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Has it been a year already that some hacker stole personnel details of 30,000 employees at the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI? Someone was asleep at the switch. It was in 1908, a year after my dad was born, that the New York City’s Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance prohibiting women from smoking in public. Everybody remembers from their American History class President Rutherford B. Hayes, but did you remember in 1879 he signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court? Once again for the nin...
West Los Angeles College will be one of several sites where Los Angeles County voters can cast their March Election ballots early. The polls will be open from 8am to 4 pm on Saturday and Sunday, March 4 and 5 in the Fine Arts Building, Room 103. West is located at 9000 Overland Avenue (near Jefferson), Culver City 90230. Free parking is available in the adjacent parking structure. Visitors should enter on Overland, turn right on Albert Vera and go up the hill to the parking structure. The Fine Arts building is a few steps north of the parking...
The Culver City Woman's Club, a non-profit organization that supports a number of local charitable groups, is having a Spring Fiesta Fundraiser on Thursday, March 23 from 5 pm to 8 pm at Casa Sanchez Mexican Restaurant, 4500 S. Centinela Ave., Los Angeles 90066. There will be a fashion show, door prizes and a silent auction with free hors d'oeuvres & soft drinks and happy hour priced cocktails. The proceeds will benefit the Culver-Palms YMCA Summer Camp Program and will be funding scholarships for Culver City High graduating seniors. Admission...
Smart And Spicy I Could Host The OscarsBy Carole Bell It wouldn't be dumb, for one thing. Can you imagine? Picture an intelligent evening. Have you seen the BAFTAs? Impossible to duplicate Stephen Fry's charm, yet that could offer a compass of aspiration. With gracious wit polished cumulatively for over a decade, Fry sets the true black tie standard as he does the British Film And Television Academy proud. Funny enough, Jimmy Kimmel's chance in the barrel was just that – funny enough. R...
The Lakers used to play in Inglewood. Soon the Rams and Chargers will be playing in Inglewood. And then the Clippers? Stan Kroenke, who owns the Rams and has moved the team from St. Louis and is funding a multi-billion dollar stadium in Inglewood, has attended or sent representatives to several meetings with Clippers owner Steve Ballmer in recent weeks. They’ve talked about the Clippers building an arena in Inglewood and sharing parking with the Rams’facility. The Rams are scheduled to open the...
The Rams receiving approval to return to Los Angeles was named 2016’s top sports moment at the 12th Annual LA Sports Awards night at the Beverly Hilton. The LA Sports Awards are produced annually by the Los Angeles Sports Council to celebrate the greatest moments of the year in the Los Angeles/Orange County area. The Rams had played in the Los Angeles area for 48 years before moving to St. Louis prior to the 1995 NFL season. On January 12, 2016, team owners meeting in Houston voted 30-2 to approve the Rams’ application to relocate, ending the...
Currently in previews, the world premiere of Ngozi Anyanwu’s new play Good Grief will open at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City on Sunday, March 5 at 6:30 p.m. Directed by Patricia McGregor, Anyanwu also performs in Good Grief, which runs through March 26. This is the first of Anyanwu’s plays to receive a full professional production. The cast features, in alphabetical order, Dayo Ade, Wade Allain-Marcus, Ngozi Anyanwu, Marcus Henderson, Omozé Idehenre, Carla Renata and Mark Jude Sullivan. Scenic design is by Stepha...
