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1. Los Angeles Rams (7-1): The Rams are not sitting back and hoping that their current roster is good enough to win it all. The Rams on Monday acquired linebacker Von Miller from the Broncos in exchange for second- and third-round picks in the 2022 NFL Draft. Miller was the MVP of Super 50 and is an eight-time Pro Bowl selection. The 32-year-old veteran has 110 sacks in his career. Next: -7.5 vs Tennesse Titans - Sun, Nov. 7 – O/U 54 (ATS: 4-4 – O/U: 5-2-1) 2. Dallas Cowboys (6-1): The Cow...
Culver City High advanced to the Quarterfinals of the CIF Division 6 Football Playoffs, 21-9, with a well-earned win over the Shadow Hills High Knights in the City of Indio on Friday night. They will host Camarillo High this Friday, November 12, taking on the top-seed Scorpions at 7:00 p.m. in Jerry Chabola Stadium. The Centaurs have made the CIF quarterfinals in four of the last five post-seasons. While Culver City's defense stymied the Shadow Hills running attack, Senior Culver City running...
For the third week in a row the Culver City varsity football team will be on the road. This time they will travel 127 miles to the city of Indio to battle the Shadow Hills Knights on Friday at 7:30 p.m. The Centaurs are the 174th ranked team in the state of California and the Knights are the 170th ranked team in the state. Culver City comes into the CIF Division 6 playoffs with an overall record of 6-3 and they were 4-1 in the Bay league which put them in second place behind Palos Verdes. Shadow...
A cyclist on a leisure ride on Sawtelle Boulevard was held up at gunpoint by another cyclist who stole his bike last week, Culver City police said. The armed robbery occurred at 7:45 a.m. on October 21 near the vicinity of Braddock Dr. and Sawtelle Blvd., according to the Culver City Police Department. The victim told police he was riding his bicycle on Sawtelle under the 405 freeway when the suspect, on a bicycle in front of him, "blocked his path and told the victim the bike belonged to his...
Culver City Vice Mayor Daniel Lee has entered the race for the congressional seat currently held Karen Bass who recently announced she is running for Mayor of Los Angeles next year. It marks the second time this year that Lee is seeking higher office. In March, he came in a distant second in a special election to fill the vacant 30th Senate District seat, previously held by current County Supervisor Holly Mitchell. The Senate seat winner, Sydney Kamlager (D-Los Angeles), garnered 68% of the...
The Aspen Institute has named West Los Angeles College (WLAC) one of the 150 institutions eligible to compete for the $1 million Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, a recognition of high achievement and performance among America's community colleges. Former President Barack Obama described the Aspen Prize as "basically the Oscars for great community colleges." The colleges selected for this honor stand out among more than 1,000 community colleges nationwide as having high and...
Daylight savings time ends in California this Sunday at 2am.When you go to bed Saturday night remember to turn your clocks back one hour. Daylight savings time returns on March 13 next year....
TheYamila Guerra and Yalil Guerra Orchestra performs for a group of happy dancers at the 2021 Fiesta la Ballona....
Ethelyne (Mickey) Mae Pitti, 101 of Hemet, California passed away on Wednesday, August 18, 2021, at home with her three daughters by her side. Born on Sunday, December 14, 1919 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of the late Judson Clark and Ruth Wallace Clark. Mickey met her husband Carl while they were working in Yosemite National Park. Both enjoyed fishing, hunting and entertaining. While living in Culver City, CA. Mickey was very active in community organizations, having a profound...
Nearly three dozen homeless people have so far decided to move from their encampment in Westchester Park on Lincoln Boulevard to temporary housing, Los Angeles city officials announced this week. “More than 30 residents of the park have moved indoors and into temporary housing and on a path to permanent housing,” tweeted LA City Councilman Mike Bonin on Tuesday, a day after implementing an “Encampments to Homes” effort in Westchester Park, which offers homeless people a pathway to permanent housing and appropriate services to help them succeed...
Dear Editor: In Culver City we're facing housing unaffordability on an unprecedented scale. Residents like to think of our city as a place diverse in both ethnicity and income, but our demographics only move further and further from that ideal because people with middle and lower incomes can't afford to live here anymore. Between 2010 and 2017, median home prices increased 64%, coinciding with an 18% decrease in Culver City's total Black population over that same period. Culver City residents...
Los Angeles, CA - Emmy Award winner and Kennedy Center Honoree Debbie Allen and the Debbie Allen Dance Academy (DADA) in association with The Annenberg Foundation presents its award-winning family spectacular 'Hot Chocolate Nutcracker' on Friday, November 19th at 7pm PST at the Drive-Up Santa Monica Airport. This year's "Hot Chocolate Nutcracker" Gala performance is written, directed and choreographed by Allen and will mark the return of this new holiday classic in the wake of COVID-19. In this...
The Best Food, Wine & Spirits Festival in Los Angeles is back this fall on November 7th, 2021, benefiting the Westside Food Bank http://wsfb.org/ After a year off due to the pandemic, the festival is returning and at a new venue, The Automobile Driving Museum (5 minutes from LAX Airport). Festivities will take place both inside the museum and outside. There will be full access to the Museum with many antique/classic cars for photo opportunities & Free car rides til 3:30pm, Live & DJ Music, strolling magic by Paul the psychic magician who got...
Just three weeks ago, the Los Angeles Chargers were 4-1, in first place in the AFC West division, and looking like a playoff football team. They were rolling with one of the top passing attacks in the NFL. Three weeks later, the Chargers are struggling to score points and move the football. On Sunday at SoFi Stadium, the New England Patriots handed the Chargers their second consecutive loss, 27-24. The loss dropped the Chargers to 4-3 for the season, one full game behind the Las Vegas Raiders...
The Los Angeles Rams have done it again. In pursuit of Super Bowl LVI to be decided at SoFi Stadium in February, the Rams acquired future Hall of Fame linebacker and edge rusher Von Miller from the Denver Broncos. While the rest of the NFL contenders decided to stand pat before this past Tuesday's trading deadline, Rams General Manager Les Snead and Head Coach Sean McVay went all in to increase the team's chances of not leaving the confines of SoFi throughout the 2021 postseason. "I think Les...
How do you know when you are witnessing the birth of a great rivalry? Do you walk away floored and impressed by athletic feats? The lucky fans that saw the Los Angeles Chargers drop a 27-24 game to the New England Patriots witnessed more than another football game -- they are at the spear's tip of the next great NFL rivalry. Bill Belichick has found a new young and promising quarterback to harass. Justin Herbert fell to 0-2 against the greatest head coach in NFL history. Last year, Belichick and...
The Centaurs will begin their 2021 CIF Playoff quest in the desert town of Indio. Culver City High Football will travel roughly 140 miles to Shadow Hills High for this Friday night's Division 6 Round 1 matchup. (Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m.) The Centaurs (6-3) finished second in the Bay League while the Knights (8-2) finished third in Desert Empire League. The contest promises to be a contrast of styles. Culver City ended the regular season with a 27-0 shutout victory over Santa Monica High last Friday at...
Former Culver City high school's All-State quarterback is having a great season at Bryant University. This week he was named to Stats Perform FCS Jerry Rice watch list as one of the best freshman football players in the nation. In eight games this season he has thrown for 1605 yards and 13 touchdowns with only two interceptions. The LAFC soccer team is 12-12 with nine ties. They are currently in ninth place in the Western Conference and their last game of the regular season is Sunday against...
Halloween weekend continued to bring about spooky times for the USC Trojans football program. They fired their head coach two games into the season. The program continued to sputter after the firing and to make things considerably worse, the Trojans lost their best player for the remainder of the season. Last Saturday's 41-31 win over the Arizona Wildcats, in what has been an already ghastly season for USC, the Trojans' year got more ghoulish after they lost wide receiver Drake London for the...
STAMFORD, Conn. – November 3, 2021 – Wide receiver Rayshon Luke (Bellflower, California/ St. John Bosco H.S.), the four-star prospect, was officially honored today as a 2022 All-American during a virtual jersey presentation as part of the eighth episode of the Road to the Dome digital series. The episode was released tonight at 8 p.m. ET on the NBC Sports YouTube channel. Additional All-Americans featured in the episode include Taariq Al-Uqdah, George Fitzpatrick, Elijah Pritchett, Griffin Scr...
STAMFORD, Conn. – November 3, 2021 – Linebacker Taariq Al-Uqdah (Inglewood, California/ Inglewood H.S.), the Washington State University commit, was officially honored today as a 2022 All-American during a virtual jersey presentation as part of the eighth episode of the Road to the Dome digital series. The episode was released tonight at 8 p.m. ET on the NBC Sports YouTube channel. Additional All-Americans featured in the episode include George Fitzpatrick, Rayshon Luke, Elijah Pritchett, Gri...
A New Jersey woman captured video of her Halloween decorations being raided by an unusual thief -- a pumpkin-loving bear. Kelly Stephens said she initially screamed when she saw the bear approaching the front porch of her Morris County home. "I guess my screaming scared him off, so I ran to get my phone and then when I came back, he slowly proceeded to come back to capture the pumpkin," Stephens told WCBS-TV. Stephens' video shows the bear creeping up to the house, grabbing a pumpkin in its...
By Alyssa Erdley, Observer Staff Writer 10.24.21: Early Sunday morning, a dead body was removed from the alley behind 1423 Third Street Promenade. Police set up yellow tape while two women from the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office wrapped the body and carted it away. The process was swift. The dead body was near Parking Garage 6 and the Downtown Santa Monica Inc. Ambassador office. Lieutenant Rudy Flores of the Santa Monica Police released this statement: "This morning, October 24, 2021 at...
By Chanin Victor, Observer Food Editor Have you ever walked by a restaurant and the sweet scents emanating from within were so intoxicatingly delicious that you felt like you had to have whatever they were cooking right then? In this instance, the not-so-subtle smells come from the burning almond wood chef Jonah Johnson uses in his kitchen at his new restaurant, appropriately named Jonah's Kitchen. On Wilshire and 26th in Santa Monica, the incredibly welcoming atmosphere of the restaurant...
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District will present the findings of the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Malibu Middle and High School (MMHS) specific plan project at a virtual and in-person community meeting next Tuesday, Nov. 2. The meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in the multipurpose room at the former Juan Cabrillo Elementary School (JCES) campus, located at 30237 Morning View Drive in Malibu. The proposed project will redevelop and modernize the former JCES and the existing MMHS campus with the goal of creating...
