Teens in grades 7-12, or ages 12-18, are invited to submit original films between two and 15 minutes in length and fall within the following three categories: live action, animation/experimental and music video. The deadline […]

Over the Hedge **** Sasha Stone Mirror Film Critic Over the Hedge is a surprisingly funny cautionary tale about the dangers of suburban life when it threatens to cut out family values. It isn’t just […]

Hannah Heineman Mirror Staff Writer   Santa Monica’s new City Manager P. Lamont Ewell was the keynote speaker at the Friends of Sunset Park’s annual meeting. Ewell, who started as City Manager in January, stressed […]

Bruce Vilanch might very well be the funniest, non-household name working in show business today.  If you like the Academy Awards, Vilanch is a good part of the reason.  You know those long, tedious sections […]

Beverly Cohn Editor-at-Large With a movement underway by the municipal government and community groups, including Friends of the Los Angeles River (FoLAR), to reclaim L.A.’s cement-bottom river, the Skirball Cultural Center has put together a […]

Hannah Heineman Mirror Staff Writer The City of Santa Monica and Caltrans are planning for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the California Incline Bridge in order to comply with current seismic standards. New bridge construction […]

Hannah Heineman Mirror Staff Writer After a lengthy discussion, Santa Monica’s Planning Commission has decided to have a subcommittee draft a letter to the City Council requesting that they fund a study of alternative methods […]

The American Cancer Society’s 4th Annual Southern California Invitational will honor UCLA Doctors Frederick and Fritz Eilber, a father and son team who have worked tirelessly in the fight against cancer. Revolution Studios partner Tom […]

California’s pioneering regulations aimed at cutting automotive emissions of global warming gases are now getting the kind of validation that ought to end the predictable and ongoing resistance of large automakers. The rules, passed two […]

Sharon Gilpin, former City Planning Commissioner Special to the Mirror Almost 20 years ago the six-story Loew’s Hotel opened on Santa Monica’s Ocean Avenue, then a street of sleepy two-story hotels and modest apartments. Although […]