June 23, 2026
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Candidates Grapple with Airport Issues:

Concerned Residents Against Airport Pollution (C.R.A.A.P.) brought its issue to bear in the City Council race on Thursday evening, October 5, at the Ken Edwards Center on 4th Street when it hosted a candidates forum […]

Duffy:

Take that, Philadelphia: Damon & Pythias on Wilshire Boulevard in SM offers “LA Cheesesteak – on grilled foccacia bread – balsamic-spice marinated flank steak, blue cheese dressing, country onions, mixed baby greens, tomatoes” … What? […]

Oops! We did it again!:

Several corrections for last week’s issue: Page 11: Iao Katagiri’s name was misspelled as Katagiry. Page 20: Julie Eizenberg’s name was misspelled as Eisenberg. Page 30: Colombian telenovela was misspelled as Columbian telenovella. In last […]

The Lady on The Pier:

Michael Meurer Special To The Mirror One recent Thursday evening, I went to the free weekly concert on the Santa Monica Pier to see and hear the famous Chilean music group Inti-Illimani playing their flutes, […]

“Idiocracy”: The #1 Unseen Comedy in America!:

Mike Judge is a pretty smart guy. While it was reported that he initially made a financially disadvantageous deal with MTV on his now legendary “Beavis and Butthead” cartoon characters, the headline “Nice Creative Person […]

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Publisher fired at LA Times The firing of LA Times publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson should come as no surprise. Just a few weeks back, his bosses in Chicago told him he was going to have […]

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Prop BB is a cruel, costly scam. Proponents say it’s essential to save kids from leaky roofs and worse, but schools have ample maintenance budgets to address these issues. The real issue is the need […]

A Message From the Historical Society:

The Santa Monica Historical Society Museum has launched a $5 million capital campaign for the build-out of its new 5,000 square foot state-of-the-art museum and to provide an endowment to sustain programming, historical preservation and […]

Santa Monica Means Business:

Starbucks and Santa Monica-based Cooking.com have joined forces to launch Starbucks at Home, a coffee auto-reorder subscription program made available through StarbucksStore.com. Cooking.com is an online kitchen and housewares destination founded in 1998 that provides […]

Planning Board Hears New Santa Monica Place Proposal:

A team from the Macerich Company, owners of Santa Monica Place (SMP), has presented Santa Monica’s Planning Commission with a new revitalization project for the mall. Gone from the plan were the three 21-foot towers […]