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1am Culver City Car Show Opens 10- 10:45 am Open ceremonies - National Anthem Introduction of Dignitaries & City Council 11am The Red Surf Band 12:30 pm 310 2 pm Black Sabbitch 3:15 pm Trophy Ceremony 4 pm Culver City Car Show Closes...
Your high school teacher gives you a project: Find something important to you, then research the subject. Write it up, get it peer-reviewed by fellow students. Ultimately, students were asked to choose which subjects were most significant to them. Then take what you think is important, and write a compelling letter to the editor. Thanks to Culver City High School teacher Kathleen Rowley, and her ninth-grade students, we've decided to publish some the letters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
Thank you, Colin. And thanks to the Chamber for organizing this lunch. It has truly been an honor to serve as your Mayor for the past year. I would most importantly like to thank my wife Rafia and daughters for all their love, support and understanding as I served our great city for the last eight years. -- Earlier this month I represented Culver City at a conference in Austin, Texas, sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, where over 30 mayors from around the U.S. –and around the w...
Love, timeless, ageless. But is it good for us? It can hurt. Surely you get that from country western songs. Moon, June, tune, spoon, it's all good, and then it's not. Is it truly better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? If you're lucky enough to have someone to love, or something to love, then you are indeed lucky. "Could it be otherwise?" Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the American poet and San Francisco bookshop owner, once said to me, albeit in a different context. He looked...
I decided to spend my birthday soaking in good news. Sunshine and laughter: a lovely way to spend one's birthday. * In Quebec, a six-year-old autistic boy was so super-sensitive it hurt to have his hair touched. Franz Jacob, a barber, grabbed his tools, following the boy around his hair salon, even laying down on the floor when the boy did, to keep cutting. The boy's mother was so grateful, she put the barber's photo online. * Prison inmates around the world, competing to be the most compassiona...
I decided to spend my birthday soaking in good news. Sunshine and laughter: a lovely way to spend one's birthday. * In Quebec, a six-year-old autistic boy was so super-sensitive it hurt to have his hair touched. Franz Jacob, a barber, grabbed his tools, following the boy around his hair salon, even laying down on the floor when the boy did, to keep cutting. The boy's mother was so grateful, she put the barber's photo online. * Prison inmates around the world, competing to be the most compassiona...
According to the New York Post, Wells Fargo’s reputation took another hit on Friday, April 22, 2017 when the bank admitted its practice of opening phony customer accounts started back in 2002 not in 2009 as first reported. For all you coffee drinkers keep your eyes peeled on the food store circulars, because coffee futures in New York driven by worldwide crop gluts touched a ten year low recently. Don’t get the person with the gavel upset; a judge said VW was guilty of deliberate and mas...
It's that time again! Time for the LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL. And what a festival 2017 should prove to be! Returning for the second year to its latest home base in the Heart of Screenland - Culver City - and running from June 14th through 22nd, filmmakers and fans alike will once again be blanketed by some of the richest history cinema has to offer, starting with the festival's storied location. Adding an even greater element of cinematic magic to the proceedings is that Culver City is currently...
On the first night of two shows at the Hollywood Bowl, Dead & Company had a chemistry that was palpable. As soon as founding Grateful Dead member Bob Weir started singing "Shakedown Street," the first song of the concert, audience members knew that they were in for a treat and a night filled with magic. Two other founding members on drums, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, got help from John Mayer on lead guitar and vocals, Jeff Chimenti on keyboards, and Oteil Burbridge on bass. I have a...
Perhaps you just know a member of the family or a friend who would like to be in law enforcement. Well, tell that lucky person to gas up his/her car and drive to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office in Florence, Arizona where there are 65 vacant positions. If you or your friends or your family could not come up with the money to get a second opinion on the DNA then expect to spend a long, long, long time locked up. For example, a man is suing two months in a sexual assault case because of a DNA m...
We live in uncertain times but of one thing you can be sure: Sunday, May 7, 2017 the Culver City Senior Center was clearly the place to be for an entertaining and exciting display of lovely ladies exuding charm and elegance. The nine contestants, collectively dubbed The Fan-tastics, lit up the packed room as they competed for the title of Ms. Culver City Elegance. With the co-sponsorship of Culver City Senior Citizens Association (CCSCA) and Culver City Exchange Club, this new tradition that...
Winning took a back seat in a Saturday afternoon baseball game at Culver City High on March 18. The Centaurs eventually outlasted a resilient and courageous South High Torrance team, 5-4. Earlier, both teams had gathered in the infield for a moment of silence before the first pitch was thrown. "South had a shortstop, Jesse (Esphorst, Jr.), who passed away in a car accident two weeks ago. They had a game that day and the next day he's gone. It's real sad. Our prayers go to his family and the...
It was a beautiful evening in Nice, France, last July 14 with 30,000 peoplewatching the fireworks celebrating Bastille Day, the French national holiday. Suddenly and without warning, a terrorist drove a 19-ton cargo truck through police barriers into the pedestrian zone of La Promenade des Anglais, mowing down dozens of spectators. Culver City resident Greg Krentzman, his wife Sophie and their nine-year-old daughter Lola, who attends Linwood E. Howe Elementary School, were in the path of the...
Has it been a year already that some hacker stole personnel details of 30,000 employees at the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI? Someone was asleep at the switch. It was in 1908, a year after my dad was born, that the New York City’s Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance prohibiting women from smoking in public. Everybody remembers from their American History class President Rutherford B. Hayes, but did you remember in 1879 he signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court? Once again for the nin...
Genesis Open Pre-Tournament Complete Interview: JASON DAY Currently #1 - World Golf Rankings February 14, 2017 JOHN BUSH (PGA Tour Media Official): We would like to welcome World No. 1 Jason into the interview room here at the Genesis Open. Jason, coming off of a tie for fifth place last week at Pebble, if we can just get the state of your game coming into Los Angeles. JASON DAY: It feels all right. I mean, the short game's coming along nicely, which is great. Chipping and putting seems likes it...
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...
“NO OPERATING SYTEM FOUND”. Four frightening words you never want to see on your computer. Debuting on my screen yesterday; my beloved laptop is sick. Which explains why I’m sitting here in the library writing this. What, I’m not the only person who doesn’t have a spare computer just lying around? Yesterday’s grief brings today’s miracle: the library! They have computers (26 of them). They have laptops (yours for two hours). They even have a private room (small) (but with air conditioning)...
A 33-year-old man was killed and his eight-year-old son was injured on Saturday when a car, allegedly stolen in Santa Monica, crashed into a vehicle driven by the victim. The car was being pursued by Culver City Police at the time of the crash. The victim, Jorge Banda, was pronounced dead at the scene. His son was transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The chase and subsequent crash started at approximately 11 am as officers from the Culver City Police Department...
In November vote for our firefighters, our paramedics and our police and against the power-grabbing politicians who just want their $250,000 salaries and $200,000 pensions. It seems as though in every area of the human experience ladies are making headway. More and more jobs are becoming available and the salary gap is narrowing. Why, even the U.S. Navy SEALS will have females next year. So why is it that in the Culver City fire house in the past 100 years no progress has been made? That’s r...
The Culver City Mayor Jim B. Clark was honored Friday, August the 12th at Meridian of Cheviot Hill's Grand Opening, with a Lifetime Achievement Award given by the World Wide Corporation of Meridian Senior Living and by the creators of the ground breaking senior activity program, "Seniors on the Move Today". Mayor Jim B. Clark was honored openly for a lifetime of consistently lending a hand to those in need and the care he shows for all the wonderful people of Culver City. Meridian of Cheviot...
I'm talking with M., a friend in England, about the hideous violence in Orlando. "Well, you know, it's America." he said. That bothered me. I launched into various rational reactions, but inside, I felt hurt. My country right or wrong, and all that? No, I wouldn't. Yet it's undeniable: people in other countries look at us as if we're aliens. OK, in the UK, no one is allowed to own a gun. The police don't carry guns. The news is not filled with gun violence. But we're the United States. There's...
I'm talking with M., a friend in England, about the hideous violence in Orlando. "Well, you know, it's America." he said. That bothered me. I launched into various rational reactions, but inside, I felt hurt. My country right or wrong, and all that? No, I wouldn't. Yet it's undeniable: people in other countries look at us as if we're aliens. OK, in the UK, no one is allowed to own a gun. The police don't carry guns. The news is not filled with gun violence. But we're the United States. There's a...
The car belonging to the Gunman who shot Professor William Klug at UCLA last Wednesday was found on Washington Place in Culver City. Mainak Sarkar reportedly shot and killed his wife in Minnesota then drove to Culver City where he dumped his car in the neighborhood where he lived in the Culver City area. Police believe he walked down to Sepulveda Blvd where he took Culver CityBus Line 6 up Sepulveda Blvd to UCLA where he shot the professor and then turned the gun on himself and committed...
The 13th Annual Culver City Car Show was a rousing success despite two major changes. First, the passing of Car Legend George Barris "The King of Kustomizers" who was a perennial figure at the show named after him. Second, the weather, each year the visitors are subject to the hottest day in spring. This year however the organizers were concerned about a rainout. The clouds gathered and dumped rain on other parts of the Southland but the show was spared with little more than a morning drizzle...
The State of California will open the third veterans’ cemetery on 78 acres at Seaside in Monterey Country. Planned for 5,000 burial sites on the old Ford Ord reservation, it’s free for the veteran, but to bury a spouse or dependent children of an eligible veteran, a fee will apply. Sacramento is in the planning stage for the fourth cemetery, which will be in Southern California. Currently there are nine national cites operated by the Federal government, five of which are open for burials. Cal...
