Mirror Media Group, publisher of the Santa Monica Mirror and parent company of Direct Community Video, has acquired the biweekly business publication Century City News. The transaction comes a little more than a week after […]

Legendary composer/conductor John Williams returns to the Hollywood Bowl this weekend to lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a spectacular program of music from the silver screen. There will be two performances, at 8 pm […]

Santa Monica resident and UC Riverside graduate student Elias Serna knew he had become a collector of books the day his mother told him, “Ya no compres tantos libros” (“Don’t buy any more books”). Persistence […]

What can you say about one of the world’s most gifted actresses? We have watched Australian-born Cate Blanchett transform herself on the big screen creating a myriad of distinctly different characters.   She’s Elizabeth in […]

Like a cat stalking prey, I’ve had my eye on Pork Belly’s Sandwich Shop since I first heard of its pending opening in mid-July. Earlier this month, when I finally made my way through the […]