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The following message is from an email to me from the offices of Congresswoman Karen Bass Do you know how many members of Team Trump have left or been forced out? Since Donald Trump took office in January he has hemorrhaged nearly a dozen high level advisers, staffers and cabinet members. From Steve Bannon to Michael Flynn to Sean Spicer to Tom Price, their abuse of power, ineptitude, dishonestly, and ties to foreign governments and white supremacists have led to their departures from the White...
Some experts who follow high school and college basketball closer than I often share their opinions so I can write with intelligence. Lately they’ve shared the news that the NBA doesn’t consider middle Ball brother LeAngelo a first round draft prospect. That’s important news since father Lavar has pulled LeAngelo out of UCLA, blaming them for not handling the case properly when LeAngelo and two teammates were caught stealing at three stores when the Bruin basketball team recently played in Ch...
Culver’s Sequoia Sherriff Is Finalist at YoungArts YoungArts has announced its 2018 winner. They include Sequoia Sherriff (17) from Culver City High School who won for Cinematic Arts. YoungArts winners are 757 of the nation’s most promising young artists in the visual, literary, design and performing arts. Selected through a blind adjudication process conducted by an independent panel of highly accomplished artists, the 2018 winners represent the top 10 percent of applications. Of this year’s 757 winners some have been awarded for excellence in...
In what is a rare display at city hall the council rushed to approve three retail marijuana stores in Culver City. There was much public discussion with those opposed to the stores citing higher crime rates near the stores and the influence it would have on teenagers. Those in favor spoke of the health benefits for people suffering from debilitating illnesses. The vote was 4-1 with Councilman Goran Eriksson voting no. Eriksson has consistently opposed retail cannabis stores in the city....
Sculptor Michael Todd will be featured in the Winter show in the Fine Arts Gallery at West Los Angeles College from December 7 to January 7. Todd creates sculptural works in wood, metal, and clay. His career has spanned 50 years and he has work in many major museums. A reception, free to the public, will be held in the Fine Arts Gallery on Thursday, December 7 from 5 pm to 7. Parking is available in the adjacent parking structure for $2.00 (exact change needed). The show is currated by art...
Culver CityBus has begun to upgrade the City's Bus Stop Furniture. The Project, scheduled to begin this month includes 31 bus stops along Sepulveda Boulevard, a segment of Washington Boulevard (downtown Culver City and Expo Culver City Station area) and the Robertson Transit Hub. The selected stops will have their existing furniture replaced with the new furniture. Barring unanticipated delays the project is scheduled to be completed in February 2018. There will be no construction activities...
In what police thought would be a difficult case to crack, police said a KTLA news story, in which police asked for the public’s assistance in identifying the suspect, resulted in an anonymous tip that led to the suspect’s arrest. Lucian Wayne Bingham-Jackson, 24, of Los Angeles was arrested on Nov. 30 and booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. The run-in occurred about 11 a.m. Oct. 28 when the woman was near Culver and Overland Avenue. The car pulled up alongside her as she hit a red light on Overland between Palm Court and Son...
Men, ages 55 and older, and women, 45 and up, play Sunday mornings at Veterans Park in the Culver City Senior Softball League. New players of all abilities are invited to play in pickup games, 9 a.m. in December and January before the start of the 2018 season, when they can be added to team rosters. Rostered players need not feel obligated to have to participate every Sunday as managers can get substitutes from the free agent pool during the 10-month season. About 100 senior softball players play in the slow-pitch league that provides an...
It was all business in the desert as the Los Angeles Rams defeated the Arizona Cardinals, 32-16, on Sunday, December 3. The game wasn't easy yet the Rams made the final score look easy, improving their 2017 road record to 5-1 and 9-3 overall. The special teams and defense kept the Cards at bay while the Rams scored on six of 11 offensive possessions. The win at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale guaranteed the Rams a winning season for the first time since 2003 when they were 12-4...
The NFL is considered a young man's league, but don't tell NFL quarterbacks that. The top four passing offenses in the NFL are led by veteran quarterbacks: Tom Brady with the New England Patriots is 40 years old. Philip Rivers of the Los Angles Chargers is 35 years old and will turn 36 on December 8. Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints is 38 and Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers is 35. Rivers has been playing the best football of this group over the past three weeks. On Sunday at...
On Wednesday, January 17, 2018 former Vice President of Programs Hope M. Parrish will be taking the helm of the Culver City Historical Society as its next president. Hope is a third-generation motion picture industry professional, following in the footsteps of her grandfather and father as a property master and set decorator. In addition, Hope's maternal grandfather was a special effects man and talented welder for the studios. A graduate of Culver City High, Hope has worked as a property...
UCLA introduced its new football coach, Chip Kelly during a packed press conference on the school's campus last Monday. If you could package the smiles from boosters into victories Kelly would be very successful already but expectations don't translate into wins. "When I came back into coaching I wanted to make sure this was the right fit for me," said Kelly at the press conference on last Monday. "Football is a great game and to be around the right people is the most important thing to me....
Santa Monica Police pursed an assault subject into Culver City on Monday. According to Lt. Saul Rodriguez of the Santa Monica Police Department, at approximately 2:40 pm Oscar Garcia, 38, allegedly assaulted the victim on 16th street in Santa Monica with a metal object, possibly a tire iron, after the two got into an argument. Garcia fled in a truck heading west on Santa Monica Blvd where Santa Monica Police attempted to pull his car over at Ocean Avenue. They chased him into Culver City where...
