December 31, 2025
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Exhibits:

Art 100: LMU Alumni Artists, exhibit opens today through Nov. 18, with an opening reception 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 24, during LMU’s annual Alumni Weekend. Wednesday to Sunday from 12 p.m. to […]

Santa Monica Music Guide Sept. 9-15:

Here is The Santa Monica Mirror‘s upcoming live music guide for Friday, September 9 through Thursday, September 15. Friday, September 9 Igor and the Red Elvises @ Rusty’s Surf Ranch The Pico Sessions @ Bar […]

Star Gazing

Star Gazing:

ARIES Too many things are happening to you at the same time. Can you juggle with your hands already full? You need to organize your schedule and you might have to say no to some […]

Theater:

Hostages, a two-act drama about gender and power in the work place, premieres. $10. Saturdays and Sundays at 8 p.m. through Oct. 2. Ruskin Group Studio Theater. 3000 Airport Avenue. 310.397.3244, http://www.ruskingrouptheatre.com Dreams In Variation, […]

This Week:

LAST CHANCE You Make Me Physically Ill and So Damned Heavenly Bound, these two one-acts conclude Saturday, Sept. 10. Elephant Stage Theatre. $20 Friday/Saturday 8 p.m. 6322 Santa Monica Boulevard. Los Angeles. Plays411.com/physicallyill THIS WEEK […]

Mike Anderson

Chez Jay: From Soup To Nuts:

Chez Jay is a popular bar-restaurant on Santa Monica’s Ocean Avenue, which boasts an ample menu and a well-stocked cellar. But its most famous food story concerns a peanut in a shell, like the ones […]

Images depicting the extent of sun damage caused by sun exposure.

Free Screenings At Santa Monica Skin Care Practice:

A local Santa Monica dermatologist is offering free, potentially lifesaving skin screenings to the public every Friday for the rest of September. With the end of summer right around the corner, the public can see, […]

Thomas B. Elias, Columnist

Air Board Credibility Hit By Lack Of Change:

The departed administration of ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been thoroughly discredited, its record of bending public policy to the whims of campaign donors often demonstrated and his own lack of trustworthiness amply proven. But pockets […]