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The City of Los Angeles has in recent years lined the edges of Culver City with large projects dwarfing over the 40 foot height limit imposed by Culver City voters decades ago. Now comes a project so massive it could easily destroy the "small town" feel of Culver City. Crenshaw Subway Coalition and Friends of the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative have filed suit against San Francisco Bay Area real estate developer (CP V Cumulus) a subsidary of Carmel Partners and the Los Angeles City Council to...
A Culver City man was arrested this week on federal charges of economic espionage and violations of the Arms Export Control Act for his attempts to sell sensitive satellite information to a person he believed to be a foreign intelligence agent. U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker of the Central District of California, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, Assistant Director in Charge Deirdre Fike of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office and Special Agent John Rayho of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (...
Right in the heart of the classic motion picture studio district "Screenland" comes a revived art form of theatrical revue. With laughter, drama and song, this is the whacky world of "The Bucket List Actors. " It all started as a group of once were, or wanna be actors and performers, started meeting in Culver City two years ago. Carole Marie, a Chickasaw citizen, and long time Screen Actors Guild member, had an early morning dream about her digital camera she had used to make documentaries. It...
The Summer of '16 has been a busy but productive one for Culver City High football. The Centaurs reached the semifinals this past week in a seven-on-seven passing tournament hosted by Santa Fe High with about 40 local teams participating. They also made the semifinals the week before at a differently formatted seven-on-seven passing tournament hosted by El Rancho High. Culver had an excellent chance to make the finals but came up a few points short. For the Santa Fe Tournament there were three...
Walk With A Doc/Culver City, arrives this Saturday, July 16 at 8:45 a.m. begins at Veterans' Memorial Park near the Tennis Courts. Sarah Carpenter, MD, will speak for a few moments on two favorite subjects, "Sugar and Salt," followed by a warm-up with Culver-Palms Family YMCA Fitness Trainer Brandon Webb. Then it's off for an hour's walk-at-your-own-pace, ending up back at the Park. The international program was started by a Midwestern cardiologist encouraging all to get up and move and leave...
The Clippers have retained four prominent reserves who had become free agents but will be without two who signed elsewhere. Jamal Crawford, Austin Rivers, Wesley Johnson and Luke Mbah a Moute are coming back. However, Jeff Green signed with Orlando and Cole Aldrich signed with Minnesota. The Clippers concentrated on Crawford, giving the 36-year-old guard a three-year contract for $42 million and Rivers, who will receive $35 million for three years. These two are outstanding substitutes for...
Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan are future NBA Hall Of Fame players. Both have retired and both are properly being lauded for their accomplishments. But they are different kinds of people. Bryant embraced his last of 20 Laker seasons by agreeing to an elaborate tour where he willingly met with the media in his final game in every city. Duncan retired Monday after 19 seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. He treated his final season like the other 18. He played unselfishly, said goodbye and didn’t e...
4th of July Fireworks Show! - The Culver City Exchange Club’s 50th Annual 4th of July Fireworks Show was held at West Los Angeles College on the evening of Monday, July 4. . Featuring: o Garden State Fireworks - With more than 125 years of experience entertaining crowds from the White House and Washington D.C.’s Capitol Mall to the Super Bowl and New York Harbor o The New Directions for Vets Choir - A finalist on TV’s “America’s Got Talent” o Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps - Original mu...
On Tuesday night Culver City Police Department closed all westbound lanes of Slauson Avenue at Bristol Parkway, Eastbound Slauson Avenue was down to one lane and Bristol Parkway was closed at Hannum Avenue while police investigated a traffic accident between a pedestrian and a Porsche. The unidentified victim was reportedly in his 50s. He is expected to survive. The accident was reported at 11:03 p.m. Police determined the crash to be accidental. No arrests were made and police state no drugs or alcohol were involved. CCPD reported all lanes...
Eric Mitchell, a Theatrical Production Arts major from Culver City, has been named to the Dean's List in Ithaca College's School of Humanities and Sciences for the spring 2016 semester. From day one, Ithaca College prepares students for success through hands-on experience with internships, research and study abroad. Its integrative curriculum builds bridges across disciplines and uniquely blends liberal arts and professional study. Located in New York's Finger Lakes region, the College is home...
Elaine Goodyear's celebration of life will be held at Grace Lutheran Church, 4427 Overland Avenue, Culver City, this coming Saturday, July 16 at 2 pm. In lieu of flowers donation can be made to a secured website, gofundme.com/elainegoodyear....
If you are a basketball fan and you can’t make it to Brazil for the Summer Olympics you can still see the USA teams in action here in Los Angeles. The women’s team will play a game against another American team Monday July 25 at USC’s Galen Center at 7 p.m. The men’s team will play China on Sunday, July 24 at Staples Center at 5 p.m....
A friend once stood with me inside a closet. I forget right now why we were in the closet. Oh! She was showing me her breasts, and didn't want to do it out in the open convention room. She wanted me to see that she had breasts, since when we first met, she had been a man. Her life, and the things that happened to her, were hard enough. Yet thinking back on that moment, I realize now, it would have been even harder had she also been black. We think some truths are universal, applicable to...
The Culver Volleyball Club 16-year-olds coached by Tanner Siegal came out of the loser's bracket and avenged a loss to an Oregon team to win the 8th Annual Summer Soiree Volleyball Tournament in Anaheim, 25-19, 25-22. Six Culver City teams ranging in ages 12-18 entered, but by the end of the week the only local team that remained was 16-Tanner in the 64 team field. 16-Tanner was put in the losers bracket by Spitfire Volleyball Club from Oregon. Culver went on to win the rest of its games against...
If you follow the history of basketball a few things are perfectly clear. If your team expects to win a championship you need at least two superstars to complete the journey to the top. The Lakers had Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson and Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant. The Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA have Nneka Ogwumike and Candace Parker. Like any championship team every player on that roster plays an important role in that team's success. All 12 women on the Sparks roster are...
Once again, Woody Allen sweeps us up into the magic, elegance, glamour and excitement of an era long past with CAFÉ SOCIETY. But that's where the "once again" part ends as Allen pushes himself beyond his patented funny and delivers a film with emotionally resonant characters (but still dealing with myriad neuroses) and a story as rich as the film's visuals. Filled with bittersweet poignancy, heartbreak and humor, a tinge of melancholy laced with a longing for days gone and a wistful wondering...
If you're relatively new to Southern California you probably won't get much out of this column. But if you're an old timer you might want to be reminded of the accomplishments of Bud Furillo, who covered sports in his unique way here for about 60 years before he died in 2006. For a long time Jim Murray was the gifted sports columnist of the Los Angeles Times and Furillo was the dynamic sports editor of the now defunct Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. Besides presiding over the Herald's sports...
