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The Lakers announce their participation in the 127th Rose Parade®, designing a float titled Every Second is an Adventure for the annual celebration. The theme of the float represents the importance of each moment in basketball, capturing the excitement of last-second shots and dramatic finishes Lakers fans have and will experience. "The Rose Parade is a timeless tradition on New Year's Day and the Lakers are enthusiastic to celebrate the start of 2016 with the rest of the country in this...
The Culver City High Centaur football team will host the Pacifica High Tritons from Oxnard in a first round CIF Western Division Playoff game starting at 7:00 p.m. this Friday, November 13, at Jerry Chabola Stadium. The Centaurs clinched the 2015 Ocean League title by finishing 4-1 in league competition after beating Beverly Hills High 41-6 on Senior Night at home. Culver took care of matters by scoring four touchdowns in the second half after leading only 14-6 at halftime. Culver City and...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist On June 6 Alex Newman, an experienced grouper tournament fisherman, landed a grouper weighing 124.18 pounds. The fish creating this new world record was caught in the Gulf of Mexico some 60 miles south of Fort Myers. Researchers are working on the venom from leeches, bees and snakes to reduce the pain associated with arthritis. Starting December 1 New York City restaurants will have to disclose on their menu sodium levels. The federal government recommends...
The AVP (Association of Volleyball Professionals) Pro Beach Volleyball Tour announces its year-end award winners recognizing the top performers from the 2015 season. The AVP enjoyed another successful year as the tour continued to flourish in its third full year under the leadership of Donald Sun. The enhanced seven-event 2015 tour schedule reached the nation’s largest markets and beach volleyball hotbeds, including the AVP’s first-ever event in Manhattan (N.Y.) and its long-awaited returns to New Orleans, Seattle and Chicago. The AVP inc...
Young Jean Lee's "Straight White Men," will have its West Coast premiere November 20 – December 20 at the Center Theatre Group/Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. The play will be directed by Lee and presented in collaboration with the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA. The first U.S. performances of the play since The Public Theater presented its New York premiere last fall will feature a cast of Frank Boyd, Richard Riehle, Brian Slaten and Gary Wilmes. "Straight White Men" features s...
The Friends of the Sandy Segal Youth Health Center will have their annual meeting on Thursday, November 19 at 7 p.m. in the Culver City School District Board Room, 4034 Irving Place. The featured speaker will be Stephanie Stillings, Project Manager at the Venice Family Clinic, who will talk about the new Venice Family Clinic Lou Colen Health and Wellness Center. The Center will provide high quality pediatric care for babies, children and teens in the Mar Vista area located next to Culver City. This area is home to thousands of low income...
For more than 30 years the Culver City Senior Citizens Association, Inc. (CCSCA) has worked to spread the spirit of goodwill during the holidays through the Annual Holiday Food Certificate Program. Each year this program helps hundreds of needy people throughout the Culver City area by providing grocery gift cards to those in need. Qualifying families and individuals in need will have the comfort of holiday meals thanks to your generous donations of cash, checks, money orders, and grocery gift cards. Checks or money orders can be made payable...
For CCHS soccer players, the focus is competing and winning at every turn. This year, they’re learning about the importance of giving back and helping developmentally disabled athletes succeed as part of the Prime Time Games program. Created in 2004, the Prime Time Games is a full-inclusion, peer-mentor sports program wherein the students coach and play alongside children with developmental disabilities. The games, the centerpiece of the non-profit Team Prime Time leadership component, give students the opportunity to give back to their c...
Hi Kimberly, Maybe you can help with my current dilemma. I want to buy a vacation home on the beach, close to the one we use that belongs to another family member. That property has two houses and we use one of them. We do repairs and furnish it but since it won’t go to us when she passes, we don’t want to invest into it too heavily financially. Yet, if we built a second level, we would have a view of the ocean and buying our own home wouldn’t be necessary. My partner won’t buy a house until the family member (who owns property) passes and I a...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter What a difference a game makes, a team makes, an unexpected opportunity makes. The Culver City High football team is suddenly in the driver's seat to capture the 2015 Ocean League title following its 35-26 homecoming game victory over Hawthorne High. The Centaurs are also the beneficiaries of a just-announced league ruling concerning Lawndale High forfeiting two league victories this season, over Culver and Santa Monica, due to incomplete and erroneous information...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor The reason Culver City High is suddenly close to becoming the 2015 Ocean League football champion is that Lawndale High has forfeited four victories, including league wins over Culver City and Santa Monica. Coupled with Culver’s victory over Hawthorne last Friday the Centaurs prevail in tiebreakers. With a win over Beverly Hills this Friday Culver would become the champion and most likely would receive a first round playoff home game. The South Bay Daily B...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor This is Los Angeles. The Lakers have won 16 NBA championships. The Dodgers haven’t won a World Series since 1988 but they’ve won their division the last three years. LA fans expect quality. And why not? Our teams can afford what it takes to produce winners. But what’s happening now can’t be happening. Can it? The Dodgers have new owners who had the highest payroll in baseball history in the just-concluded season. But the team wasn’t real good. There were obvi...
The Culver City Woman’s Club is hosting a sale of Unique Jewelry at Special Holiday Prices at its Monday, November 9 meeting at the Fellowship Hall of the Culver Palms Methodist Church, 4464 Sepulveda Blvd. The hours are 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The work to be showcased is from award-winning artist’s Francia Turner Fate’s collection and includes her bold and colorful art glass jewelry as well as striking pearl, sterling silver and gemstone pieces. The Culver City Woman’s Club is a non-profit social and philanthropic organization that support...
Just in time for the holidays the Friends of the Sandy Segal Youth Health Center is pleased to host a holiday boutique sale at the Francia Turner Fate Studio located at 5502 Sawtelle Blvd., Culver City. It will be on Saturday, November 14 from 2 pm to 4. Free parking is located across the street at US Bank. The boutique will include exquisite glasswork, unique paintings, and fashion jewelry by internationally renowned author and artist Francia Turner Fate. This sale features her award-winning children’s books and “Journeys Through Ame...
The Republican Party County Central Committee 54th Assembly District Board meets every second Tuesday of the month. This month the meeting will be held on November 10 at Lenny's Deli, 2379 Westwood Blvd. From 7:30 pm to 9. Guests are welcome. For further information contact Amir Zendehnam (925) 451-0827 or call Lady Cage-Barile (323) 251-5682 Please visit www.cagop54.com...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The UCLA Bruins football team will play the Oregon State Beavers for the first time in three years Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Corvallis. The Bruins, who are coming off a 35-31 win over Colorado last Saturday hope their injuries do not get in the way of their will to win. Against Colorado the Bruins defense was on the field for over 41 minutes in a 60-minute game. The noon kickoff time, plus the 90 degree weather created a combination that produced injuries, cramps...
By Myke Williams Sports Reporter The USC football team is hoping to put together its first three-game winning streak of the 2015 season when it hosts Arizona at the Coliseum Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. The Trojans are 5-3 overall and tied for second place in the Pac-12 south with UCLA with a record of 3-2. Arizona is 5-4 overall and 2-4 in the south division. The Trojans may be without the services of their best wide receiver, JuJu Smith-Schuster for the game on Saturday. Smith-Schuster injured his right hand in the 27-21 win over California...
City Clerk’s Office • IndieCade - The 2015 IndieCade Games Festival took place last weekend. Included were newly developed, free games • • Asian World Film Festival – This Festival will take place at the ArcLight Cinemas in Culver City October 26 through November 2, featuring films from countries all across Asia. The festival provides a unique opportunity to showcase Asian films to the Oscar® Academy, The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and all Guilds for enhanced exposure and awards con...
Stand up and cheer for TRUMBO! Under Jay Roach's direction with an Oscar-worthy script from John McNamara, and thanks to an Oscar caliber performance by Bryan Cranston, TRUMBO celebrates the 1st Amendment and the conviction of one man, with dignity, integrity, courage, bravery and intelligence. The Blacklist. Hollywood Ten. House Un-American Activities Committee. Dalton Trumbo. For many, these are just words, names. There is no historical sense of reference or context, let alone cinematic. But...
By Sandra Coopersmith Features Writer A disabled child is still, first and foremost, a child – and that came through loud and clear at the Culver City Senior Center on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 18 during the 13th Annual Kids Carnival as the premises resounded with their delight. The event was thronged, with 320 participants and 92 volunteers. This free collaborative celebration had its roots in a Disability Awareness Day held in 2001 by the Culver City Neighborhood Girl Scouts. Debbie Cahill and Ci...
By Bosmat Eynav Sports Columnist Lamar – mi amore On days like this with Lamar fighting for his health and the media unfortunately continues to apply its destructive forces, I wanted to show from a more constructive perspective what a special personality and delicate soul resides within Lamar Odom and to try to understand the bigger picture behind the painful life experience that Lamar is going through these days. The first interview I've ever watched with Lamar was conducted by Ralph Lawler, an...
By Stephen Hadland Observer Publisher Culver City Voters elected Kelly Kent with 41% of the votes and Anne Allaire Burke with almost 32% to the Culver City Unified School District Board on Tuesday. They will replace Nancy Goldberg and Laura Chardiet. Burke and McVarish ran as a team endorsed and supported by an organization called United Parents of Culver City while Kent was supported by a group called Culver City Community Coalition. Both organizations appear to be a loosely organized group of...
