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Who doesn’t love video games? Be you a full-blown gamer, a game obsessed ‘cause it’s better than homework kid, or someone who looks back fondly on days of yore and the birth of a booming industry with loving memories of games like Space Invaders, Pong, Pac Man or Mario, or even back to the precursor of video games, pinball, somewhere deep inside you, we’ll find a gaming girl or boy. And that’s exactly why even the closet-gamers out there will run with rolls of quarters in hand to the nearest t...
Sony Pictures Entertainment is hosting the Culver City Chamber at a special movie screening of "SKYFALL" on Wednesday, November 14 in the Cary Grant Theater, Sony Pictures Studios,10202 W Washington Blvd, entrance/parking at the Madison Ave Gate. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. and the movie will begin at 7:45. Tickets cost $17 each and will allow ticket holders an opportunity to receive substantial discounts for dinner and dessert at local Chamber member restaurants. Tickets must be paid for in advance. You must show your ticket to be allowed...
On Saturday the USC football team will host Oregon at the Coliseum starting at 4 pm. The Culver City Police Department is advising anyone who will be using the Expo Line for transportation to the game arrive early at the Expo Parking lot on National Boulevard. Prior to the last USC home game the Expo Line parking lot was full over three hours prior to the start of the game. Culver City Police will issue citations to those who illegally park in the areas of Culver City close to the Expo Line parking lot. Those seeking alternatives to the Expo...
Circus Vargas, one of the largest animal-free circuses in the nation, has returned to the Westfield Culver City shopping center’s parking lot for the first of nine shows that will begin tonight and run through Monday, Nov. 5. The all-new show has a “Broadway theme,” with flashy new costumes and songs that were written and scored specifically for Circus Vargas. For the first time, a human cannonball will join the cast that includes the famous Flying Tabares trapeze artists and other aerial performers, clowns and jugglers, acrobatic tumbl...
October 26 · Measure Y - The City Council is asking voters in Culver City to consider enacting a temporary local sales tax of one-half cent, which would automatically expire after 10 years, in order to provide funding for essential local services at current levels. Prescription medicine and food purchases would be exempt from the sales tax. . If you would like to find out more about Measure Y and the City’s efforts to address budget concerns, please visit www.culvercity.org. Community Development Department · Westfield Culver City – A permi...
The Culver City Garden Club will hold its next meeting on November 6, at Star Education, 10117 Jefferson Blvd., in Culver City [between Raintree and Duquesne]. The speaker will be Jane Brackman and her presentation will be "Pets in Your Garden". There will also be a plant Show, Tell & Ask" and refreshments. The meeting is free and open to all....
Come one come all, this very fall, to take a ride on the Culver City boat, and cast your most precious vote. For measure Y with a definite "Yes". Without Y our residents' needs will be a mess. We need what this measure gives to everyone, Vote, Vote for Y, Then on November 7 we will have won. Mary Lou Cardone Culver City...
As a lifetime Democrat and former CCUSD School Board Member, I was very disappointed when I read the list of voting recommendations of the Culver City Democratic Club. The Club endorsed a vote NO on Prop. 38 on school funding. The passage of Prop 38 can be very beneficial to CCUSD. Every year, the Culver City Education Foundation and School Booster Clubs and PTA spend countless parent hours raising funds which add up to approximately less than $400,000. Prop.38, however, if passed by the voters would bring in approximately $6.5 million for Culv...
As much as I’m sick of political ads this season, there is one item on the ballot that I hope readers will consider. Voting YES on – Measure Y. Regardless of the outcome of so many other issues, Measure Y is a local, Culver City campaign. This meager sales tax has the potential to keep our little Culver City community in the black and stop the loss of City services that we have grown to rely upon. It will add just five cents to a $10 purchase – It’s hard to imagine a smaller investment for a better return to our town. I think there’s overwhelm...
I plan to support Measure Y. It benefits my family and all of us who live in Culver City. Every cent of revenue from Measure Y will go to retain a high level of local services, such as police and fire protection and 911 emergency response. The funds will support senior services, street repairs, parks upkeep, public safety and much more. Help your community by voting yes on Measure "Y". Mary Ann Webster Culver City...
On Tuesday, November 6 the voting residents of Culver City will have many choices at our voting booths -- nationally, state-wide and locally. One vote that will affect each and every one of us in Culver City is the vote to enact Measure Y – the tiny ½ penny sales tax increase that will have a huge impact on our city and will be paid for primarily by non-Culver City residents who visit or work in our city. Like you, I am used to living in a clean, safe and caring city. And like you, I do not want to see every aspect of my life change and de...
As former City Treasurer, I urge Culver City voters to vote Yes on Measure Y. Unlike many other cities, over the past five years our City Councils have been thoughtful in implementing viable cost-cutting strategies (including pension reform) and revenue enhancements (some of which, like the increase in the hotel bed tax, required voter approval.) These were significant changes to cut back structural budget deficits that were literally wiped out overnight with the State’s action to dissolve our primary economic engine, the Redevelopment A...
According to the Culver City Website, “Culver City is now at a critical juncture. Unless City revenues are increased, City leaders will need to make further significant cuts to public safety and other essential City services. Measure Y will assist in raising such revenues through a temporary one-half cent sales tax that will generate nearly $8 million annuall. Sounds like a start. It would mean a half-cent sales tax increase that goes directly to Culver City for 10 years. If State Measure 30 passes, then we would have another ¼ cent tax in...
As a Culver City resident for 50 plus years, I can attest to the community benefits of our remarkably well-run local government. I acknowledge the present traumatic effects of our national economic recession and its threat to the maintenance of our comfortable, local existence. Without the passage of Proposition Y, which would add a minimal increase to our local retail tax base, the continuance of present services will the threatened. Our locally elected councilmen cannot avoid further cuts to local services if Proposition Y does not pass....
I am writing in support of Measure Y. I believe that Culver City residents enjoy an outstanding city with excellent services in most every area. Unfortunately, due to the national economic depression, Culver City has suffered a significant loss of revenue and has already cut personnel, budgets, and services to a great extent. Voting in Measure Y will put some revenue back into the city coffers and prevent further services from being cut. And most everyone can afford an additional nickle per $10 spent in Culver City. Even better is that the...
Tournament Set . You can sign up your four-person group for the Culver City Lions Club Bowling Tournament on Sunday, November 25 from 4 pm until 7 at Mar Vista Bowl. Teams of four are $120. Please send checks to CC Lions Club, Mike Eskridge, Culver City Flowers, 10801 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232. Mar Vista Bowl is located at 12125 Venice Blvd. Your group of four gets two hours of bowling and shoe rental. Cash prizes and raffles are also included, and food and drink are available for purchase. For information, please contact:...
Sip for Our Schools, Culver City Education Foundation’s fourth annual wine tasting event, was a huge success. The entire evening was a sampling of music, wines and beer tastings accompanied by appetizers and desserts. More than 200 people were in attendance. Upon entering the event held at The Redd Collection in Culver City, attendees were greeted by the music of the Culver City High AVPA Jazz Combo. Viewing the room you saw a microcosm of the larger Culver City community mixing and enjoying each other’s company. City Council members and the...
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra, which performs the masterworks of the past and presents works of the present, celebrates its 50 years with its 2012-13 Season. The first concert of the season is “Past and Present, Fifty Years,” on Friday, November 16 under the direction of Conductor and Music Director-Frank Fetta. This concert also fulfills the orchestra’s ongoing commitment to young musicians, and presents Feng Bian, piano, the Senior Division Winner of the orchestra sponsored Parness Concerto Competition. The concert will be at Veter...
Some of Culver City’s finest citizens are backing Measure Y, the ½ cent sales tax increase on the ballot on Tuesday. We must respectfully disagree with them and urge a No Vote on Measure Y. In practical terms Measure Y will most probably pass but for all the wrong reasons. Measure Y will not solve the excesses at city hall. It will not solve the cash drain and the dipping into the city reserves that prior city leaders have so painstakingly saved. To be sure, we believe our city has some of the finest employees in the nation; however both our em...
In 1978 Proposition 13 was on the ballot to reduce property taxes so the elderly and people on fixed incomes would not lose their homes, Californians were told the passage of Prop 13 would mean our homes would “burn to the ground” before the fire department arrived. Well guess what….no one’s home ever burned to the ground. If Measure Y fails to pass next week life will go on. Police and Fire personnel will still respond to your emergencies. City Hall will still be there to take your tax payments whether you are in individual homeowner or busi...
With the Presidential election topping the ballot around the nation, all eyes in Culver City are on local Measure Y, called the Essential Services Tax, which would raise the sales tax in Culver City by one-half percent. Faced with several years of deficits, the major blow to city finances came when the governor eliminated redevelopment agencies throughout the state. The city council has worked to reduce the deficit through departmental cuts, retirements, increases health care contributions by...
Third Place Is At Stake Friday The breaks aren’t exactly going the Culver City High football team’s way right about now. The Centaurs lost their first- and second-string centers last Friday against Morningside, and the third-stringer is the starting left guard, which means much of the offensive line is being shuffled. The quarterback situation is uncertain. After completing just 3 of 12 passes last week and committing costly turnovers, starter Xan Cuevas was pulled from the game and backup David Handler was put in. But neither quarterback had...
When the Oklahoma Thunder traded NBA Sixth Man of The Year James Harden last weekend, many fans were shocked. How could the Thunder send away such an important player? The answer is that economics have become increasingly important to NBA owners because the new collective bargaining agreement with the players includes harsh financial penalties for spending more than the salary cap. Harden is the latest example of this reality. The Thunder have several huge contract extensions coming up, led by...
