Santa Monica is a city rich with cultural happenings. There are concerts, art shows and other events going on every week. But there were ten particularly noteworthy events this year that we felt warranted recognition […]

ADAM FRIEDMAN, SPECIAL TO THE MIRROR A “caboose” is a word that is occasionally used for the butt. Unfortunately this has become an all-too-true analogy for much of today’s population. In the same way a […]

On Dec. 11 the Sherry Frumkin Gallery held a typical art reception. The small gallery and the hallway outside featured Linda Ekstrom’s multi-textured works and wood and metal pieces by Giuseppe de Pero. Visitors nibbled […]

Whether you spell it Hanukkah or Chanukah, by any name it is the Festival of Lights, a Jewish holiday that occurs in the Hebrew month of Kislev and lasts for eight days, beginning, as with […]

ADAM FRIEDMAN SPECIAL TO THE MIRROR Aging can be defined as a functional decline over time, and this process is happening at this very moment for each and every one of us, to some in […]

At the self-proclaimed “terribly old” age of 91, Yvonne Mounsey has directed the Westside Ballet of Santa Monica’s Nutcracker production in true, traditional form for 39 years and counting. She finds ballet to be a […]

Jeremy Alum’s adaptation of “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” covers all things biblical, but expands to encompass some of the pure wonder of life. From the biblical approach of purgatory, to what some believe […]