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Responding to a well-orchestrated campaign to “Protect Culver City Renters,’” the City Council voted 4-1 this week to move forward on a 12-month rent freeze. At Monday night’s meeting that stretched till 1 a.m., the council rebuffed local apartment owners, directing staff to draft a rent-freeze ordinance with a 3% cap on rent increases. The Council is expected to vote on the proposed ordinance in August. Councilman Daniel Lee -- who took part in a rally in support of renters outside City Ha...
With the construction work at West LA College and the lack of a suitable location, the Culver City Fireworks Show that the Culver City Exchange Club has put on for many years had to be cancelled. Not to despair many communities in Los Angeles will be hosting great fireworks displays. Here are a few you and your family can see: The 13th Annual Fourth of July Parade begins on Main Street at 9:30am in Santa Monica. Santa Monica no longer offers a fireworks show, however Independence Day is filled...
POP SK8, California’s first themed pop-up outdoor roller-skating rink opens in Culver City on Saturday, July 6 at Westfield Culver City (Westfield Culver City, 6000 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230) on Saturday, July 6 and runs through Sunday, August 4 after successful runs in Valencia and Woodland Hills (still running until June 30 in Woodland Hills). Open daily POP SK8 is a full-service outdoor roller rink created and produced by Ann Potenza. Potenza has produced and managed many family-friendly live events in Los Angeles including T...
CRE Outreach is presenting the World Premiere of POINT OF EXTINCTION, a Science Fiction Political Thriller written by Cosette Ruesga and David Shecter featuring original songs by Laurie Grant. The production is directed by Greg Shane, Artistic Director of CRE Outreach and performed by Theatre by the Blind, the only blind theater company in the country featuring actors doing the improbable with great skill, and by the gifted musicians with autism from Rex & Friends. Performances take place from F...
Summer breezes… an intimate courtyard… free parking… and great music. Escape to Culver City for the 2019 Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival. Boulevard Music presents 6 free concerts on Thursday evenings at 7 pm from July 11 through August 15 in the palm-lined Dale Jones Courtyard of Culver City City Hall. Curated by producer Gary Mandell of Culver City’s Boulevard Music, Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival offers something for everyone: The sounds of Americana/Bluegrass from Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand (July 11); Argent...
The Culver City Democratic Club will celebrate Independence Day with a picnic at Blanco Park located at 5687 Sawtelle Blvd Culver City on July 4 from 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM. Bring your own food to be put onto the barbecue and a dish to share. The Club supplies the watermelon, ice, cold drinks, charcoal for the barbecue. In the spirit of our Club’s Green Dream pledge, please bring your own reusable plates, cups, and cutlery. You can visit their website at http://culvercitydemocraticclub.com and find us on Facebook!...
Rita Wilson, actress turned singer, and Italian living legend of the classical-song world, Andrea Bocelli, both made separate appearances recently in the intimate, 200-seat Clive Theatre at The Grammy Museum for a Q & A and performance hosted by Executive Director Scott Goldman. Wilson, native of Los Angeles and also wife of actor Tom Hanks who was in the audience supporting his beloved, was there to discuss her new album Halfway To Home (March 2019), her fourth studio album. Even though she...
By Sterling Roberts Having been in the art and framing business for 25 years, Cathy Seidman has witnessed the downfall of art. Cathy, and her sister, Connie, own the Seidman Gallery in Culver City. When asked how she feels about the way art is going, Cathy replied that she was pessimistic. She claims that there are two sides of the downfall of art: when regular people began putting art in their homes and when the television took the place of art above the fireplace. As experts in decorating home...
California’s population was thought to be on January 1, 2019; 39,927,315 from the Department of Finance. California took the first stop to regulate companies who sell your information last year with a law that gives people the right to “Opt Out” of having their data collected and allows the people to ask companies to delete data collected. Did you know California Department of Tax and Fee Administration publishes every quarter the top 500 sales and use Tax Delinquencies? And from Culver City....
According to the National Education Association’s latest figures, New York State’s average spending on its K-12 students is about $20,000 per student and its average teachers’ salary is $77,957. California’s average spending per student is around $12,000 and its average teacher salary is $72,842. By comparing each state’s per student expenditures with its average teacher salary, it shows that California’s teachers are taking a much larger portion of what their state is spending on education for their average salary than New York’s teac...
Riding a first-half wave as Major League Soccer's leader in the Supporters Shield race for league's best record, Los Angeles Football Club is ready to resume its 2019 MLS campaign on the road. The Western Conference last-place Colorado Rapids host LAFC this Friday night, June 28, at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado, several miles north of Denver. LAFC reinforced its winning hand this past Monday exercising its contract option on 22-year old midfielder, Latif Blessing,...
The NBA draft is rarely going to produce instant stars. The goal is to acquire cheap labor that will fill out the roster, with the hope that the players can develop into stars or solid role players. Most NBA teams use the draft to build the roster into a playoff team and will try to add a superstar through free agency to become a championship team. The Clippers are that example. The Lakers are the opposite, acquiring superstars to win now and filling the roster out with role players and...
Culver City junior catcher on the girls' softball team, Ashley Baizer was named to the All-CIF Division 4 team. The Centaurs had a deep run into the CIF playoffs thanks to players like Baizer. The Culver City high school varsity football team is currently having an outstanding summer passing league season. The Centaurs have won several tournaments and they will be hosting their own tournament Saturday, July 13. The LAFC of the professional soccer league (MLS) continues lead the league in points...
Going into last year Culver City High realized that with the talent they possessed, all they needed was a good, solid performance from their new starting quarterback, Zevi Eckhaus, to have a big shot at winning the 2018 CIF crown. Eckhaus was replacing only the second three-year starting quarterback at Culver City High since 2002 in Jonathan Martin, the second all time passing yardage leader in school history (over 8,000 yards). The other three-year starter was arguably the best quarterback in C...
The Los Angeles Rams made it to the top of the professional football world when they played in the Super Bowl in February. Now they are making super impressions in the Southern California communities, hosting football clinics, school improvement projects and many other worthwhile events that benefit kids in the greater Los Angeles area. The latest clinic and school improvement events took place in Inglewood and East Los Angeles. Led by community affairs staff members Jonathan Franklin and Zach...
