July 8, 2026
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Unbeaten Brentwood Faces Major Test:

After winning the first four games of its football season, Brentwood will face a major test Friday night, October 5, by playing a non-league game at Paraclete.  Also unbeaten, Paraclete competes in a higher CIF […]

Coach’s Upstairs View Helps Samohi Bounce Back:

The head coach was not on the sideline when Santa Monica High’s football team defeated Long Beach Jordan Friday night at Corsair Field, 27-13. But that’s the way Zach Cuda wanted it. Cuda called plays […]

Police Make Arrest in Rapist/Burglar Case:

Police arrested a 17-year-old Hispanic male in Oxnard on Friday afternoon, September 28, as the suspect in the previous night’s condominium burglary and rape in the 1100 block of Princeton Street, just north of Wilshire […]

Police Seek Rapist/Burglar:

September 28 – Santa Monica police are seeking a man who last night raped a woman in her Princeton Street condominium when she came home to find him burglarizing the unit.           The woman came […]

ADVERTISING MAN OF THE YEAR:

Santa Monica City Councilmember Bobby Shriver was honored this week as 2007 Advertising Person of the Year at the Metropolitan Club in New York. His (RED) marketing initiative, which he founded in 2006 with U2 […]

Blue Bus Breaks Ground:

City officials donned hard hats and dug bus-blue shovels into a mound of earth as the Santa Monica Municipal Bus Lines “broke ground” Monday, September 24, on a 66,000-square-foot state-of-the-art maintenance facility for the new […]

Downtown SM Power Charges Defused for Now:

Southern California Edison, which supplies electricity to downtown Santa Monica (and the rest of the city), was summoned by downtown businesses this past July to discuss then-recent power outages termed simply “not acceptable” by Jeffrey […]

Horoscopes: Laura Wilde, Mirror Contributing Writer

ARIES In trying to understand today, you find yourself looking to the past. It’s easy to forgive the troubles of those times when they’re not staring right back at you. I’m sure if you really […]

Surf-A-Thon Raises over $75,000 for OCEANA:

Undeterred by last Saturday’s torrential downpour, scores of surfers hit the water last weekend along Santa Monica beach south of the pier for Make a Wave Project’s first ever 24-hour Surf-A-Thon fund-raiser.  Surf participants raised […]