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Culver City is turning 100 next year and will begin the yearlong celebration this Saturday with a parade, opening ceremonies and a neighborhood-wide, interactive celebration of creativity, community and cuisine. It will be put on by the Downtown Business Association dubbed Culver City’s Block Party of the Century starting at 12:30 pm and continuing until 4 pm. At 9 a.m. the Community Parade begins at Overland Avenue and marches along Culver Boulevard, concluding in Downtown Culver City. With bands and vintage cars the parade is estimated to h...
The 2016 Culver City High football team won their third consecutive game of the season as they went on the road to beat University High, 35-7, on Friday night, September 23. Quarterback Jonathan Martin threw for three touchdowns and ran for another as the Centaurs jumped to a 28-0 halftime lead. Also scoring for Culver: running back Brandon Oum and wide receivers Justin Cox, Kevin McGuire and Charles Ross. Culver kicker Carlos Barillas converted all five extra-point attempts. Oum was the team's...
It boiled down to the last play of the game but the defense prevailed in the red zone as the Los Angeles Rams came away with a much-deserved 37-32 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, September 25, 2016. The game had a strange ending as it was suspended for over an hour due to lightning that moved into the Tampa Bay area with just two minutes remaining and the Rams hanging onto a slim 5-point lead with the ball but facing a 3rd-and-11 situation at their own 5-yard line. The Rams threw a...
Centaurs Entertain Dorsey in Historic Matchup Although Dorsey High School is only a few blocks east of Culver City the two teams have never met on the gridiron. After more than 60 years this 2016 historic matchup will finally take place this Friday night, September 30. Culver has played Dorsey in 7 on 7 summer tussles usually at Loyola High School and have done reasonable well against the Dons. Dorsey had been a long time city powerhouse under Paul Knox but the decision was made last year by...
For those of you who didn’t have their accounts depleted at Wells Fargo Bank by very nasty bank employees doing mean things, why not celebrate by taking that very special person to Las Vegas? Ever dream of commanding a gondola? The Venetian Las Vegas Gondola University offers instruction to up to nine participants per day that begins with a history of Venice followed by gondola fundamentals. Learn “Rowing 101” and the hands-on experience of rowing a vessel. At the end there is a ritual cerem...
The UCLA Bruins football team will try to do what USC failed to accomplish last week, beat Stanford. Stanford, rated in the top 10 nationally, is the defending Pac-12 and Rose Bowl champion. They also have one of the best players in the nation in Christian McCaffrey. The Bruins lock horns with the Cardinal on Saturday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Kickoff is set for 5 p.m. and the game will be televised on Channel 7 or ESPN. UCLA will have to play its best game of the year if it expects to beat...
Our risk for memory loss increases as we age. What can we do now to keep our brains healthy? Are there foods that we can eat that will help our memory? What do we do if we see signs of memory loss? These questions and more will be answered at a free community forum to be held on Saturday, Oct. 1 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Culver City Senior Center, 4095 Overland Ave., Culver City. Plentiful free parking is available onsite. The forum, titled “Brain Health & Alzheimer’s Disease,” is hosted by Alzheimer’s Greater Los Angeles. The keynote...
Culver City kids will have a chance to meet their favorite local author, Tami Fitzkoff, at the 15TH Annual Kickin’ Cancer!® 5K Run / Walk / Stroll on October 2 at 11620 San Vicente Blvd. It’s the Lynne Cohen Foundation’s flagship event to end women’s cancers through prevention, and as a parent and woman, this event hits home for Tami. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime and there will be 21,290 new cases of ovarian cancer, the deadliest gynecologic cancer, in the U.S. this year alone. Culver City mom and...
KP West LA continues its commitment to educating teens and their parents about pregnancy consequences and prevention, birth control options, and sexually-transmitted diseases with its Teen Pregnancy Prevention Seminar on Oct. 1 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. It’s a four-hour seminar that has been hosted for local teens between the ages of 13 and 16 by KP West LA, twice a year since 2002. The seminar typically has about 80 attendees, and is open to the public. “Whether or not our teens are having sex they are being exposed to sex at a younger age tho...
If you’ve read this column over the years you probably know I traveled with the Lakers for a long time and got to know Chick Hearn very well. We frequently sat together on plane rides and I had the pleasure of knowing his wife, Marge, too. I haven’t known Vin Scully as well because I didn’t travel with the Dodgers but we became friends through a lot of conversations in the Dodger Stadium press box. The Lakers began flying charter many years ago but they used to fly commercial and one time Hearn...
The first 100 years met with raves at the opening book signing at Westfield Culver City on the City’s 99th anniversary on September 20, 2016. Record crowds stood in line waiting to purchase the book and have Julie personally sign them for those in attendance. The book was selling at the rate of one every minute for over two hours of the signing. Authored by Culver City Historian Julie Lugo Cerra. The centennial publication is her second history book of Culver City, plus three books on Culver City from the renowned Scenes of America Series a...
Follow the yellow brick road in the Culver City downtown block party's family fun zone, Saturday. Sept. 24, 12:30 pm to 4 p.m., where guests will paint bricks on the famous street from the Wizard of Oz, experience a 3-D Emerald City photo exhibit, watch acclaimed street artists chalk movie scenes, and try their hand at chalking the streets themselves in celebration of the city's 100th birthday. Guests also will pose next to movie and television character standees from Culver City-based productions in the family fun zone, which is presented by...
Culver City High graduate Abel Lezcano is a member of the Colgate University Class of 2020. Of the 8,394 applications to Colgate last year, just 28.7 percent were accepted. The average high school GPA for accepted students was 3.8 out of 4.0. Colgate received applications from 50 states, Washington D.C., and 138 countries. International students make up 10 percent of the class. Colgate meets 100 percent of students' demonstrated financial need, and 41.6 percent of the Class of 2020 is receiving institutional grant funding. Colgate is ranked...
Nine years after winning its first Grand Match Gala chess tournament, Linwood Howe Elementary reclaimed its title this year with a first place finish in the 2016 Grand Match Gala, held on June 25 at USC. The team will be receiving college scholarships for their efforts and the much heralded title of GMG Chess Tutor Champions. Chess Tutors’ Grand Match Gala pits the best of the best chess players from around Southern California in a battle of the minds. More than 20 schools competed this year, from 10 different school districts. This includes B...
Garbage is nothing, right? No value, by definition. Wrong! Let your imagination go swimming: What if garbage had the power to inspire dreams? Garbage is worthless, meaningless. Ah, but we're spoiled, and perhaps have limits to our creativity. Can beauty be cultured to emerge? Favio Chavez saw unlimited possibilities in the garbage of Cateura, a small town in Paraguay next to one of the largest landfills in South America. Cateura's a poor place; people mainly live as gancheros; by scavenging...
The 2016-’17 National Basketball Association season begins Monday, when the Lakers, Clippers and all other teams will have their annual media day. On Tuesday all teams will begin practice. The Lakers will be at UC Santa Barbara and the Clippers at UC Irvine. A few weeks later exhibition games will be played, leading to the start of the regular season at the end of the month. The Clippers will be home on Wednesday, November 2 against Oklahoma City and the Lakers’ home opener will be on November 4 against Golden State, both LA teams again pla...
A full harvest moon arose from the southern hills and smiled upon the 2016 Culver City High football team as it cruised to a second consecutive victory at home over a South Bay opponent. The Centurs controlled much of the game against North Torrance High, 37-14. Despite the margin of victory the Centaurs missed a number of opportunities to put more points on the scoreboard at Jerry Chabola Stadium against a determined Saxon squad with a potent offensive backfield. The Culver offense scored five...
It was a bold new day rising in the City of Angels as the Los Angeles Rams stunned the Seattle Seahawks, 9-3, in their official Southern California return debut after having spent the past 21 seasons calling St. Louis home. Sunday, September 18, 2016 was a very important first-step for this pro football-starved fan base. The football gods may not have christened the win but 91,046 fans enthusiastically re-embracing their beloved Rams despite the decades-long absence certainly did. Undeniably,...
. . . . . . . . . . Results: Game 1 - West Torrance 34 - Culver City 33 (Loss) Game 2 - Culver City 49 - Torrance 14 (Win) Game 3 - Culver City 37 - North Torrance 14 (Win) Game 4 - Culver City 35 - University 7 (Win) . Remaining Schedule: September 30 Dorsey at Culver City . October 7 El Segundo at Culver City 14 Culver City at Lawndale 21 Culver City at Hawthorne 28 Santa Monica at Culver City . November 4 Culver City at Beverly Hills 11 CIF Playoffs...
