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OpEd: Here Comes the Sun:

June 26, 2016 mirrormmg

OpEd: Anyone from my generation might express a warm feeling for George Harrison’s song “Here Comes the Sun.” First of all, it’s a tune from the “quiet Beatle” that is in many ways perfect in its simplicity: It’s been a long cold lonely winter and now… here comes the sun. The sun in the song is the arrival of better days and even a new clarity about whatever it is that has been troubling you and making you feel blue; perhaps clearing away a fog of depression, making things warm and right again.

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Santa Monica Haunted? Well Maybe…:

June 25, 2016 mirrormmg

It happens every day. The sun goes down, a cool breeze rolls in from the ocean, chilling your spine with every second. According to some, that’s not just the ocean breeze that’s the paranormal.

Damon Ramos is an artist born and raised in Santa Monica. He will be one of the popular Laguna Art-A-Fair feature artists at the event that opens today. Courtesy photo

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Santa Monica Artist Featured at Laguna:

June 25, 2016 mirrormmg

Damon Ramos is an artist born and raised in Santa Monica. He will be one of the popular Laguna Art-A-Fair feature artists at the event that opened yesterday.

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Welcome Santa Monica Chamber’s New Board:

June 25, 2016 mirrormmg

The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce installed their new 2016-2017 board June 15, with an evening at host hotel Fairmont Miramar Hotel and Bungalows welcoming new and old members in celebration.

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Want to Buy the Pope’s Fiat in Santa Monica?:

June 25, 2016 mirrormmg

Want to Buy the Pope’s Fiat? Perhaps a 1995 Ferrari F50? The collector car community is set to once again descend on Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar this weekend, June 25 and 26, for one of the nation’s leading car auctions.

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Beyond Baroque Hosts Type-In Tomorrow:

June 24, 2016 mirrormmg

TypOwriter Artist, Louise Marler will host a “F451” Type-In, Art Exhibit and Silent Auction in celebration of Ray Bradbury’s literary masterpiece, Saturday, June 25 in Venice, as the final event of The Big Read Los Angeles.

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Transient Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murders of Two Women in Santa Monica:

June 24, 2016 mirrormmg

A transient was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole for strangling two women whose bodies were found in Santa Monica more than a decade ago.

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Main Street July 4 Parade, Last Chance to Join:

June 24, 2016 mirrormmg

The 10th Annual Santa Monica 4th of July Parade is almost here, and it’s not too late to get involved.

The United States Coast Guard presented the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) Harbor Unit with an award recognizing their service and vigilance on Wednesday. On the plaque, the engraved “semper paratus” meaning “always ready” shone through the sunlit room as a sign of excellence. “On behalf of the Santa Monica police department, we are extremely proud of our harbor unit, and are appreciative of the United States Coast Guard for recognizing the quality of work that we’ve had for over fifty years with them,” said SMPD Lieutenant Saul Rodriguez.

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Coast Guard Recognizes Santa Monica Police’s Harbor Unit:

June 24, 2016 mirrormmg

The United States Coast Guard presented the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) Harbor Unit with an award recognizing their service and vigilance on Wednesday.

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Rawvolution Closes its Doors in Santa Monica:

June 24, 2016 mirrormmg

Popular Main Street restaurant Rawvolution closed its doors Sunday, with the usual lively south-east corner of Main and Strand eerily void of its usual eclectic buzz.