March 7, 2026
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Samohi Men’s Volleyball Reaches CIF’s Final Four:

Dave Quick Reporter-at-Large   The Santa Monica High School men’s volleyball team has won each of its first three single elimination playoff rounds and will play Downey High School on the road this week in […]

Samohi Softball Win Ranks With The Best:

Mitch Chortkoff Mirror Sports Writer When the first round CIF playoff game ended Friday on the Samohi softball field Viking Coach Debbie Skaggs searched her memory. Was this the best it’s been in her 19 […]

Virginia Avenue Park Wins Design Award:

Santa Monica’s Koning Eizenberg Architecture was recently awarded a silver LEED rating from the U.S. Green Building Council for its work on Virginia Avenue Park, the very first park in the country to receive the […]

Pacific Park 10 Years Later:

Laurie Rosenthal Editor May 26 is Pacific Park’s 10th birthday. It’s hard to believe Pacific Park is turning 10; in a way, it seems as though it’s always been there. I watched Pacific Park being […]

Television: In the Soup: Baghdad ER:

Sasha Stone Mirror TV Critic It is not about us; it is about them. We sometimes forget that we are in this together. We voted in our President, he took us to war; our soldiers […]

Food For Thought:

Beverly Cohn Editor-at-Large The Getty Center played host for the 15th season to the literary series Selected Shorts – A Celebration of the Short Story, the signature literary program of New York’s Symphony Space. The […]

Venice Artwalk Live Auction:

Robert Berman was the auctioneer for the Venice Artwalk Live Auction held at Santa Monica Auctions in Bergamot Station. Will Ferrell (R) was one of the honorary co-chairs of the event. photo by Margaret Molloy

At The Movies: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary:

Da Vinci Code **1/2   Sasha Stone Mirror Film Critic   The page-to-screen story of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is one of the more interesting Hollywood tales of late.  The first act – […]

Santa Monica Means Business:

The Fairmont Miramar Hotel at Wilshire Blvd. and Ocean Ave. has appointed Jean-Claude Plihon as executive chef to oversee culinary operations at the property’s restaurant venues and 25,000 square feet of banquet space. Plihon is […]