School Board Meeting Focuses on Accountability
The multi-million-dollar financial deficit debacle served as catalyst at last Thursday’s meeting of...

Commentary: Everybody Into The Mudfight
Al Franken was devastated that the McCain people wouldn't go with his push-poll idea for the Michigan primary. He wanted voters to...

City Council Gives $2.1 Million Hand To School District
Santa Monica City Council Chambers resounded with applause last night when the City Council voted to give $2.1 million to the financially...

Assembly Candidates Have Much In Common
In an effort to sort out the stances and nuances that separate the jammed field of candidates for the open...

SANTA MONICA SCENES

KCRW To Air Debates
Santa Monica's public radio station, KCRW, will air the two Presidential debates that are taking place in...

School Board To Push For Parcel Tax
At its February 17 meeting, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) Board of Education accepted Superintendent Neil Schmidt's recommendation that...

SMC Faculty Association Is Optimistic, But Wary
The Santa Monica College faculty is optimistic but wary. Last week’s picketing of the College brought the Administration back to the...

AFM Rolls Out of Town, Breaking All Records
As the American Film Market (AFM) winds down today and the 7,000 distributors, producers, directors, managers and agents who...

Park and Beach Restrooms To Open in May
Problems with the fabrication and installation of their fiberglass roofs have delayed the completion of the seven new...

Arts Commission To Meet with Holt
The sun also rises. Nancy Holt, designer of the controversial Solar Web sculpture, will return to Santa Monica in early March to discuss...

ANDY TOLAND and HIS FATHER, BLAKE PLAY AIR HOCKEY at the Arcade on the Santa Monica Pier. photo by Jessie Drezner 

The Candidates Speak: Medea Benjamin: Why I'm Running for U.S. Senate
As a human rights advocate, economist, nutritionist, and mother, I have struggled for the...

Mirror Profile: Sylvia Rousseau: Principal and Woman of Principle
When Sylvia Rousseau spins childhood tales about her progressive parents and idyllic school days in the Cincinnati of 50 years ago, you listen and become...