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The Recipe Spot Independence Day Coleslaw At the ripe old age of 237, Happy Birthday, America! Also known as Independence Day, next Thursday, July 4, America celebrates its independence from the ‘Mother Country,’ laying claim to be a free and independent nation. Celebrating the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, which was signed on July 4, 1776, the historic document set America free from the iron-grip that the British Empire had on the colonists. The ruckus bet...
CCUSD Deficit Shrinks Like Culver City’s own budget, the 2013-2014 budget for the Culver City School Board, approved at the Board’s meeting Tuesday night, is a much better-looking budget than in recent years, especially in regard to the deficit. “Give [CCUSD Superintendent] David LaRose some credit,” said Assistant Superintendent of Finance Mike Reynolds. “He locked us into a room and wouldn’t let us out until [our efforts] had borne some fruit.” Reynolds noted that CCUSD began the fiscal ye...
Starbucks Closes in Culver Center With the opening of the new Starbucks at Washington and Sepulveda Blvds., the popular Starbucks at Washington and Overland in the Culver Center has been shuttered. Starbucks official announcement said that they did not renew their lease. The location was the former site of the popular Ships Restaurant, a fixture in Culver City for generations. When Ships closed a decade ago local longtime residents lamented the loss. Starbucks is also located in the Washington Building in downtown Culver Cit...
Los Angeles Clippers long-time Vice President of Communications Joe Safety has resigned the team announced this week. Safety just completed his 20th season with the organization, where he acted as the primary spokesman and coordinator of all aspects of public and media relations. The West Virginia native and graduate of West Virginia University started with the Clippers in 1993 after serving as the Director of Media Relations of the New York Yankees and the 1979 World Series Champion Pittsburgh Pirates. Safety also worked for the public...
Rivers Becomes Clippers’ Coach Glen (Doc) Rivers had three years and $21 million remaining on his contract to coach the Boston Celtics. But when it became obvious the Celtics were going to enter a rebuilding phase next season Rivers wondered if he wanted to be a part of that plan. He had coached the Celtics to the 2008 NBA championship, and other than Phil Jackson he would be the highest profile coach available if he sought to escape his Boston contract. Rivers was granted permission to d...
Sports Columnist Five years ago a vision and insight awakened in Coach Mika's mind. Slowly, with trepidation, and humility, he slowly built the routine and practice of the game in Ocean Park, Venice Beach. He attracted players from Pepperdine, Santa Monica College, Harvard and Stanford. This was all possible thanks to his determination to sustain old school techniques which were established in the 1980's and 1990's, back in the days when the whole world knew the center of international beach vol...
Fireworks Show Cancelled Because of renovation of the football stadium at Culver City High School the 48th annual fireworks show has been cancelled for this year. Sponsored by the Culver City Exchange Club the club has already announced it will be back next year with a bigger and better show. Locally, fireworks can be viewed over the water in Marina Del Rey....
