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Greg Krentzman, his wife, Sophie and their nine year old daughter Lola survived the terrorist attack in Nice, France as the terrorist drove a large refrigeration truck through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day, killing 84 and injuring more than 200. The family was on vacation. Krentzman, 52, and his daughter were both injured. The truck clipped Krentzman’s right leg, fracturing it in three places and crushing his foot. Lola suffered a broken ankle during the attack, He was taking pictures of the Bastille Day fireworks and never saw the truck c...
The Fox Hills Neighborhood Assoiation will be planting Junipers and cleaning the park on Saturday. July 30 from 9 am to noon. Gloves, Tools and Lunch will be provided. Meet at the benches by the playground. - Please RSVP via email - aboutfoxhills@yahoo.com For more information www.FHNACC.org If you have extra travel toiletries we are collecting them for the Culver City Homeless Commission. You also have the opportunity to buy a Culver City Centennial pin for $5 at lunch time....
C3 Sunshine Camp, a summer camp along with an after school program, was run by Camp Director Adan Pulido, who works under a contract with the Culver City Parks and Recreation Department. Dozens of parents with children in the program appeared before the city council on Monday to protest his abrupt firing by Parks and Recreation Dept. Director Dan Hernandez several weeks ago. Allegedly Pulido had a dispute with an unnamed city employee for using a storage room at the Stone House in Lindberg Park...
Want an escape from the conventions? Run, don't walk, to the Kirk Douglas Theatre to see "Recorded in Hollywood". You'll feel like dancing from ten seconds in; it's a sexy, catchy break. The music draws you in right away. And it's a good story: Before Motown and Chuck Berry, John Dolphin dreamed of opening a record store in Hollywood. He m ade appointments with leasing agents, but it was 1948, when Trump thinks it was great, and blacks couldn't rent in Hollywood. Dolphin opened his store...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor Speculation about Yasiel Puig's future with the Dodgers was strong enough for me to write about it last week. It turned out to be accurate. When the Dodgers flew to Colorado Monday to begin a series against the Rockies Puig wasn't with the team. The Dodgers had told him they would trade him by the Monday deadline or send him to the minor leagues, which they did Tuesday. Sources told me the Dodgers decided they needed more production from their right field...
A quiet little gem from "Orange Is The New Black" writer/producer Sian Heder expands wider in theatres this week - TALLULAH. Heder, who not only writes TALLULAH, makes her feature directorial debut, and in the process delivers a beautiful film driven by intimate character studies and the intricacy of nuanced detail. We first meet Tallulah and boyfriend Nico living in Tallulah's beat-up old van. Living a true vagabond life, the two have been wandering around the country for two years, stealing...
Do you remember several articles printed long ago? They were so unbelievably funny or just so very informative that they bear repeating. Therefore, you may see some references that seem familiar sprinkled throughout this column. I just bet students who read the rankings of colleges and universities would be pleasantly surprised how well the military academies stock up – and for graduates it’s free. In most institutions of higher learning grads take the diploma with their right hand and the...
Innovative, Creative, Dedicated, Devoted Judith Love Cohen, a longtime Culver City resident, was a trailblazing electrical engineer working in the forefront of 20th century science whose many accomplishments included valuable contributions to the Apollo program. After graduating from USC in 1957 with a degree in electrical engineering Cohen joined Space Technology Laboratories in Redondo Beach, which later became TRW. The accompanying photograph of her with a satellite was taken there in 1959....
Without a doubt the City of Inglewood defied the odds that enabled the city to become the ultimate choice of the Los Angeles Rams when they relocated back to Southern California this past January 2016. Having guided Inglewood back from financial desperation to solvency, the City Council has effectively proven itself over the past five consecutive years. Highlights include every budget balanced with a surplus in 2015. The city's reserves more than tripled from $11 million in 2011 to $38 million...
The world and especially Los Angeles is a better place because of people like Don Buford. The former major league baseball star is still an energizer bunny at the age of 79. When most people his age are working in the garden or playing golf Buford is running local youth league programs, speaking at local colleges and throwing out the first ball at local baseball events. “I feel very fortunate to still be thought of as a local hero,” said Buford after he threw the ceremonial first pitch for the...
Former UCLA basketball star Ann Meyers Drysdale has been named Chair of the innovative “Hoops for Youth” program, which enables underprivileged children to attend UCLA basketball games at historic Pauley Pavilion. Meyers Drysdale was a member of the Bruins’ 1978 women’s national championship team. In 1993, she was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. “UCLA basketball is in my blood. I know how magical it is to be part of the tradition of UCLA basketball and I want others to have the opportunity to experience that trad...
Melvin Durslag, who ranked with Jim Murray and Bud Furillo as Los Angeles ’ premier sports columnists of his time, died last weekend. The 95-year-old Durslag died in a convalesent home in Santa Monica. Durslag began writing for the LA Examiner in 1039 which then became the Herald Examiner.and during the next 50 years he covered the Olympic Games 10 times and 25 Super Bowls among many other events. He took time off only to serve in World War 2. When the Herald Examiner folded in 1989 Durslag w...
The City of Inglewood and the Los Angeles Rams are now partners with a promising future and a commitment to providing first-class entertainment. Five years ago both franchises were a disaster. The Rams were in St. Louis and at the bottom of the NFL with a 2-14 record. Inglewood was on the verge of suffering a financial collapse. After the dust had settled from the league announcement in January of this year that Inglewood would be home to the Los Angeles Rams and three months later learned that...
In less than five years the City of Inglewood has gone from the brink of bankruptcy to becoming the site of the 2021 Super Bowl. In November 2014 Mayor James Butts was re-elected with 83% of the vote, the largest percentage of victory ever in the city's history. With significant citizen support, Butts and the current city council members: George Dotson – District 1; Alex Padilla – District 2; Eloy Morales, Jr. – District 3 and Ralph L. Franklin – District 4, worked on the city's financial issues...
Philip Roth has long been a favorite author to many. His words have found themselves adapted for the big screen countless times to great effect. But it’s his 29th novel, INDIGNATION, that is one of the most beautiful and resonant adaptations thanks to writer/director James Schamus. A novel that fictionalizes Roth’s own life during his college years, on both page and screen, we are transported on both an emotional and sensory level to 1950's Newark, New Jersey with the story of Marcus Mes...
ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE Scrat's back and as to be expected, he's up to his old tricks again; this time inadvertently creating the solar system thanks to his never-ending pursuit of that elusive acorn. That's right folks! The ICE AGE franchise continues with this fresh and funny fifth installment, ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE. As has become the story standard, everyone's favorite saber-toothed squirrel Scrat and his mishaps are the catalysts or inspirations for each film. Remember the splitting...
Every July there is summer excitement brewing at the Toyota Sports Center, the Lakers headquarters and practice facility in El Segundo. No, it wasn't the news that Brandon Ingram, the second overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft, was practicing at the Lakers’ facility. On Saturday, the excitement involved about 216 capable young women from all over the country trying-out to become a dancer for next season's Laker Girls dance squad. It was an open audition, a cattle call. The only requirements - be at least 18 years of age, have eight years of d...
The Washington Post just conducted a yearlong study on police shootings and found cops shot and killed at least 984 people in 2015, many of them under questionable circumstances. Among those killed were 248 people with serious psychological problems. Ninety of the police shooting victims were unarmed and the racial disparity in this group was glaring. While blacks make up six percent of the U.S. population they account for 40 percent of the unarmed men shot to death by police. Nearly 50 prison...
The Culver City Woman's Club is having their annual picnic on Monday, August 1, 2016 at Carlson Park, Motor & Braddock, in Culver City, 11 am to 4 pm. There will be food, Bingo and a White Elephant Sale. Proceeds from the event will be used for the club's charitable giving. Admission is $10. Please contact Carole at 310-453-2314....
You are invited to participate in the following discussion: Community meeting to discuss the City’s revitalization project “ Reimagine Fox Hills” It will take place on Thursday, July 28 from 7 pm to 9 at the Veterans Memorial Complex Garden Room, 4117 Overland Ave. For more information please contac Elaine Gerety Warner, Economic Development Project Manager at 310.253.5777 or elaine.warner@culvercity.org Light refreshments will be served....
• Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival - Enjoy an evening in Culver City for the 2016 Culver City Boulevard Music Summer Festival! Boulevard Music presents a total of six free concerts on Thursday evenings at 7 pm through August 11 in the palm-lined courtyard of Culver City's City Hall. Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley performed on July 7 (at right), and Peter Mawanga and the Amaravi Movement entertained the crowd on July 14 (below). Become an entry level sponsor by purchasing one of the 100...
As part of its efforts to expand water conservation programs for its communities West Basin Municipal Water District has launched its first-ever greywater workshop series. The workshops are designed to educate residents on the safe and legal use of greywater and showcase an innovative technique to reduce residential water use. A total of five classes have been scheduled in the District’s service area this summer. West Basin’s greywater workshops, led by Greywater Action Founder Laura Allen, will demonstrate the benefits of greywater, inc...
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) has awarded former Culver City Mayor and Councilperson Sandra Levin, executive director of the LA Law Library in Los Angeles, the Robert L. Oakley Advocacy Award this year. Established in 2008, the award recognizes the outstanding efforts of an AALL member, or group, who has contributed significantly to AALL’s policy agenda at the federal, state, local, or international level. The award honors the memory of Robert L. Oakley, AALL's Washington affairs representative from 1989 to 2007. Levin was n...
At 3:55 p.m. Monday a man stole a FedEx truck that was making deliveries. The truck was at the corner of Washington Boulevard and Tilden Avenue. The suspect then crashed into a mixed-use building on Washington and was detained by people in a nearby business, according to police. The suspect then ran inside the Martin B. Retting gun store and proceeded to attack an employee. He was stopped by the store's other employees using pepper spray until Culver City Police arrived. The suspect was then transported to an area hospital for evaluation...
Karina Baker of Culver City made the Dean's List at the Rochester Institute of Technology for the spring 2016 semester. Baker is studying applied arts and sciences. Degree-seeking undergraduate students are eligible for Dean's List if their term GPA is greater than or equal to 3.400; they do not have any grades of "Incomplete", "D" or "F"; and they have registered for, and completed, at least 12 credit hours. Rochester Institute of Technology is home to leading creators, entrepreneurs, innovators and researchers. Founded in 1829, RIT enrolls...
