California’s Largest Pet Adoption Festival, June 4, 11am-4pm, More than 1,000 homeless dogs, cats, puppies, kittens, rabbits and parrots from over 60 rescue groups and Los Angeles shelters will be up for adoption. Manchester Park, […]

sevendays@smmirror.com, PLEASE DO NOT SEND attachments!! TEXT only.  Last Chance  Dance in Cuba: Photographs by Gil Garcetti; 59 images from his new book, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, through June 4, 310.825.4361. Exhibits Jack […]

 Chalet Mirabel, an original children’s musical that takes place during the 1950’s in a Swiss Boarding School.  Thursdays through Sundays until June 11, all shows 8pm except 4pm Sunday matinees, Miles Memorial Playhouse, 1130 Lincoln […]

Send submissions and other related email to adam@smmirror.com / Music Listings 6.2-6.8.06 14 Below 1348 14th St., 310.451.5040, www.14below.com June 2, 8pm–People’s Party, 9pm–Autoflow, 10:15pm–Underground Orchestra, $8 June 3, 8pm–Porkupyne, 9pm–Apeyga, 10pm–Lana Now Fell, 11:30pm–In […]

 This Week Friday, June 2  End-of-Semester screening of student films produced by members of the SMC Student Filmmakers Association, formerly the Cinema Club, 6pm, Room 214 of the SMC Art Complex, 1900 Pico Blvd., 310.434.4588. […]

Submissions to the calendar should be directed to sevendays@smmirror.com PLEASE DO NOT SEND attachments!! TEXT only. Last Chance Woods Davy, sculpture, Craig Krull Gallery, Bergamot Station, through May 27, 310.828.6410. John Divola’s photographs and Colin […]

Theater, Performances & More That May Well be True, a comedy by Jay Reiss, the Ruskin Group, 3000 Airport Dr. at Santa Monica Airport. 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays and 2pm Sundays. Sundays are Pay-What-You-Can performances. […]

Frank Loweree Special to the Mirror The City of Santa Monica’s annual budget approval process concerns nearly $400 million in revenues and expenditures, and the line-item explanation itself is close to 500 pages in length. […]

Sharon Gilpin, former City Planning Commissioner Special to the Mirror Almost 20 years ago the six-story Loew’s Hotel opened on Santa Monica’s Ocean Avenue, then a street of sleepy two-story hotels and modest apartments. Although […]