Aries What a troublesome week this is shaping up to be. If it’s not one thing it’s another. You worry and fret and count figures and avoid phone calls – and still, it’s as if […]

14 Below – 1348 14th St., Santa Monica. (310)451-5040. Or go to 14below.com Amoeba Music – 6400 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. (323)245-6400 Bigfoot Lodge – 3172 Los Feliz Blvd., LA. (323)662-9227. The Catalina Bar & Grill […]

Rock/Pop   Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Amoeba Music, 6/26, 2pm.  “Masters and torchbearers of New Orleans Jazz visit Amoeba . . . New Orleans Jazz is not to be confused with the two-beat Dixieland […]

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, […]

* Recommended Submissions to the calendar should be directed to mirrorcalendar@yahoo.com; music and poetry events should be sent to groovesmirror@yahoo.com PLEASE DO NOT SEND attachments. The Asian Poster, through July 23. The recent Asian graphic […]

Carnevale! Venice Beach, 2005, in the tradition of the Italian Carnevale in Venice, is launching the Venice Beach Centennial, Saturday, June 25th, noon til 10 p.m., on Windward Circle in Venice. Beginning at Noon, performers […]

A.R.T.S. Anonymous, a support group for creative people, meets every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Wild Oats Community Room, 500 Wilshire Blvd., (310) 836-1495. Ballroom Dancing every Saturday in the auditorium of the Felicia Mahood Senior […]

Volunteers Wanted with Crohn’s Disease – Approximately 500,000 Americans are estimated to suffer from Crohn’s disease and may be eligible to participate in new clinical trials taking place around the country. These Phase 3 trials […]

Placebos can be very powerful things. In many drug trials, some of the participants are given placebos and told they are medicine. I was shown one study in which 50 percent of the people taking […]

Billed as “a thriller about the meaning of life,” British screenwriter (Gladiator) William Nicholson’s first novel purports to be part Salinger and part Kafka. That’s intriguing for a minute or so, but ultimately, The Society […]