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To be a gnome or not be a gnome; that is the question. And the answer, my friends? Go “gnomal” with the most “GNOMETASTIC” film of the year (and my pick for Best Animated Feature at Oscar 2012) - GNOMEO & JULIET!! If I died today, it would be with a smile on my face and a song in my heart after seeing GNOMEO & JULIET. I smiled, laughed, teared up, got goosebumps, smiled some more, laughed a lot more, tapped my toes, danced in my seat and had a grin from ear to ear the entire time...and when the...
The whistle just blew this week, so there’s still time to join “Itty Bitty Sports” at the Culver-Palms Family YMCA. Session 1 is Mondays & Wednesdays February 7 to March 2 (8 classes) 4 p.m. to 4:45. for boys and girls ages 3-5 years. This program is designed to ensure children have lots of fun while learning the basic skills used in a variety of sports such as soccer, football, with the right amount of hand and foot-to-eye coordination, teamwork, and sportsmanship. For more details call Eric Lane, Director of Sports and Recreation at the C...
While it's easy this time of year to just daydream about next year's garden, there are some chores to be done. Late winter is the perfect time for one of my favorite garden tasks: pruning fruit trees. Most gardeners are nervous about making cuts to their precious trees, and, consequently, they prune only a little, and poorly, or not at all. However, pruning isn't rocket science. You just need to follow some basic principles and get out there and start cutting. Pruning New and Old Trees When pruning young trees, the goal is to create a strong...
A packed Board room cheered loudly Tuesday night as the Culver City School Board voted to amend the interim superintendent agreement with Patricia Jaffe, enabling her to be considered for the permanent superintendent post. The 3-1-1 vote (Karlo Silbiger voted against the amendment and Patricia Siever abstained) came after numerous emails, phone calls, and comments by a number of speakers who gave their enthusiastic support to Jaffe. But not everyone thought the amendment was the right thing to...
The ever popular Tito’s Tacos reopened Tuesday morning after a near tragic crash on Saturday afternoon. An elderly female driver, Marie Stathus, accidently put her car in reverse and hit the gas pedal. She crashed into the wall at Tito’s at such a high rate of speed she knocked a large hole in the wall and moved giant refrigerators across the floor. The refrigerators stopped the vehicle saving approximately 40 employees and over 300 customers from being injured. Repair crews along with city insp...
Culver City loves its summer concert series and its citizens appreciate the work done by longtime producer Gary Mandell. But despite a show of support by speakers in public comment at the Redevelopment Agency’s Monday night meeting, the Agency did not make an absolute commitment to having him back as producer for the 2011 concert series. The Agency’s options for producing the festival included suggestions from the events subcommittee of the Cultural Affairs Commission: shortening the existing fe...
Despite an early arrest in the case, police have ruled that person out as a suspect in last Friday’s murder of 29-year-old Michael John Baldwin in the 550 block of Margaret Avenue in the Del Rey neighborhood bordering Culver City. Baldwin, who was driving a stolen Lexus IS300, was shot several times including once in the neck while in the vehicle. Shell casings were found in the street near the shooting. The Lexus was reported stolen two weeks ago in West Los Angeles. Los Angeles Police Officers responded to a shooting call at 7 a.m. last F...
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the J. Paul Getty Trust are pleased to announce their joint acquisition of art and archival materials by or associated with Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the great photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. The vast majority of the acquisition comes in the form of a generous gift from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, and the remainder from funds provided by The David Geffen Foundation and the J. Paul Getty Trust. This significant acquisition establishes Los Angeles as the center...
“West Los Angeles College was in no way aware of, or involved with the recent drilling of a new oil well by Plains Exploration and Production (PXP),” stated John Oester, WLAC’s Vice President of Operations. The college was told that the drilling began on January 28, 2011 on property directly adjacent to the new campus road prompting several of the college’s neighboring home owner associations to question if there was a connection between the road construction and the new well construction. The college’s new road, College Boulevard, will open...
There will be the temporary closure of eastbound National Boulevard from Washington Boulevard to Wesley Street in Culver City on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Traffic Impacts: • Westbound traffic will not be affected. • Eastbound National Boulevard will be closed, and traffic will be detoured to Washington Boulevard, to La Cienega Boulevard, and back to Jefferson Boulevard. • Directional signage, electronic message boards and flaggers will be used to safely detour and direct drivers around the construction zones in order to minimize the disru...
Westfield Culver City ran an “Enter to Win” promotion during the 2010 Holiday Season to give away a new Chevy Cruze valued at over $25,000. Thousands of eager shoppers filled out forms in the center as well as on the Westfield website and on the Westfield Culver City Facebook page in hopes of winning. On February 1 the Westfield Team awarded the winner of the contest, Amber Tidmore of Inglewood, with her new car outside the Grand Entrance at Westfield Culver City. Amber’s entire family came...
The Culver City High School Booster Club will present its annual “Casino Night” fundraiser on Saturday, February 26. The event will be held at Vets Auditorium from 6:30 .m. to 11:30. Advanced ticket sales are now available for $20/person and can be purchased from any booster club member, school athletic coach, or on-line (www.cchsboosters.com). The ticket price will increase to $25/person at the door. All money raised from this occasion goes towards Culver High clubs and athletics. The historic auditorium will be transformed into a Las Vegas ca...
The Culver City Rock and Mineral Club invites you to join them at their next monthly meeting where Brett Johnson from the Oxnard Gem & Mineral Society will present “On the Hunt for Meteorites”. The presentation will explore Extraterrestrial neighbors by looking at meteorites and how to best find one of your own. Culver City Rock and Mineral Club meeting is held in the Multi-Purpose Room in the back of the Veterans Memorial Building at 4117 Overland Avenue at the Corner of Culver Boulevard. General meetings are free and open to non-members, Mon...
A highlight for me of this month’s NBA all-star game at Staples Center will be the presence of Kevin Love. The third year member of the Minnesota Timberwolves returns here after playing one year at UCLA. You see, I saw tapes of Love’s high school games in Oregon and drew upon my many years of traveling with Laker teams to determine that this was a special player. I saw he could score, rebound and pass and had the instincts to do each one at the right time. I expected a lot, and Love led the Bru...
Throughout my sportswriting career I’ve believed coaches know more about their teams than anyone in the media. That’s because they see their players and assistant coaches every day and we don’t. There are times, however, when I question something a coach has done. That’s normal for a probing journalist. And today is one of those days UCLA’s football team has been 4-8 the last two years. After three seasons Coach Rick Neuheisel has failed to turn the program around. And in recent months th...
Ever since he was 10 years old, watching college football games on TV, Ijumaa Armstrong wanted to play football for the University of Hawaii. Armstrong got that wish granted last week when the Culver City High safety signed a letter-of-intent to play for the Rainbow Warriors. Armstrong, one of the Centaurs’ top defensive players the past two seasons, said he’s excited about heading off to the island. “Hawaii was my first choice all along,” Armstrong said. “I grew up watching them as a little kid. I love it there. It’s an island paradise....
Culver City High boys’ basketball coach Jonathan Chapman wasn’t all that surprised with how last week went for the Centaurs. Culver City lost both of its games last week, Ocean League contests to Santa Monica and Inglewood, and Chapman had foreshadowed it all by saying as the week began that the biggest way to get his team to recognize its complacent play was if “we lose both games.” So after a 59-58 loss to Santa Monica at home and a 61-49 loss at Inglewood, Chapman was ready to meet with his t...
