Thousands of parents and friends attended graduation exercises for 816 seniors at Santa Monica High School last Thursday afternoon. Under blue skies, Valedictorian Stephanie Ann Thorton, Salutatorians Monica Rose Cowan and Ava Rose Tramer, Student […]

The folks responsible for the recent remodeling of the entrance way to the Westridge Trailhead have raised the bar for Los Angeles. Getty, which erected the vanilla Kenter entrance, is humbled in comparison. In fact, […]

The St. Mark (Venice) Boys Volleyball team (8th grade and under) completed the best season in school history by finishing second in the 200-school Los Angeles Catholic Youth Organization. In the best of three championship […]

Tom McGarvin, a former star USC athlete who was athletic director at Santa Monica College in the 1970s, has died. McGarvin passed away last week in Rancho Mirage. He was 80. In 1940, McGarvin became […]

If Phil Jackson wanted to secure his reputation as a great basketball coach, he would have stayed in retirement with nine NBA championships. If he wanted to break a tie with Boston’s Red Auerbach, the […]

Away from the bright lights of Friday evenings, in a time of year known as the off-season, high school football teams go through a lot of preparation. Did you know they play three times as […]

Aries You fight another battle this week, and in so doing refresh your own home page; you know what it’s all about and what you have to do. Finishing something you started a long time […]

Anastasia’s Asylum – 1028 Wilshire, Santa Monica. (310)394-7113 Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center – FREE Workshops & Readings. This week: (Spoken Word/Performance section) Ongoing: Monday Night Fiction, 8pm, with Jason Mahanes. Tuesday Night Creative Non-Fiction, […]

St. Teresa Stone, Mirror contributing writeremail: groovesmirror@yahoo.com Rock/Pop   Francisco Aguabella, Soja, Destani Wolf, DJ Sloe Poke at Temple Bar, 6/30.  Living legend Aguabella of the Buena Vista Social Club fame graces the westside. The […]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, the most magical outdoor setting in Topanga, becomes the enchanted woods of Athens in this second offering of the Theatricum’s repertory season. 8 p.m., through September 24, […]