April Fool’s Day isn’t really “celebrated” in the strictest sense. I’ve never been invited to an April Fool’s party although maybe the perfect April 1st event would be to invite people to a party… and […]

There’s always reason for suspicion when political parties with dramatically disparate ideologies band together for anything. So it was when the state Republican and Democratic parties partnered in a lawsuit that eventually got California’s old […]

You may have heard that the Encyclopedia Britannica will no longer exist as a kind of wall of knowledge on shelves in classrooms and school libraries. No more penciling-in funny cartoon bubbles coming out of […]

The fact that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney can’t seem to cinch this year’s Republican presidential nomination despite his funding advantage and the splintering of his party’s extreme right wing has a lot of California […]

If arcane knowledge of computers and web sites and little-known rock bands is in any way the Esperanto of the current and preceding generations, then it’s probably safe to assert that reciting bits from Firesign […]

As time goes by and initiative petition circulators buttonhole more and more Californians outside big box stores and shopping malls, it becomes increasingly obvious that all three state tax increase initiatives now in the works […]

For most of us, family can be the glue that holds us to this life; a source of strength and the sun around which the various other planets of our life revolve. Mirror Editor-in-Chief Brenton […]

A loud hissing contest on California’s left political flank began weeks before the state’s largest health insurance companies announced the other day they plan to raise average rates by 8 percent to 14 percent for […]

It happens with every pop cultural wave: That moment when things turn. I’m old enough to remember when it seemed everybody was being held captive by the hypnotic backbeat of disco. “Do the Hustle!” All […]