A special benefit performance of Eve Ensler’s award-winning play The Vagina Monologues will be given at the Silver Screen Theater in the Pacific Design Center this weekend. The cast will include Rachelle Carson, Janet Chapman, […]

Once again, independent film makers will gather in a tent on the Santa Monica beach for the 20th annual IFP Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday afternoon, February 26. Samuel L. Jackson will host this year’s […]

Sasha Stone Mirror staff writer Boy, the times they have a-changed. Did you know Gil Cates, veteran producer of this year’s Oscar telecast, had a blog on Oscar.com? The lengths the Academy will go to […]

Arthur Miller died February 10  of congestive heart failure. He was 89, and he was the last of the  great 20th century American playwrights. If Eugene O’Neill invented modern American drama and Tennessee Williams gave […]

Peggy Clifford, Editor Some years ago when the Santa Monica Pier was more freewheeling than it is now, a woman named Beryl presided over a vast room that was filled with  white plaster casts of […]

Sasha Stone Mirror film critic The Chorus — Les Choristes in its native language — was a big hit when it was released in France last year.  Here in the U.S., of course, all it […]

John Deasy, Ph.D. Superintendent, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Special to the Mirror By all accounts 2005 will be a defining year for public education. 2005 will test our leadership as we protect students, the […]

Paul Krugman New York Times News Service It may sound shrill to describe President Bush as someone who takes food from the mouths of babes and gives the proceeds to his millionaire friends. Yet his […]

Bush’s plan to increase homelessness To the editor: Wherever I am in Southern California, I see an ever-growing population of homeless people.  From the streets of Los Angeles and Santa Monica to the corners of […]

We like Bill Rosendahl. And one of the things we like about him is that he’s crazy about L.A. After a long run as host and producer of the best public affairs shows on L.A. […]