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Two weeks ago a Culver City Middle School student brought an unloaded handgun to school to show off and intimidate his fellow students. Though no one was hurt, and Culver City police and District personnel cooperated to arrest the student, the episode underscores the importance of the District's on-going anti-bullying efforts. "Having a gun on campus is a very serious matter that we will not tolerate," said Superintendent Patricia Jaffe. "Fortunately, no one was hurt, and the student involved was arrested as soon as we discovered what...
Culver City Police arrested a sixth grader at his home in Culver City after they received reports that he brought a gun to Culver City Middle School. A parent of another student called and told police their child noticed another student with a gun at school that day. The student allegedly brandished the gun in one of the restrooms and pointed it at another student. Officers from the juvenile detective division responded to the home of the alleged student on Tuesday. After searching the house, police found a handgun and arrested the child. The...
Police Blotter June 5 through 11 Attempt Commercial Burglary: On June 5 at 3:35 pm, officers responded to the 3900 block of Sawtelle Boulevard regarding a burglary investigation. The officers met with the victim who told them the following; she said her husband responded to the location to retrieve his car at 7:30 am which was parked in the rear lot. As he arrived he saw that the rear door was ajar he checked the door and discovered the door had been forced open, but the interior security was still locked and secured and the suspect(s) were...
To paraphrase Edgar Allan Poe's own descriptive terms in The Tell-Tale Heart, what many may mistake for my own madness is but over-acuteness of the senses when it comes to THE RAVEN. In a phrase, A MASTERPIECE! Thanks to an inventive, intriguing and intricately twisting script courtesy of scribes Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare, which is exquisitely showcased and brought to life by director James McTeigue, fact meets fiction during the last days of Poe’s life as he becomes embroiled in a...
September 28 through October 11 Residential Robbery: On September 28, 2011 at 11:15 pm, officers responded to the 11400 block of Diller Avenue regarding a robbery investigation. The officers met with the victim who told them the following; he was getting ready for bed when he noticed a suspect standing in the hallway of his home. The suspect was described as a male black, 5’9 to 6’0, 30-40 years old and facial hair. The suspect then demanded his money, the victim who was in fear for his safety gave the suspect his money and the suspect fled the...
Observer Editor I like country music, so it pleases me that ‘I’ve Never Been So Happy” at the Kirk Douglas Theatre is a two-hour musical with a Western theme. The near capacity crowd at the Sunday matinee agreed if we can judge from the frequent applause and occasional ovations. But if you object to raw language that isn’t necessary it may not be for you. I thought the play would have been better without the four-letter words. However, I’ve seen a lot of plays at the Kirk Douglas and this one...
By Mitch Chortkoff Observer Editor Shortly after I entered the Kirk Douglas Theatre Saturday afternoon to see “The Method Gun” ushers approached the audience with a pencil and slip of paper. We were asked to write the name of a teacher who had inspired us early in life, someone who made a difference. The play began and for the next 90 minutes there was no mention of the request. The play was about a popular teacher who suddenly departed for South America, leaving her students and former stu...
Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group, has set the 2011-2012 season at CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre. The new season is the eighth at the theater in Culver City and will feature four productions and the popular DouglasPlus programming. It will run from September 17, 2011, through June 2012. The new season will include the poignant storytelling of Charlayne Woodard in her newest play, “The Night Watcher”; the riveting Ebony Repertory Theatre production of Lorraine Hansb...
Anyone familiar with Anton Corbijn' s photography recognizes and appreciates his austere, simple, yet powerful, elegance - particularly with his black & white or tint works. He has a very metaphoric eye which enables him to tell an entire story with one frame, evoking and provoking introspective thought and emotion, a gift that bodes well for his transition to film. He needs no words to tell a story, something that makes him the perfect director for THE AMERICAN. Based on Martin Booth's novel...
There is often nothing more evocative, or provocative, then the blend of teenage angst, money, madness, absent parenting, the pretense and pretend of early adulthood, too much freedom, a lack of accountability and responsibility, alcohol, sex and drugs. Just take a look at what’s on television every week, or look at many of the teens in high school today in certain areas of the country. 20+ years ago, "Less Than Zero" captured the decadence and heartbreak of this teenaged turmoil with a t...
The Actors' Gang WTF?! Festival continues with sScheduled events including Documentary Tuesdays, Film Wednesdays, Theater Thursdays, Fun Fridays, and Music Saturdays. All proceeds benefit The Actors' Gang's community outreach programs. Visit the website at www.wtffestival.comfor the most up-to-date schedule and line-up. This week: Thursday, November 5 at 8 pm (Bar opens at 7 pm) - Dance troupe, MENTAL HEAD CIRCUS and HOOPDAWGZ, create an intoxicating vaudeville circus that pulses with dance, humor, hula hoops and bawdy allure. - $15 Friday,...
Ten years ago a cult phenomena was borne from the fertile imagination of Troy Duffy. Essentially an ode to vigilante justice, a topic on which Duffy speaks quite passionately (as he does about filmmaking) harkening back to the Bible and certain circumstances which warrant “an eye for an eye”, the stories of Duffy and the Boondock Saints are themselves the things on which Hollywood legend is made. A bartender/barback, the magical light of Harvey Weinstein shone down from above, blessing Duf...
In “Eclipsed,” a tormenting yet humorous new play by Danai Gurira ("In the Continuum") at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, the theme of survival during the bleakest of circumstances is driven home. Gurira's revelatory work, set during the brutal 2003 Liberian civil war, takes a powerful look at the travails of African women treated as human chattel. Based on interviews that Gurira conducted in Africa, "Eclipsed" examines the plights of women captured and held in a battlefront camp as...
