Poster Fair: Glimpses of Other Times, Other Places
An exclusive exhibit of Toulouse-Lautrec posters and three lectures will highlight the fourth annual International Vintage Poster Fair (IVPF) at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on Friday...

SMC Salon Features Local Poets
Noted Los Angeles poets Judith Taylor, Richard Garcia and Wilfred Doucet will read from their works at Santa Monica College’s Salon Series at SMC’s Madison Campus on Saturday, January 26...

ON THE STAGE: SINGING TROLLS
It isn’t an offspring of Harry Potter mania. The delightful musical, “Trolls,” takes its name from the epithet used by some young gay men to refer to their over-forty counterparts...

In the Kitchen: That’s Italian? That’s Italian!
Viana La Place has written nine Italian cookbooks. Actually, they could more appropriately be called books on cooking like the Italians do...

At The Movies: Caught in a Trap
For Ridley Scott fans who were disappointed with “Gladiator,” we get our beloved director back with “Black Hawk Down,” one of the best films of the year...

One-Woman Show Opens At Powerhouse
Written and performed by Alison Larkin, “The English American” is based on the true story of the British adoptee’s search for and reunion with her American birth mother in Bald Mountain, Tennessee...

Books In The Mirror: Tony Hillerman Illuminates A Mystery: Himself
His mysteries draw readers into red-rock canyons, introduce them to medicine men and born-again crooks who drop clues along cliff walls and into the jawbones of ancient Anasazi skulls...

New & Notable
The good news is that you can lie back in your Barcalounger and eat pizza all day while you read about the brutal regimen that turns ordinary men into the world-class warriors of the Navy SEALs...

Bargain CD of the Week: SULTRY HONKY FUNK
Last summer, I wanted to donate some of my Dad’s old stage sets to Santa Monica College and it took a while to get someone out to the house to check them out...

Of Particular Interest: A Major Retrospective of Film Director John Carpenter at the American Cinematheque

Center Stage: Little Richard and Chuck Berry

This Week’s Mirror Orphan

In the Media: Casualties Of War Coverage
The surest sign that the first fevered rush of terrorism coverage has ended was The New York Times’s decision to discontinue its separate “A Nation Challenged’’ war news section and its “Portraits of Grief’’ capsules of the Sept. 11 victims...

Starry Skies Above Santa Monica

Interfaith Leader To Speak Here
Kim Bobo, a national recognized interfaith leader, will speak on the role of religious leaders and congregations in the struggle for economic and social justice...

Farmers Market Report: One Hit Wonders
Can we focus here? With all the hundreds (we once counted 330 different items) of California-grown produce for sale at a typical farmers’ market...