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Kentwood Players proudly presents THE IMAGINARY INVALID by Molière, an outrageous satire of medicine and its practitioners, opening Friday, January 13 through Saturday, February 18, 2017 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester. There will be a champagne and dessert reception between 7 pm and 7:30pm for season subscribers and members attending the Saturday, January 14 performance. The production is directed...
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald and punter Johnny HekkerJOHNNY were named to the 2017 NFL Pro Bowl, the team announced today. Both Donald and Hekker are each making their third trip to the NFL's annual all-star game, which will feature a return to the traditional AFC vs. NFC game format following three years using a revised, "unconferenced" format. With his invitation, Donald is the first Rams player to earn three consecutive Pro Bowl trips since Torry Holt put t...
Bernard Hopkins, 51, the future hall-of-fame boxer with an illustrious professional career spanning four decades left the ring for the very last time in spectacular fashion. Unfortunately on Saturday night, December 17, it wasn't the kind of spectacular he and his fans had dreamt about. Rising contender Joe Smith, 27, stunned a partisan and packed crowd at The Forum in Inglewood when he delivered a combination that sent Hopkins through the ropes for an eight-round TKO in the scheduled 12-round...
At a recent meeting the members of the Culver City Woman's Club presented 50 stuffed bears, which they made during a year-long project using donated materials, to the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to be given to children in foster care. When children are removed from their homes in emergency situations they are abruptly introduced to foster care and have to cope with the trauma of a sudden separation. Being given a bear that they can cling to and keep with them provides some...
Parents at Culver City Middle School are holding an end-of-year fundraising drive to purchase audio systems to improve the learning environment in every classroom on campus. When CCMS teachers were asked what the community could do to help, improved classroom audio came out at the top of the list. Currently, most classrooms are only equipped with small computer speakers, making it difficult for students to hear instructional media. Teachers across the spectrum agree on the importance of this...
Playwright, actor and director Tim Crouch will join the cast of the American premiere of "Adler & Gibb," a co-commission by Center Theatre Group with the Royal Court Theatre in London. Written and directed by Crouch and co-directed with Andy Smith and Karl James, the DouglasPlus presentation of "Adler & Gibb" will run January 17 to 29 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. The opening will be on January 18. The cast includes Crouch as Sam, Gina Moxley as Margaret Gibb, Jillian Pullara as...
A couple of years ago the new owners of the Dodgers spent $300 million on their roster, the highest amount in the history of baseball. The Dodgers didn’t get into the World Series and they didn’t get there either the next season. That could have been the reason the Dodgers didn’t compete hard enough for several elite free agent pitchers last season and lost a chance to get into the World Series. But a few days ago the Dodgers showed the baseball world they’re serious about putting a highly...
Recently I had some spare time so I looked through my filing cabinet containing some issues of the Culver City News as well as the Culver City Observer from 2006. From March 2, 2006, Scott Malsin was running for City Council with the election on April 11, 2006. Also, on Page 1 Jeff Cooper and his supporters were marching to keep the city from uprooting 13.000 square feet of grass for the skateboard park that was scheduled to be built later that year. Furthermore, on Page 1 City Parks...
Paul Goldstein, General Manager of Hillside Memorial Park, was selected to be the Culver City Chamber of Commerce's Chair of the Board for 2017. Goldstein as General Manager of Hillside heads one of the Culver City Areas largest not for profit organizations. Hillside Memorial Park has been on Centinela Ave since 1941 and became a part of Culver City in a 1964 annexation. Serving with Goldstein this year on the Executive Committee is Janice Beighey, the third generation owner of Tower Insurance A...
The Culver City Council voted 5-0 to direct city staff to prepare an ordinance banning single-use polystyrene containers, also known as Styrofoam and other utensils at local restaurants. Polystyrene is a petroleum based product that is used to make hard plastics or "expanded" by joining together small beads to create the finished product. The council declined a move to ban retail stores from selling hard plastic ware, including cups, plates, cutlery and the like. Should Culver City approve the...
Culver City High's AVPA Dance Program performed on one of the world's most exclusive stages last Friday Night: Google Venice Beach. But they didn't do it alone. The school's Girls Who Code club did all the legwork, and together these two student groups combined to put on an epic performance for hundreds of Southern California high schoolers interested in computer science and its limitless possibilities.. Just a week ago Google teamed with iLuminate – makers of codable dance suits – and app...
The Help Group’s winter camp provides a safe and enriching atmosphere for children, teens, and young adults with autism spectrum disorder and other special needs. The four unique day camps, which will run in Sherman Oaks and Culver City from December 19 to 23 create opportunities to engage, experience, and explore. Each camp strives to developmentally and chronologically match each camper across the spectrum to ensure an appropriate peer group for learning and fun. Campers will participate in a wide variety of fun activities, such as art p...
Should cheating be a menu option? "Burgers, fries - and our special today is cheating". Can you imagine? No? Then what's happening in this country? It's shocking that what is shocking is no longer shocking. Oh, their cheating hearts! Russia and the Olympic athletes, passing their urine thorugh a small hole low down on the wall, then even after switching it for a competitor's un-doped urine, adding the secret ingredients of salt or water to make it conform to earlier samples? With the South...
In all fairness, I should begin by admitting that one of the reasons I’ve been a hockey fan for so many years is because it’s a serious contact sport and it moves fast, waiting for no one. However, one of the most frightening sights is seeing a player checked from behind, sending the player head first into the boards hard enough to snap their head back. Generally this kind of hit drops the player to the ice, unconscious or significantly dazed. One of the issues I have with the current NHL Com...
'Fast and furious' news spread quickly from the Los Angeles Rams on Monday. "Obviously, a very difficult day here for the organization in relieving Jeff (Fisher) of his head coaching duties. It's not a decision that you ever want to make and it's a day you never want to come, as a group," began Rams Executive Vice President of Football Operations and Chief Operating Officer Kevin Demoff. The hammer finally came down on Jeff Fisher's five-year tenure as the Rams' head coach. The team had just...
Don't look now but the USC and UCLA women's basketball teams are duplicating what the men's teams are doing. The UCLA men are 11-0 and ranked No. 2 in the nation and the USC men are 9-0 and ranked No. 24. The USC women are 7-1 and the No. 9 UCLA women are 8-1. The UCLA women have a veteran team that can win games from the outside and inside. They are led by guards Kari Korver and Jordin Canada and forwards Monique Billings and Keli Hayes. Korver is an outstanding three point shooter and Canada...
Long a fan of Patricia Highsmith's novels, it is always with much trepidation that I approach cinematic adaptations. Known for complexity, psychological intrigue, depth and richness to her works, translating the literary layers from the mind's eye to the big screen is challenging at best. Last year's "Carol" was exquisitely adapted for the screen by Phyllis Nagy, so much so as to deliver even more depth and emotional texture in the relationship between the characters than what we felt on the pag...
