Founded in 1937, the Assistance League of Sanra Monica will have its first parking lot sale on Saturday, February 18. Among the things on sale will be clothing for adults and children, household items and […]

Sometimes it pays to take time out focus on just one thing at the farmers’ market. With all the variety and choices on the farmers’ tables each week, it’s easy to overlook a particular item […]

What is “Lost,” really, but a bunch of clichés thrown into one really great prime time show? In fact, the three-way love triangle between Sawyer (Josh Holloway), Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Dr. Jack (Matthew Fox) […]

If “beauty is truth and truth, beauty” then Martha Sherrill is one up on James Frey. In the midst of working on a memoir about her flamboyant, womanizing father, Sherrill realized that exposing all of […]

When the California Heritage Museum’s current exhibition, “Behold, the Pacific! California Coast Views,” closes on Sunday, February 26, the paintings will be returned to their respective private collections, and may not be publicly displayed again […]

award-winning orchestra to tour in China in AprilThe Santa Monica High School Symphony is the first public high school orchestra to be featured in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association’s latest “Sounds About Town” series.Orchestra director […]

RUINS OF CALIFORNIAMartha SherrillPenguin Press Hardcover,January 2006Heather HoffmanMirror book criticAsk Martha Sherrill, author of new novel Ruins of California, what she misses most about her home state, and she replies, “There’s something about the air […]

Or How Brokeback Mountain Ruined Curious George. Sasha StoneMirror film critic Curious George, as written in book form, has always been a little weird, admittedly —- a grown man dressed in yellow hanging out with […]

Wells Fargo awarded $115,500 to 16 non-profit organizations in Santa Monica and Venice last year. The company is among the largest corporate contributor to non-profit organizations in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles and west San […]

In the wake of the graffiti and subsequent fights, Spanish teacher Claudia Bautista-Nicholas asked her students to write letters to her answering the following question: “What issues are on our campus and what can we […]