Last year Santa Monica’s El Cholo restaurant played host to over 2,000 people celebrating Cinco de Mayo.  12,000 tortilla chips and 1,500 Margaritas were consumed. photo by Bev Cohn  

Laura Avery Mirror Contributing Writer Skies have been gray over Santa Monica but the rains have been holding off, so the farmers’ markets have been able to carry on as usual. But farmers tell stories […]

Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus stretches before the start of the inaugural Carpe Diem Santa Monica Classic held to benefit Heal the Bay on April 30. Louis-Dreyfus ran and finished the 5k run among nearly 2,000 other […]

May is Mental Health Month.  The week of May 7-13 is both Children’s Mental Health Week and National Mental Health Counseling Week. According to the National Mental Health Association (NMHA), 19 million Americans are diagnosed […]

Gilbert’s El Indio Mexican Restaurant is a familial business in more ways than one. The Rodriguez family has been serving home-cooked Mexican dishes in the traditional way since 1974 at this restaurant, which is now […]

The Samohi Science Bowl Team has won third place at the National Science Bowl in Washington, D.C.  Over 1,800 schools from 42 states competed in the two-day event. Mr. Ingo Gaida coached the Samohi team, […]

May sweeps often bring out the worst in our normally well-believed networks that mostly give us what we’re expecting every week.  But when they’re all competing for advertising dollars, as they do this time of […]

Laura Wilde Mirror Contributing Writer Aries You get the idea that it isn’t healthy to always be wanting what others have. It obliterates everything else. You have riches beside you. You are wealthy beyond all […]

Cardio Tennis combines tennis with a cardio workout. Mondays, Tuesdays and Sundays at The Yahoo Center, 26th and Broadway.  For more information, call 310.770.1918 or go to www.ojakiantennis.com.   Dance and Live Fiddle Band, the […]

Community and Special Events May 5 Asian Americana: Exploring the Past, Looking to the Future, lecture at Santa Monica College Concert Hall, 1900 Pico Blvd., 310.434.4303. May 5-6 El Homo de Mayo, interlocking stories about […]