Landmarks & Treasures: XIII

Vital Incidentals:
The Bridge and The Pergola

The Pergola
Palisades Park has a surprising number of historic monuments, small structures and ephemera, but perhaps the most visible and among the most cherished is the pergola, near the western end of Idaho Avenue...

Main Street Bridge
From Santa Monica’s founding in 1875 to the 1920s, Main Street ended abruptly at a deep arroyo, just south of the business district...
 

Legendary SMC Marching Band Tunes Up One More Time
Frank Turner emerged from a coffin at the 50-yard line as Count Dracula during a Halloween halftime show at a football game...

At The Movies: Good as Gold
Most fans of David Mamet revere “Glengarry Glen Ross” as if it were a kind of Hamlet of cinema. Indeed, very few films reach the level of excellence the actors provide...

Verdi Chorus To Do Bellini, Wagner
In its eighteenth year, The Verdi Chorus will present a grand opera concert on Saturday, November 10, in its new home at the First United Methodist Church...

Books in the Mirror: Author Thrives On Her Small Patch of Earth
Within 48 hours after she received the news that her novel “Highwire Moon’’ had been nominated for the 2001 National Book Award in Fiction...

Mirror Orphan Of The Week

Bargain CD of the Week: I GOT YOUR BLUES RIGHT HERE
In what now seems like a lifetime ago, I went to The Getty on September 8 to see the debut of Nic Harcourt’s Unsigned Indies series...

Center Stage: Femi Kuti
At The House of Blues 11/13. Kuti has deservedly inherited the crown his father Fela Kuti wore, but more importantly...

Starry Skies Above Santa Monica
For many centuries, comets were believed to be either heralds or direct carriers of all possible disasters affecting humanity...

CyberBabble: The Sleeping Lions of Afghanistan
“I’m the woman who has awoken, I’ve found my path and will never return. I’ve opened closed doors of ignorance,” from the poem I’ll Never Return by the late Meena Kishwarkamel ...

Stress Tests: Living in An Uncertain World
One of the most difficult situations for many of us to deal with is uncertainty about the future. In the post 9-11 world, we are uncertain about when and where the terrorists will strike, and we naturally worry if we or our loved ones will be harmed...

Poetry in the Mirror: My New War

NAACP Honors Winfield, Glover
Two of America’s most distinguished actors will be honored at the Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP twelfth annual Theatre Awards at the Directors Guild Theater on Monday, November 12...

Farmers Market Report: We Try Harder
Remember when there were only two car rental companies -– Hertz and the other one; the one that was always coming in second and was known more by its humble motto...

Of Particular Interest: 3rd Annual Polish Film Festival in America
A variety of films will be shown at the Laemmle’s Monica 4-Plex beginning Friday, November 9 and running through Thursday, November 15...

Making Magic at Miles Playhouse
“Making Magic,” which grew out of the Virginia Avenue Project’s Replay Workshop, will play at the Miles Playhouse, November 16 to 18...

A Faire of the Heart To Be Held
The Serra Project, southern California’s leading provider of housing for people living with HIV/AIDS will host “A Faire of the Heart,” a dinner and silent auction to benefit its homes for men, women and children on Sunday, November 11...

(L. to R.) Jim Santilena, Phyllis Ayers and Elisha Shapiro in Sheila Walsh-Vargas’ “Pets” in “Follies.”

Faculty Follies At SMC Friday
Santa Monica College will present its first-ever “Follies” — a variety show that spotlights the performing talents of its faculty, staff and students — at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9 in the SMC Concert Hall, 1900 Pico Boulevard...