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The Culver City Council this week approved zoning changes which would allow for the conversion of two motels on Sepulveda Boulevard into emergency shelters and transitional housing for the homeless. The zoning codes were amended in conjunction with the city's grant application for the Project Homekey, a state program that supports the acquisition of hotels, motels and other properties to house people experiencing homelessness in California, city officials said. If Culver City does receive this...
February 28 is the deadline businesses to file for the annual business license tax certificate. All associations, organizations, clubs, and societies which offer goods, materials, commodities, wares, merchandise, or services for sale to the public in Culver City and all professions, crafts, trades, occupations and callings of every kind and nature which are carried on for profit in Culver City are required to obtain a business tax certificate within 30 days of starting business. Business taxes a...
The Santa Monica Democratic Club and the Culver City Democratic Club will host (via zoom) a Sheriff Candidate Debate on February 23rd at 8 PM. The current Sheriff Alex Villanueva will face numerous opponents in his quest to get reelected. The primary will take place on Jun 6. The California general election will take place on November 8. Alex Villanueva, Eric Strong, Cecil Rhambo, Eli Vera, and Robert Luna have confirmed they will attend....
Los Angeles County voters have "a complete lack of faith" in the city of Los Angeles and their county to address the homelessness crisis. That's the consensus of six focus groups, according to a coalition of civic leaders who released the results of a study Thursday that addressed the important issues of the upcoming local elections in June and November. "There is an absolute, total, complete, without exception, lack of faith in city and county government to address homelessness," said public...
Karen Bass, Culver City's congressional representative, will have to defeat a large field of candidates to become the next mayor of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles City Clerk's office said that 27 candidates – including Bass -- have filed paperwork to run for LA mayor in the June 7 election. Saturday was the deadline for candidates to file their declaration of intention to run for that post. But not all candidates will automatically end up on the ballot. During the next 25 days, candidates will g...
Last week four Culver City high school varsity teams entered the prestigious CIF Southern Section playoffs and only one team made it through the first round, girls' basketball. Boys' basketball, girls water polo and boys' soccer were eliminated last week. The girls head basketball coach Julian Anderson said he had a special group of girls in September of last year. "It feels good, making it to the second round of the CIF playoffs," said Anderson in a phone interview last Tuesday. "This...
The Los Angeles Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday in Super Bowl LVI, 23-20 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. It was the second Super Bowl Championship for the Rams organization, the other coming from the 1999 St. Louis Rams. It was also the second Super Bowl Championship for the City of Los Angeles. The 1983 Los Angeles Raiders won Super Bowl XVIII, beating the Washington Redskins. The Bengals earned their place in the Super Bowl by upsetting the Kansas City Chiefs three week ago on the...
Priceless! The Los Angeles Rams 23-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, was well-worth the six-year effort since owner Stan Kroenke brought the team back to Southern California. It was worth more than the multi-billion dollars he has invested into the Los Angeles area. It was for the players, the coaches, the front office and more importantly... for the fans who have waited since 1967 for the team to win its first Super Bowl in Los Angeles. "It's...
Written by: Ashley Griffin Joan Bayley, classical dancer, and principle choreographer/choreographic assistant during MGM's Golden Era passed away on January 5th 2022, just shy of her 102nd birthday. Don't know who she is? Neither do a lot of people. And that needs to change. Often called "The Greatest Dance Teacher There Ever Was," the musical theater and dance world was forever changed for the better because of Joan. Joan was born on May 23rd 1920. A classical ballet dancer trained by Muriel...
By The LA Zoo Looking for a wild way to celebrate Valentine's Day this year? Show your love with a gift that helps save endangered species and symbolically ADOPT an animal at the Los Angeles Zoo! All ADOPT packages include a personalized adoption certificate and a beautiful photo factsheet of your chosen animal. Plus, ADOPTions at $50 or higher will include a paper-framed 4x6 in. color photograph of an adorable Gerenuk nuzzle! All our resident animals are available for ADOPTion, and all gifts are fully tax-deductible! Proceeds support...
"Our business is currently off by over 50%. I can't imagine how much this will hurt us going forward…" By David Houston, Owner, Barneys Beanery. First of all, thank you (to DTSM) for all your help during these last two years of the pandemic. Unfortunately, we have now been dealt another business threatening blow by the city. We've been notified that the city intends to demo parking lot 3 and rebuild it as a homeless structure. This will be devastating to our business as well as every other business on 3rd Street Promenade. First of all, this ta...
By David Ganezer, Observer Staff Writer K-9 Jack is an explosives expert at moving and static explosives; a fine distinction we'll explain in a moment. We met the yellow Labrador and his trainer, Officer Elaina Hassan, playing catch on the lawn in front of the Santa Monica Courthouse. "We got him on a federal grant," explained Hassan, Jack's full time trainer. "He's already found two guns on the Promenade, and one gun on the Santa Monica Pier. Not to mention numerous suspicious packages," she sa...
By Alita Arose, Observer Staff Writer Due to an increase in both traffic and demand during the super bowl, anti-trafficking organizations are working double time to increase city wide awareness and efforts to combat the supply of there being underage girls and boys for sale. Republican and Democratic conventions, along with car trade shows are also events which inspire increased momentum from these human rights organizations. Theresa Flores, founder of SOAP (standing for Save Our Adolescents...
As background, I have lived in Santa Monica for almost 50 years and served on the Board of Friends of Sunset Park neighborhood group for over 10 years in the 1990’s and 2000’s. Back then, we felt that developers might overrun the city with projects to the detriment of the residents. Never could I have imagined the current state of Santa Monica. Until January 11, 2022, I had never attended a community meeting about a development (Zoom or Live) that limited the time and amount of people in attendance, started late, ended early and had sound iss...
City Rejects Vaccine Mandates 2/8/22: Santa Monica will not require that indoor restaurants and other businesses, require vaccines in order to enter their businesses. After City Staff presented a study stating that indoor vaccine mandates were unnecessary, Councilmembers agreed that the measure was not necessary at this time. Chief Resilience Officer Lindsay Call, who delivered the staff presentation, said that an expanded mandate is not recommended for SM because vaccination rates high in town. Call stated that there is a lack of data...
