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Whether it’s Take-Out, Delivery, and Catering! Cantalini’s Express is your corporate drop-off and holiday catering expert. Recently Voted ‘Best Caterer’ by the 2014 Hometown News reader poll. The Cantalini’s Express restaurant on the Westside offers the same great homestyle Italian dishes made at Cantalini's Salerno Beach Restaurant in Playa del Rey. Quick service lunch menu, homemade pastas, New York style Hand-Tossed Pizza, Calzone, garden fresh salads, delicious Italian Sandwiches, and homemade desserts are made fresh daily! Our recently exp...
As is being widely reported in the press, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) experienced a significant system disruption on Monday, November 24. SPE has determined that the cause of the disruption was a brazen cyber attack. After identifying the disruption, SPE took prompt action to contain the cyber attack, engaged recognized security consultants and contacted law enforcement. SPE learned on December 1 that the security of certain personally identifiable information about its current and former employees, and their dependents, that...
The Culver City Police Department Traffic Unit, as part of the Los Angeles County Avoid DUI Task Force, will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License Checkpoint on Saturday 12/27/14 at an undisclosed location within the city limits between the hours of 7 pm. to 2:30 a.m. The deterrent effect of DUI checkpoints is a proven resource in reducing the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol or drug involved crashes. Research shows that crashes involving an impaired driver can be reduced by up to...
The Culver City Julian Dixon Library will be closed effective January 5, 2015 for a library renovation. The county has set up an Express Library to pick up and return materials at the Mayme A. Clayton Museum, 4130 Overland Ave. in Culver City, The library is scheduled to reopen in early 2016. Funding will be provided by Los Angeles County Supervisor for the Second District Mark Ridley-Thomas and the Culver City Friends of the Library. Those needing full library services can also visit the following nearby libraries: • Lloyd Taber-Marina del R...
In an effort to stem the rise in impaired driving crashes traditionally seen around the holiday period the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) announces the start of the December DUI Crackdown, which will continue through Jan. 1. The crackdown kickoff coincided with the launch of the agency's designated driver mobile app, DDVIP. "This is a time which should be for families and celebrations, not for tragedies on our roadways," said OTS Director Rhonda Craft. "It is easy to avoid a DUI arrest or crash - don't drive impaired. Designate a...
By Steven Lieberman Observer Reporter The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) opened its "Baroque Conversations" series on Thursday at Zipper Concert Hall at The Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles. It was a special affair honoring James Arkatov, artistic founder of LACO and original member of the cello section. There was a champagne toast for him at the pre-concert reception attended by musical director/conductor Jeffrey Kahane and then Arkatov kicked things off by saying a few words of...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter "... We sittin' in here, I'm supposed to be the franchise player and we in here talkin' about practice. I mean listen, we talkin' bout practice. Not a game, not a game, not a game. "We talkin' bout practice. Not a game, not a, not a, not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like its my last. Not the game. We talkin' bout practice, man. I mean how silly is that? We talkin' bout practice..." Allen Iverson's universally misunderstood but...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor When the National Basketball Association revealed its list of the 50 greatest players of all time I was on the selection committee. When the list was made public, unfortunately so was the balloting of every committee member. For years afterward several players who weren't chosen confronted me to ask me why I didn't vote for them. Really, it was an impossible task. There were 70 or 80 deserving players. No amount of research allowed me to feel comfortable about...
By Mitch Chortkoff Sports Editor In 1998 the Dodgers traded away Mike Piazza in what immediately became the most unpopular move in their Los Angeles history. Last week the Dodgers traded away Matt Kemp, and judging by initial reactions this is going to rival Piazza’s departure as the worst decision the club has made. Conditions are different. In 1998 new Dodger owners were trying to make a point that they were not going to cave in to players’ salary demands. Piazza’s contract had expired and n...
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the shelter, The Twelve Pets of Christmas were in need of a helper. For although these Twelve Pets have so much to offer, These groups are ignored when it comes to adopters. Group One is adult cats, aged nine months and up. Why adopt only kittens? They're cute, but grow up! Fully grown cats need forever homes too, Could one of these cats make its new home with you? The next group of pets (and this one astounds): Big, lovable dogs weighing...
Thomas Castenada Esquivel, Jr, 53, passed away on November 17. He was born on October 6, 1961 in Santa Monica to Thomas C. Sr. and Maria Rachel Esquivel, both deceased. Thomas lived in Culver City his entire life. He graduated from Palisades High in 1980. After high school he attended West Los Angeles College and Santa Monica College with interest in Administration of Justice. Thomas was well known in the Automotive Industry. He worked for more than 30 years at various automotive shops and...
The Culver City Lions Club served free meals to seniors Thanksgiving Day at the Culver City Senior Center. Sorrento Italian Market donated the turkey, Miss America Pageant Director Lynn Miller coordinated performances by two local winning candidates, and Culver Center Flowers donated flowers. Photo 1022: Local seniors enjoy company at the Culver City Lions Club Thanksgiving Meal held at the Culver City Senior Center. Photo 1039: Culver City Lions President Dick Sharpe, standing next to Lions...
By Martin Zucker Special to the Observer You wouldn’t think of an attorney’s office as the setting of a holiday toy giveaway to needy kids. The Law Offices of Hinden and Breslavsky, on the corner of Pico and Rimpau, is indeed just that kind of place in the month of December. For the past seven Decembers Barry Hinden, the firm’s president, has converted his file-and-book-filled library into a literal “toyland” for the children of his clients, most of whom are Latino workers who have been injured on the job. “We don’t want the children of our cli...
