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The Culver City City Council voted Monday night to sue the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over the agency’s plan to refigure air traffic over Southern California. The FAA contends that the project called Southern California Metroplex will upgrade decades-old air traffic procedures by moving flight patterns from ground based radar to newer satellite navigation. The FAA contends it will reduce skyway congestion, carbon emissions and, in some cases, noise. At its Monday meeting,Culver C...
The Chicago Cubs won the World Series 8-7 over the Cleveland Indians. In what turned out to be a close game the Cubs won in the 10th inning. The win ended a dry spell for the Cubs who haven't won a World Series in 108 years.Read sportswriter Mitch Chortkoff's story on the game online tomorrow....
The Pac-12 women's volleyball league continues to be one of the most competitive leagues in the nation. Seven out of the 12 teams still have a chance to win the league championship going into the month of November. This weekend UCLA and USC continue their quest to win the title and get a high seed in the NCAA tournament. UCLA will play Colorado tonight at 6 p.m. in the John Wooden Center on the UCLA campus and on Saturday they battle Utah at 8 p.m. in Pauley Pavilion. The Bruins, who are current...
C. Deane Funk, former publisher of the Santa Monica Evening Outlook, passed away peacefully on his 92nd birthday in Thousand Oaks after a brief illness. Funk was born in Normal, IL, with the family moving to Glendale a year later, and finally to Santa Monica in 1936. He attended Harvard Military School before transferring to The Taft School, in Watertown, CT. After a year at Stanford, Deane served in the U. S. Navy on the USS Lauderdale during WWII as Radio Technician First Class. His ship...
Culver City High senior Zachary Greenberg has earned the highest possible score on the standardized ACT exam – a composite score of 36. "Zachary is the epitome of a scholar athlete who excels in the classroom and on his team," said Assistant Principal DuBois McMillan of Zachary, who is a member of the Centaurs water polo team. "Zach is captain of the water polo team and is a two-year varsity player," said Coach Nestor Dordoni. "He is also on the swim team and one of the best swimmers in the s...
The world premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's "Vicuña," directed by Robert Egan, opens this Sunday, October 30, at 6:30 p.m. at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatr in Culver Citye. Performances for "Vicuña" continue through November 20. The cast includes, in alphabetical order, Linda Gehringer, Brian George, Harry Groener, Ramiz Monsef and Samantha Sloyan. Influenced by the evolving political landscape, this brand new satire focuses on a brash presidential candidate on the rise – a blu...
A lot of Dodger fans are disappointed that their team didn’t make the World Series again this season. I see the season in a much different way. The Dodgers were phenomenal in overcoming an eight-game division deficit to finish in first place over the Giants. Then they won their first round playoff series and gave the heavily favored Cubs a battle before losing in the second round. All of this without the addition of any elite free agent pitchers last summer. They lost one, in fact, when they w...
So what happened to the $20 bill? Just how long does it take to remove President Jackson and put in Harriet Tubman? I believe the Central Valley’s bullet train just shot its backers in their feet. It’s amazing the Board of Supervisors is considering a parcel tax to help the homeless. Culver City already has a parcel tax for the Julian Dixon County Library and I’m darn sure there are one or two more that I just don’t remember. Saint Vincent operates the world’s largest thrift store. It’s 54,0...
The Culver City Garden Club will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, November 1 at 7 pm in the Garden Room of the Veterans' Complex, 4117 Overland Ave. @ Culver Blvd. The meeting is free and all are welcome. The speaker will be Bruce Blavin from the Rare Fruit Growers Club of Southern California. His topic: "The Joys & Struggles of Raising Rare Fruit". Following his talk there will be refreshments and a $1 raffle. Membership in the Club is $15 from July 1 to June 30 but is not required for meeting attendance....
Students at La Ballona Elementary School are taking part in an innovative, new learning experience designed to help them learn about mathematics in a way that is both fun and engaging. Each Tuesday after school students gather for La Ballona Math Circle, part of a movement originated in Eastern Europe that came to the United States in the 1990s. Since then, the movement has spread nationwide, with more than 180 Math Circles operating across the country, in a wide variety of formats and settings. At La Ballona the Math Circle brings students tog...
As any reader of this column knows, voters will be confronted come election day with billions and billions of new tax hikes and bond measures (which, of course, result in their own tax hikes). But let’s not forget that there is another reason for taxpayer to experience a heightened sense of anxiety over the next few weeks. For many the real scare this time of year is not the monsters at our doors on Halloween but the property tax bill in the mail box. But, while the “tax and spend” lobby incre...
It's going around, like December's flu. We're all afraid of it, and everyone's catching it. You're not sure if you've got it; you just sense something's wrong. Feeling anxious? Fear, foreboding, worry. Disquiet. They define it. The antonym's tranquility. Can you truthfully say this election's got you feeling tranquil? Everyone I speak to is worried; the doubts go beyond who'll win the White House. Hillary Clinton took donations from foreign countries to the family's foundation, then gave them...
The Dodgers’ Dave Roberts has been named National League Manager of the Year in a vote by fellow league managers in The Sporting News. “I see this as a team award,” said Roberts who expertly guided the Dodgers into a division champion after they fell eight games behind the San Francisco Giants in mid-season. The Dodgers finished 91-71 as Roberts joined Tommy Lasorda in 1977 as the only rookie manager in Dodgers history to win the award....
The Culver City High Centaurs moved into a four-way tie for first place in the 2016 Ocean League football season as they trounced host Lawndale High 62-35, on Friday, October 21. The Centaurs scored nine touchdowns, two each in the first three quarters yet the outcome wasn't decided until the fourth quarter when they rallied for three more touchdowns to slam the door on a much-improved and stubborn Hawthorne team which crept back into the game at 42-35 minutes into the final quarter. "My first...
I love hockey. Whether it's played on ice or cement with sharp blades of steel or roller blades. As long as there is a puck and a net I'll watch it and cheer for whichever team I believe is working the hardest. When all of the cheering is over, though, I want a clear winner. Last Saturday, at the end of what I would generally consider a well-played game, the Kings found themselves in a 3-3 tie with Vancouver. Now Vancouver is clearly a very good team...after all, they have The Sedins , always a...
The Los Angeles Rams' first half of the 2016 season took another hit as they lost a 'home' game to the New York Giants, 17-10, at Twickenham Stadium, just outside London on October 23. Just in time to spoil early Sunday morning breakfast for Ram fans across Southern California. The Rams were facing a third-and-10 at the Giants' 15-yard line with 50 seconds to go, needing a touchdown to tie the game. On a high alley-oop pass intended for wide receiver Brian Quick who took a wrong turn, Keenum...
The ninth annual ‘Dribble for the Cure,’ which has raised over $1 million in the battle against pediatric cancer during its eight-year history, will once again be held on the UCLA campus Sunday morning, November 6. Cori Close, the coach of the UCLA women’s basketball team and Steve Alford, the coach of the UCLA men’s basketball team along with the UCLA Athletic Department will join forces with Bruin men’s basketball Hall of Famer John Vallely, the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation (PCRF) and the Cancer Research Program at Mattel Children’s H...
The UCLA football team is hoping that its bye week will help them regroup and put them in a position to climb back into the winning column. They have lost three games in a row and they have dropped to fifth place in a si- team Pac-12 Southern Conference. Their overall record is 3-5 and they are 1-4 in conference play. Their running game has basically disappeared and their passing game, without injured star quarterback Josh Rosen creates to many turnovers with costly interceptions. Last week...
The Pac-12 women's volleyball league continues to be one of the most competitive leagues in the nation. Seven out of the 12 teams still have a chance to win the league championship going into the month of November. This weekend UCLA and USC continue their quest to win the title and get a high seed in the NCAA tournament. UCLA will play Colorado tonight at 6 p.m. in the John Wooden Center on the UCLA campus and on Saturday they battle Utah at 8 p.m. in Pauley Pavilion. The Bruins, who are current...
One's fate can be determined by something as simple as a piece of paper pinned to a tree. Just ask Culver City Unified School District's affable and enthusiastic Superintendent, Dr. Joshua Arnold, who started July 1, 2016 (or keep reading for the answer). After earning his Bachelor of Arts in English from UCLA he obtained a Masters in Organizational Leadership from Harvard and a Doctorate in Education from USC. He and his wife, Claire, have two young children, Isabella Juliet and Anthony...
The Culver City Woman's Club is having a fashion show fundraiser at Talbots in Manhattan Village, 3200 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Manhattan Beach on Saturday, November 12. The doors will open at 8:45 am for breakfast goodies and the show starts at 9:15 am. All attendees will get a 25% discount on purchases and there will be raffle prizes. Tickets are $20 and all proceeds will go to the local charitable organizations that the Woman's Club supports. For reservations or further information please call Pat at 310-670-2990....
As if David MacKenzie's award-worthy "Hell or High Water" wasn't enough of a reason to celebrate cinema, and particularly the American western, Antoine Fuqua brings us the high octane stunning reimagination of "The Magnificent Seven." But now lauded horror genre writer/director/editor Ti West enters the corral with IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE, a real rootin' tootin' western but with a Ti West twist, proving yet again that the western is alive and well and very much beloved. As we saw with "The...
There is one hot ticket on Halloween night that you don't want to miss. No, it's not the annual Halloween parade in West Hollywood. Even better, Boz Scaggs is making an appearance on his 2016 concert tour at The Rose in Pasadena. Scaggs will be singing songs from his new "A Fool to Care" album, and treating fans to all of his hit singles which includes "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle," both songs from the critically acclaimed "Silk Degrees (1976)" album. This album peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 and both songs reached the Top 10 list in the...
Can you run a full marathon under 4 hours and 10 minutes? The Culver City Sister City Committee, a non-profit international and intercultural community organization, is looking for one male and one female runner to run the 23rd Annual Osaka Senshu International City Marathon, Feb. 19, 2017. As good citizen diplomats, the two selected runners will reside with Kaizuka host families during the five day stay. Participants will meet runners from around the world. Applicants must be over 18 years of age, be consistent runners, fit and in good...
Sparks win WNBA Championship. See Steve Finley's play by play account this week....
