the club was distinguished on […]
Carlos Mencia, Greg Fitzsimmons, and some other guests will be performing in a comedy concert to benefit the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s Edison Language Academy this Sunday, January 11. Mencia has been performing comedy […]
ARIES Do the things that set you on fire on the inside. If you are having trouble finding the best way out of a trap, just look straight ahead. Symbolism works its way through the […]
Solomon Singer scored 22 points in Santa Monica High’s 91-71 non-league victory over Hart High. Kunu Shofu and Jerome Hatchett both contributed 18 as the Vikings improved their record to 8-1. After leading 45-43 at […]
There are several outstanding big men in Westside high school basketball this season, and college recruiters have noticed. In last week’s edition of the Mirror, Crossroads’ 6-foot-9 Conrad Liebowitz and 6-8 Solomon Hainna were featured […]
The Lakers’ Christmas Day victory over the Boston Celtics was inspiring. It was just one game in an 82-game schedule, as both teams pointed out, but it did have considerable value. The Lakers proved to […]
In his attempt to improve the defensive intensity of Crossroads’ girls on the basketball court, Coach Malik Abdul-Mansour has had them practice against boys. Before the Crossroads teams begin their formal workouts, the girls sometimes […]
A veteran Venice gallery owner, activist, and promoter, Sponto died suddenly on December 28. The Sponto Gallery is at 7 Dudley in Venice, Ca. And is a historic space. In the late 1950’s and early […]
Christy Wilhelmi doesn’t mind calling herself The Gardenerd. “Nerds beget nerds,” she says about her consuming interest and vocation of gardening. “My background in gardening began about 15 years ago when I became a vegetarian […]
