Free Blood and DJ Spun Friday, November 16, 6-9 p.m., Free Getty Center Museum Courtyard, 1200 Getty Center Drive, LA, 310.440.7300 Like contemporaries the Rapture, Brooklyn-based Free Blood plays the sort of funky punk that […]

Enchanted is the kind of film you wish you’d directed. It starts off so pitch perfect and funny but goes so wildly off track that it ultimately amounts to nothing more than an honorable attempt. […]

When Shoplifting Is Robbery Thursday, November 8 at 7:15 p.m. – Whole Foods Market at 2200 Wilshire Boulevard – A woman walks into the store. She puts a pair of gloves and a tube of […]

Despite a decline in real estate prices throughout the county and the country, home values on the Westside remain strong, according to real estate experts who spoke at the Westside Economic Collaborative’s 6th Annual Westside […]

A few years ago I wrote a column and received a few affirmatives on last lines of poems and the impact they can have. So what about first lines? What are their primary functions, secondary […]

A recent TV commercial shows a father sitting on the floor of his living room surrounded by the debris of what looks like a food fight involving bright orange “Cheetos” type snacks. Dad talks about […]

Nick Illes was an employee at the now-defunct NuWilshire Theatre. His name was misspelled in the article about the NuWilshire in the November 8-14 issue of the Mirror. Our apologies to Mr. Illes.

On Saturday, November 10, our 60-year-old friend, a veteran of the waves since childhood, Joel Fishman, was surfing just south of the Santa Monica Pier. He wiped out at one point and two brothers on […]

I was on yet another road trip a couple of weeks back. Went through central Oregon on a beautiful fall weekend when the colors were resplendent and near their peak. We took the Cave Junction […]