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The world-famous Zuckerman ChamberPlayers, led by violin legend Pinchas Zukerman, made their Los Angeles debut at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica for a two-night engagement last weekend. Zukerman, an Israeli native who’s been one of the world’s leading violin soloists and a respected international conductor for almost half a century, has gathered together four of the world’s most promising young performers to serve as his protégés and perform alongside him. They are violinist Jessica Linneba...
For Earth Day 2013, the Associate Student Organization of West Los Angeles College is sponsoring an Electronic Waste Collection event on campus. The community is invited to bring their old and non-functional cell phones, televisions, computers, calculators, digital clocks, and other electronic devices to West on Saturday, April 20 or Monday, April 22 from 9 am to 3pm. People who drop off electronic items will be entered in to a raffle to win a Google Nexus 7 Tablet. There will also be document shredding from 9 am to 11 am. West is located at 90...
Excitement is building for CicLAvia on Sunday, April 21 as we anticipate being able to welcome more than 10,000 participants to the Culver City Hub. Our event committee is hard at work at planning for the large number of visitors and everything that is needed - traffic control, signage, bike repair facilities, bike valet, first aid station, info booths and, least we forget, porta-potties. We plan on having live entertainment and all of our downtown restaurants and shops will be open for business. And business will be booming. The City of...
Have you seen on television all the commercials trying to lure California companies to New York and Michigan? As I recall my economics teacher used to say, "All the empirical evidence shows that raising a state's tax burden weakens its tax base." Recently there is so much going on that a volume could be written. We all know about Prop. 8 and the Supreme Court and Stockton's bankruptcy with their bondholders scheduled to receive approximately 17 cents on the dollar. For many of us the biggest news was a court ruling that private text messages,...
Lakers Honor A Very Good Guy -- Shaq When people find out I traveled with Laker teams for 23 years they often ask about the players’ personalities. They wonder how it is to be in the company of famous athletes on a regular basis. It would be like being close to any group of people. Some are good company, some would prefer that journalists didn’t exist. It would serve no purpose to reveal the ones who didn’t co-operate with the media. I prefer to focus on the good guys. Number One on my list...
The game of baseball is no different than the game of life in that history has a way of repeating itself. In fact, in baseball it’s expected. And for the Culver City High baseball team it stretched along Artesia Blvd. from Manhattan Beach two weeks ago to North High in Torrance last Wednesday, a foreboding location for their final non-league game before the 2013 Ocean League play began on Tuesday. The Centaurs again took a one-run lead into the bottom of the sixth inning on the road and once a...
