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The Culver City Council this week held a joint session with the Planning Commission to a discuss the controversial topic of "exclusionary zoning practices" in the residential areas. The highly-publicized Wednesday night's meeting drew more than 150 speakers and some 500 pages of correspondence from residents who oppose the elimination of single-family (R-1) zoning or any changes in residential zoning and others who decried the lack of affordable housing in Culver City. The public participation...
In an obvious setback to the Me-too movement the Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court overturned the sexual assault conviction of Bill Cosby this morning citing prosecutorial mistakes. Cosby was serving a 3–10-year sentence. It is expected he was released from prison Wednesday afternoon. Prosecutors have not said if they plan to retry him....
On Sunday, June 27 at 10 am there will be a bike ride to celebrate Gay Pride Month which will start at Syd Kronenthal Park, located at 3459 McManus Avenue to City Hall for a rally at noon. You can RSVP, please by going to /ccpride.splashthat.com/...
Sweetgreen Inc., the trendy salad restaurant chain headquartered in Culver City, announced this week that it had confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States. In a statement released on Monday, the company said it has submitted a draft registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO. "The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined," the company said. The initial public...
Andrew Teuthorn from Culver City, CA, graduated with a Master of Science (Chemistry) from the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University. More than 4,800 students graduated with bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate degrees from Ohio University for spring semester 2021. The graduates represented many areas of the United States and an abundance of countries, including: Bangladesh, Canada, China, Ghana, India, Japan and the United Kingdom....
A magnitude 3.4 earthquake rumbled through southern California on Wednesday afternoon, centered just northeast of Los Angeles International Airport. The mainshake which hit at 5:11 pm PST, was felt across a wide area of southern California, East to downtown LA and North to Van Nuys. USGS seismographic data showed that the earthquake was felt over a wide area of Los Angeles County. The Santa Monica Police Dept and Fire Depts reported no damages or injuries connected to the earthquake. Minor...
Bought a good book lately? The Culver City Woman’s Club is having a fundraising Book and Jewelry sale on Friday and Saturday, July 16 and 17 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at 9516 Cattaraugus Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90034. There will be over 1,000 books from all genres, as well as a big selection of jewelry Paperback books will be $1.00 and hardback books will be $2.00. There will also be another yard sale on July 30 and 31 at the same address from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. On those days, there will be household items, clothing, and other types of things f...
The monthly virtual meeting of the Culver City Democratic Club will be on Wednesday, July 14,2021 at 7 p.m. Our program will be "Hot Planet Summer" with climate activist leaders including Igor Treub of the California Democratic Party Environmental Caucus, David Haake of the West LA Sierra Club, and Keren Sookne of Citizens' Climate Lobby will present their organizations' work, describe how you can help, and take your questions. Members will receive the zoom registration link automatically....
It has been a long time since Los Angeles was the center of the football world, but the 2021 season promises a return to football glory for the Greater Los Angeles area. Los Angeles County will add a new team to go along with the teams that are already here. The Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson will be the home field for San Diego State Aztec football team in the fall of 2021 and the new SoFi Stadium will be the home for the NFL’S Super Bowl to finish the 2021 season. San Diego State U...
With just over four weeks to go before the 2020 Olympic Opening Ceremony, the 2020 U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Team was unveiled this morning in front of a nationally televised audience on NBC’s TODAY show. Team selections for the six-time defending Olympic gold medalists USA were made by the USA Basketball Women’s National Team Player Selection Committee and pending approval by the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee. Headlining the team are longtime USA National Team members Sue Bird (Seattle Storm) and Diana Taurasi (Phoenix Mercu...
When the Culver City varsity boys' basketball season ended on June 1, in the CIF playoffs quarterfinals a lot of people thought the program had gained a lot of respect after years of average and below average seasons. The 2021 Centaurs won the tough Bay league with a record of 8-2 and into the playoffs. They made it to the third round before losing to Crean Lutheran of Irvine, a team that made it to the championship game in Division 2A. Crean Lutheran was one of the best teams in the state, so...
On June 21, 1997, Hall of Famers Lisa Leslie and Rebecca Lobo headlined the first game of WNBA history when the New York Liberty defeated the Los Angeles Sparks in front of 14,000 fans at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood. Since then, the league has undergone several revolutions, and a new generation of athletes has assumed the mantle of carrying the game forward. The Sparks celebrated the inaugural matchup of the upstart league when they faced the Liberty on Father's Day. But, like then, the Liberty thrillingly defeated the Sparks in front...
USC's Isaiah Jewett made the U.S. Olympic Team by bettering his school record and taking second in the men's 800m final at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials being held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. today (June 21). Jewett took second in the U.S. 800m final with a time of 1:43.85 to secure a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team. Jewett's time broke his own school record (1:44.68) which he set on the same track 10 days ago in winning the NCAA men's 800m title. The Los Angeles native's...
Michael Norman won the U.S. men's 400m title and Allyson Felix took second in the women's 400m final at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials being held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. today (June 20). The pair make the U.S. track and field team for the 2020 Olympics which will be held in Tokyo, Japan from July 23-Aug. 8. Norman (USC 2018) won the men's 400m title with a season-best time of 44.07. After just being bumped from the lead with about 90m remaining by Michael Cherry...
Dear Editor, I am a member of the General Plan Advisory Committee (“GPAC”), but I am writing as a 27-year resident of Culver City and a native Southern Californian. We bought our single-family home in 1994 after the Northridge earthquake when property prices tumbled. This is our starter as well as our forever home. I have watched Culver City politics regress from dealing with local issues, concentrating on infrastructure, encouraging business growth, providing health and safety, and pro...
The City Council this week approved a resolution establishing a registration fee for residential rental units in Culver City. The fee -- $167 per unit per year -- was "based upon the reasonable costs associated with the administration and enforcement of the city's residential rent control program and tenant protection program," adopted by the Council last September, city officials said. Some councilmembers said the new fee will severely affect "mom-and-pop" landlords but others contended that...
Three high school students from Culver City have been chosen to participate in the 17th annual GRAMMY Camp® program., operated by the GRAMMY Museum. Carter Long-Coffee, Allyn Matheson and Jasani Pitts will be among 81 talented high school students from 67 U.S. cities who will take part in the annual summer camp. All Time Low, Echosmith, and The War and Treaty will be this year's guest artists at the camp; they will discuss their career paths and help students prepare for the music industry. The signature music industry camp for high school stud...
California Should Allow Vets, Others to Use Psychedelic drugs Just like prohibition of the sale and consumption of alcohol in the 1920’s gave rise to the likes of Al Capone and American organized crime, our multi-decade war on drugs is a failure and has resulted mainly in empowering inner city gangs and turning our southern neighbor (Mexico) into a permanent war zone. We are already seeing that, with the decriminalization of cannabis, illegal-drug-related crime is disappearing, appropriate r...
Southern California Hospital officials this week called the new "hero pay" mandate as an "arbitrary and inequitable" law and expressed hopes the Culver City Council will revisit the issue before its takes effect later month. Two weeks, the Council approved by a 3-2 vote the $5 per hour bonus pay for clinicians, nurses, aides, technicians, janitorial and housekeeping staff, security guards, food services workers, laundry workers, pharmacists, and non-managerial administrative staff at the local h...
