Santa Monica was recognized as one of the top ten “sustainable cities” in the U.S. at a ceremony on the U.N.’s World Environment Day at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco on June 2. Santa […]

More students than ever, about 600 out of a class of 1100, put on the traditional caps and gowns and marched into Corsair Field for the 75th Santa Monica College commencement ceremonies late yesterday to […]

Rock/Pop   13th Annual American Society of Young Musicians’ House of Blues Spring Benefit Concert and Awards Show with Linda Hopkins, Solomon Burke, Dwight Yoakam, The Goo Goo Dolls, Josh Groban, Billy Bob Thornton, Common, […]

There is a great line in Citizen Kane about Kane’s wife Susan who is referred to in the newspapers as a “singer.”  Kane wanted to remove the quotation marks.  It seems that director Ron Howard, […]

The chart (below) ran in last week’s Mirror. We are running it again, not to depress you further, but because last week’s chart was incomplete. Somehow, we still have no idea how, the revenue sources […]

A progress report on the Special Education Department to the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education last Thursday drew criticism and calls for collaboration from members of the District’s Special Education Committee (SEDAC). […]

The City of Santa Monica has been awarded $113,241 by the California Cultural and Historical Endowment (CCHE) to underwrite the conservation and installation of the  historic Stanton Macdonald-Wright murals in the new Santa Monica Main […]

Cody Decker, who enjoyed an outstanding senior season for Ocean League baseball champion Santa Monica High, has signed a letter of intent with UCLA. Although full scholarships are rare in college baseball because of NCAA […]

There are a host of organized local hikes especially designed for families and young children, opportunities that my contemporaries lament were virtually unavailable when we were children. In fact, the one “field trip” offered by […]

The storied Dodgers and Yankees might be mired in the standings in the Big Leagues but not in the Rustic Canyon youth baseball league where the Dodgers and Yankees will vie for the spring season […]