It’s unfortunate that Kirstie Alley’s potentially groundbreaking series on Showtime, “Fat Actress,” is the equivalent of having someone throw rotten tomatoes at you all the while smiling and laughing and hoping you like it.  Well, […]

For the 56th time, upwards of 1,000 students in Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District schools will take the stage in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in the district’s musical extravaganza, Stairway of the Stars, on […]

The Santa Monica High School Symphony Orchestra won the National Grand Championship at the ASTA/NSOA (American String Teachers Association) Conference in Reno, Nevada during a competition held February 24-27. The Samohi Chamber Orchestra received a […]

The Santa Monica Symphony’s sixtieth anniversary continues with the third of four free concerts on Sunday, March 13. On the program are works by Weber, Mozart and  Shostakovich. The 7:30 concert will open with Weber’s […]

It’s official.  The American public has no taste.  How else does one explain the success of The Pacifier, one of the worst scripts ever put to film?  It somehow managed to beat Be Cool, Hitch […]

In a chair near Michael Tito had to crawl back: To play himself on E!,He didn’t get a callback.

California’s electric future now lies squarely in the hands of five virtually anonymous and untouchable commissioners appointed by two governors. What they do over the next year will in large part determine how much power […]

WASHINGTON – I went to see the Al Pacino Merchant of Venice movie the other day. It was funny to watch the climactic courtroom scene in which the cross-dressing Portia sets a dazzling legal trap […]

As many of us may remember from our school days, one of the reasons Communism had to be defeated was that in the USSR, the government controlled the news. The people there didn’t hear or […]

Citizens need not apply To the editor: I have just finished reading Ms. Burn’s article in this week’s Mirror. I have the following comment:  Hitler would have loved the Ellis Act, wouldn’t he have? And […]