June 23, 2026
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Brian Wilson Presents a 40th Anniversary Tribute to Pet Sounds, November 1, 8pm Are you interested in enjoying an evening of can’t miss, mega-entertainment? If so, then run, don’t walk (corny but sincere) to pick […]

Beach Gourmet:

Our Beach Gourmet, Tim Broughton, has gone home across the pond for a couple of weeks of British delights such as fish and chips and steak and kidney pie. His column will return when he […]

Theatre Review: The Victorian Hotel

Lynne Bronstein, Mirror Staff Writer The Victorian Hotel, now playing at the Powerhouse Theatre, is the perfect play for Halloween. But it’s not for the kiddies, even though it is described as a “living cartoon.” […]

I Need a New Drug:

Sasha Stone, Mirror TV Critic Imagine my horror.  I look forward to Sunday nights because I know that some of the best television programming is on.  I get to be taught something I didn’t know […]

Landscape Painter Benjamin Williams Leader on Display:

Beverly Cohn, Editor-at-Large With beautiful classical music played by Robert Korda & His Stringed Trio filling the quaint Cambridge Art Gallery in Santa Monica, invited guests viewed a striking collection of paintings by noted Victorian […]

Calendar:

sevendays@smmirror.com, Please send information 10 days before your event Last Chance Absolutely Halloween, a holiday-themed musical for the family, returns for a five-week run, through October 29, 12:30pm and 3pm Saturdays and Sundays, Santa Monica […]

At The Movies: Wild Horses: Flicka **1/2

Sasha Stone Mirror Film Critic Flicka is a film about wild things. Or it wants to be. While the original book and film, My Friend Flicka, are about a boy and his horse, the new […]

Duffy…:

Pico Artists at Work on Sunday, October 15, presented the opportunity to experience a not-quite-yet-burgeoning “art district” before it takes off … The heaviest concentration of artsy storefronts was clearly between 30th and 34th streets […]

Disability Awareness Month Celebration:

In celebration of Disability Awareness Month, the Santa Monica Disabilities Commission (SMDC) will be honoring a local organization. The SMDC will be giving Circle of Friends the Commission’s very first award. Circle of Friends is […]

Santa Monica-Malibu PTA Looks to November Election:

This November, like others in the past and many Novembers to come, California will hold an election that contains races critical to our schools and to our children. One of PTA’s primary missions is “to […]