The Pilgrims celebrated the first American Thanksgiving in 1621 and it was both a religious and political event. The grateful Pilgrims invited 90 members of the Wampanoag Nation, including the tribe’s chief, King Massasoit. When […]

There’s a green revolution brewing at Santa Monica High School. Conceived of and spearheaded entirely by two determined teens, the vision to turn Samohi into an energy efficient “green” school has blossomed into a body […]

Pity the people at Hallmark Cards. This holiday season they are heavily invested in snowmen, or the more correct “persons of snow.” You don’t own a TV, if you haven’t seen their commercial where a […]

Pity the people at Hallmark Cards. This holiday season they are heavily invested in snowmen, or the more correct “persons of snow.” You don’t own a TV, if you haven’t seen their commercial where a […]

City is missing boat To the City Council: It has become apparent that the City of Santa Monica is missing the boat on bringing the beach concessions and cafe into the 21 century. Realizing that […]

Recently, Turner Classic Movies devoted seven nights to the films of Alfred Hitchcock, interspersed with documentaries about the master and his works, and, though we’d seen all the movies and some of the documentaries before, […]

Dr. Lisa Garcia Bedolla, a political science professor at UC Irvine, will examine Latino life and politics in Los Angeles in the wake of the recent election of Antonio Villaraigosa as Los Angeles mayor in […]

In the Mirror report last week on the town hall meeting on impacts of Santa Monica Airport on its neighbors, we not only changed Michael Jerrett’s name to Ruhard Jerrett, we changed his title from […]

Santa Monica’s Planning Commission unanimously approved the required documents for a 12-lane bowling alley to be constructed on the second floor of the old Woolworths building at 1322 Third Street Promenade. The ground floor of […]

The Bubba Gump Shrimp Company opened its first outlet in the Los Angeles metro area on the Santa Monica Pier on Friday, Nov. 4.