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 […]

A friend of ours once spent six months in San Francisco. When he came back to L.A. he said, “Everyone has a job in San Francisco, but no one works. In Los Angeles, everyone works, […]

Housing has become prohibitively expensive in some of America’s best-known tourist towns, and five California communities are near the top of the list of the most expensive places, according to a new study by the […]

Last Thursday evening, Main Street’s new lights were turned on. Their primary purpose is to encourage more people to spend their evenings on Ocean Park’s principal  thoroughfare. Last Saturday, artists, street performers, musicians and advocates […]

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District and Santa Monica College are collaborating on a “multi-jurisdictional, resources-saving planning process to complete a Disaster Mitigation Plan (DMA 2000) in compliance with new federal regulations,” according to a […]

The Santa Monica Conservancy awarded local developer Jim Rosenfield and past president Tom Cleys the organization’s highest honors for their outstanding accomplishments in promoting preservation in the city at a gathering on March 6th at […]

If Santa Monica has a doppelganger, it’s the English coastal resort town of Brighton — even if the mirror image is somewhat distorted. Brighton (full name Brighton & Hove) is colder (the average temperature in […]

Shernice Lazare, second grade teacher at John Muir Elementary School, returned to her classroom here on February 1st, after teaching the Year 3 group in Bradford, England at the Lidget Green Primary School for five […]