November 3, 2025
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This Week:

Hilary Brace: Recent Drawings, Mark Bohne: Paintings, through July 10, Craig Krull Gallery, Bergamot Station, craigkrullgallery.com. Cash on Delivery, play by Michael Cooney, through July 11, 8pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2pm Sundays, $14-$18, Theatre Palisades Pierson Playhouse, […]

Music:

July 9 Peter Case @ McCabe’s Guitar Shop Joey Everett, Age of Trinity, Wait For Green, Chaly’s Bronson @ Rusty’s Surf Ranch I See Hawks in LA, Rick Shea @ Boulevard Music, CC July 10 […]

Exhibits:

Ron Davis, Pause, through July 31, FIG, Bergamot Station, 310.829.0345. Martin Durazo, Pain Management, Ana Guajardo, Tianguis, reception August 7, 6-10pm, through September 24, 18th Street Arts Center, 1839 18th St, 310.453.3711. Robin Kandel: Measure, […]

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS/ONGOING EVENTS:

Academic Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (AFICE) is looking for individuals to work as Community Representatives, who will find host families for international students and will work with them and their families. Call Anne Ring, […]

Jennifer Lawrence as Ree Dolly in Dirctor Debra Granik's Winter's Bone.

At the Movies: A Desperate Hero

Even though we’re smack dab in the middle of summer film fest, not every hero is sporting bright spandex or touting a deadly weapon. Some heroes are just ordinary people doing all they can to […]

Don Fischer as Charles and Colette as his wife Lane.

Theater Review: The Clean House

Editor-at-Large Far be it from me to disagree with the New York Times, which called The Clean House by award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl “one of the finest and funniest new plays you’re likely to see,” […]

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone’s South of the Border:

Outside Laemmle’s Monica Theatre on the evening of July 2, the lineup of ticket buyers jostled for sidewalk space with cheering fans greeting Oliver Stone as he arrived to talk about his new film South […]

Alert: Police Blotter:

Under The Influence On Thursday, July 1, at 9:28 a.m., officers of the Santa Monica Police Department traveled to Douglas Park, located at 2400 Wilshire, in response to a report of two people who were […]

The City Council’s Final LUCE Meetings:

Santa Monica’s city ccouncil continued to review, discuss and modify the potential zoning changes that were incorporated in the Draft Land Use and Circulation Element document on July 1 and July 6. One of the […]