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Students in the Culver City School District will not be able to attend school for in-person education next month. At a special session last week, the CC Board of Education voted to start the school year using only distance learning in the light of the recent spike in Covid-19 cases. With the board action, the local district joins a growing number of districts across the state that will resume online-only classes on August 18. Students will continue to learn at home as they did for the final...
It's must-watch sports TV and digital streaming. LAFC will take on Western Conference rival Seattle Sounders in the Round of 16 stage of the MLS is Back Tournament at 8:00 p.m. PDT, Monday night, July 27 at the ESPN Complex near Orlando, Florida. The Black and Gold advanced by tying the Portland Timbers last Thursday night, 2-2, in their third match of Group F qualifying. "Certainly we've tried to continue being a team that pushes games, takes initiative," said LAFC head coach Bob Bradley....
Despite the coronavirus pandemic that is currently ravaging parts of the United States, the NFL has announced that training camps will open on July 28th for all 32 NFL teams. For the NFL and the TV networks, this is a dollar and sense decision. There are billions of dollars at stake that make the cancellation of the NFL season almost impossible. To enable football in the fall, the NFL has decided to cancel all preseason games and limit the rosters to 80 players, down from the typical 90-man...
Elaine Behnken has been elected president and Monika Okker vice president of the Culver City Education Foundation board of directors. Behnken and Okker were elected by the CCEF's 14-member board in June to serve for the 2020-21 school year. Behnken is the parent of a Culver City High School graduate and the wife of Howard Behnken, technical theater teacher at CCHS. She served as president of the CCHS Academy of Visual and Performing Arts in 2014-16, was a member of the original "Friends of the Frost" committee, and co-produced the Frost Auditor...
Last Week , Cooper Hefner, media executive and son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, announced that he would be running for a California Senate seat in 2022. According to his exploratory committee, Hefner will be running as a Democrat in the 30th Senate District, which comprises of west-central Los Angeles, including downtown LA, Culver City, Inglewood, and Westmont. The incumbent, Senator Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles), will be term limited and has announced a run for a seat on the Los Angeles...
Experiencing the same surge as its neighbors, Culver City recorded a sharp uptick in the rate of Coronavirus infection, the County Health Department has announced. As of press time Wednesday, the number of local residents with Covid-19 rose to 299 cases, a 50% increase in the past month. Deaths related to Coronavirus totaled 27 in Culver City. According to Public Health officials, 66 cases of Covid-19 and 12 deaths were reported at Marina Pointe Healthcare and Subacute, 5 cases and 1 death at...
by Alyssa Erdley News with Attitude In a preview of good times to come should voters fail in November to revoke SB 10, California's No-Cash Bail law, a Huntington Park man stole over a dozen cars in twelve separate incidents - after being released from jail on his own recognizance each time. Emergency orders reducing bail to zero were instituted in Los Angeles County during the last week of March, while all non-essential businesses were ordered closed. A week later, the entire state followed suit. Concern was expressed about the likelihood of...
by Alyssa Erdley News with Attitude Between the State Senate and the State Assembly, nine bills are under consideration that would drastically change the balance of power regarding land use and zoning in California. Each bill seeks to solve the state's "housing crisis" with attacks against local zoning ordinances, in particular those that restrict some areas to single-family homes. Stripping local governments of their ability to decide their own physical appearance, these laws give the state government power to dictate higher density in every...
By Leonard “Guzz” Brophy IV We already know this year’s presidential campaign is a wild one, but how about at the local level? It could be big too. Twenty-two people as of Wednesday have pulled papers for potential campaigns for five open council seats. They have until August 7 to gather 30 signatures from Santa Monica residents to make their campaigns official. There will actually be two separate council elections. One for four seats, and all the incumbents elected to those seats in 2016--Gleam Davis, Terry O’Day, and Ted Wintere...
By Sarah Storkin Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order allowing barbershops to continue, as long as they operate outside. Coronaviruses are believed not to propagate outdoors. At Active Barbers on Wilshire and 25th Street, you can hear them as you walk by, since now their cuts are taking place outside. Owner Steven Moran set up canopies on the sidewalk on Wilshire Blvd. "We want to create a clean and comfortable setting for customers," he told FoxLA. Minus the barber chairs, which are...
The City of Santa Monica issued two updates to its local emergency declaration for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), extending the eviction moratorium for residential tenants and some commercial tenants, and further clarifying requirements for face coverings. Under a twenty-second supplement, Santa Monica’s eviction moratorium is extended to September 30, 2020 for residential tenants. This is consistent with state law. The extension is to August 31, 2020 for commercial tenants. A revised twentieth supplement clarifies the requirement that e...
SMPD arrested one Drew Miller for throwing "a full 40-ounce glass bottle at the back of the head of a peace officer during the civil unrest and rioting in the City of Santa Monica on May 31, 2020," wrote Lt. Joseph Cortez in a press release. "The large glass bottle shattered on the peace officer's helmet causing injury." Drew Miller and placed him under arrest for 245(c) of the California Penal Code – Assault with a deadly weapon upon a peace officer. Miller was transported to the Santa M...
Authorities on Thursday identified a homeless woman whose body was found on Venice beach, and continued trying to determine her cause of death. Miriam Montufar, 48, was pronounced dead near the 1800 block of Ocean Front Walk about 5:50 a.m. Tuesday, according to the coroner’s office and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff’s detectives were sent to the scene to investigate....
A protest was held in West Los Angeles on Tuesday, against the Azerbaijani army’s actions in Armenia on July 12. Demonstrators were asked to wear face-coverings. In the 1920s, Joseph Stalin redrew the USSR map and gave the region of Nagorno – Karabakh, or Artsakh as Armenians call it, to Soviet Azerbaijan, despite the fact that most of its population were Armenian. From 1991 to 1994, there was full-scale warfare, between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, which resulted in thousands of lives los...
The Dodgers opened the 2020 season Thursday evening, the stands filled with cardboard cutouts of fans. The game against the San Francisco Giants was nationally televised on ESPN. They plan to continue with games against the Giants on Friday (6:40 p.m. televised on SportsNet LA), Saturday (1:10 p.m. on FOX) and Sunday (7:08 p.m. on ESPN). Pregame is streamed on Dodgers social media. The team planned live player introductions and special ceremonies, which include gospel singer Keith Williams Jr....
by Corva Corvax A Logical Opinion In reading through the nine proposed laws sitting in our state legislature now, each of which would do its part to kill single-family housing and densify neighborhoods, the rationale for this concerted, ruthless effort to drastically change the very structure of our landscape and society is difficult to grasp. But we're game to try. The laws proposed are SB 902, SB 1120, SB 995, SB 1085, AB 725, AB 1279, AB 2345, AB 3040, and AB 3107. First of all, let's dispose of the idea the densification, land-control grab...
by Alyssa Erdley News with Attitude The State Legislature has been working hard to attempt to squeeze 1.8 million more units of housing into the state before 2029 by producing at least nine land-use proposals this year, each of which either enable, incentivize, or require cities to build more densely. Specifically, these bills end single-family-home neighborhoods. That is not an exaggeration. It is the stated goal of the proposed legislation. The authors of these bills and, presumably, the majority of state legislators who voted for them,...
Wesson for Supervisor Campaign amasses over half a million dollars in just over one month, cementing his front-runner status suspending all campaign activities for almost 3 months to focus on serving the community during the COVID-19 outbreak, Herb Wesson collected nearly $500,000 in the month of June alone. Wesson is running to replace termed-out LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas in this year’s open election. LA City Council President Emeritus Herb Wesson released the following statement: “I want to thank the hundreds of local lea...
My name is Melanie Shaevel, I'm the granddaughter of former Fromin's Deli and Marjan's owner, Maurice Solomon. I'm broken-hearted to write that my grandfather passed away on Tuesday after battling lung cancer, Parkinson's, and years of body pain. He is known all around Santa Monica and Brentwood as The Deli King, loved by so many. He could always be found behind the deli counter almost everyday of his life before retiring at age 79. But his license plate continued to read "The Deli King." My...
Colin Diaz, IOM President/CEO Culver City Chamber of Commerce LOS ANGELES (July 7, 2020) – Following Governor Newsom’s order to temporarily close indoor dining and operations for restaurants in 19 counties less than a month after allowing them to reopen, the Culver City Chamber joined the California Coalition for Safe Re-Opening, a coalition of Chambers of Commerce and business associations throughout the state. The coalition came together to formulate proposals for reopening California businesses in a logical and methodical manner that mai...
By Alyssa Erdley Observer Staff Writer The County of Los Angeles has ordered the immediate closure of almost every type of business that had been allowed to reopen during June. All indoor operations of gyms and fitness centers, offices of non-critical infrastructure sectors, places of worship, personal care services, hair salons, barbershops, and malls are now closed again. Basically, the only businesses allowed open are the "essential" services we were allowed to visit after March 19. Earlier...
The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles (The Foundation) today announced that it is redirecting the entirety of its 2020 institutional grantmaking into a two-phase plan focused on COVID-19 relief totaling $8.5 million. Formally titled the COVID-19 Response Grants, the program’s first phase concentrates on providing immediate relief to Los Angeles nonprofits in both the Jewish and general communities offering direct services to those impacted by the pandemic. The second phase will support Jewish nonprofits locally, as well as in Israel, f...
According to the dictionary a foundation is the lowest load-bearing part of a building and the basis on which ideals and beliefs rest. That's the best way to describe Brad Pye Jr. He was the foundation for so many people including myself. Pye died on July 5, after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 89 years old. He was their rock and he taught us to never give up. He taught us to fight hard for equal rights every day. He was a man of many talents but his number one talent was to...
On Thursday July 16 at 6 pm PT, a program entitled Finding Truths and Creating Art in Exile features Award-winning playwrights Iranian-American Sholeh Wolpé and Iranian Nassim Soleimanpour. Soleimanpour's most recent play Nassim will be performed in The Broad Stage 2020/21 season in April 2021. Guests playwright Nathalie Handal, poet Lory Bedikian Sholeh Wolpé and Nassim Soleimanpour will be moderated by actor/writer Sandra Tsing Loh. This new series of episodes brings together performing a...
by Nick Hamilton (@NickHamiltonLA) The Lakers suffered a tough blow when the team received the news that guard Rajon Rondo suffered a fractured thumb during practice last Sunday evening. The Lakers were already without guard Avery Bradley who opted out from joining the team due to health concerns, now they look to the next man up in order to complete their quest of obtaining a 17th championship. "Losing Rajon is a huge loss for our team, but we expect Rajon to be part of our playoff run," head coach Frank Vogel said on a zoom conference call...
