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Summer breezes... an intimate courtyard... free parking... and great music. Escape to Culver City for the 2017 Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival. Boulevard Music presents six free concerts on Thursday evenings at 7 pm from July 6 through August 10 in the palm-lined courtyard of Culver City City Hall. Curated by producer Gary Mandell of Culver City’ s Boulevard Music, Culver City’ s Boulevard Music Summer Festival offers something for everyone: Country/Bluegrass music from 2016 Grammy nominated Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands (July...
By Chelsea Maynard Kid Scoop Media Reporter Culver City High School This past weekend I attended the LA Pride Festival in West Hollywood. I was working as a kid reporter for KSM Kid Scoop Media. I had the pleasure of interviewing both the sponsors and people attending the festival about what Pride means to them. One of the festival sponsors I interviewed was SoCal Lutherans Churches. I spoke with Kristan Kohler, who is currently attending seminary school. Kohler said that the goal for the SoCal...
By Fred Altieri Sports Reporter Graduating student athletes were honored last week at the 2016-17 Culver City High Senior Athlete of the Year Banquet. More than 50 seniors received the prestigious Dave Sanchez Award for excellence in the classroom. In addition, eight senior student athletes were also recognized for receiving scholarships to colleges and universities. "To receive the Dave Sanchez Award each athlete had a 3.5 GPA or higher for all four years attending Culver City High School....
If you're a parent, or someone who's grown up from the elementary school aged to teen/tween years within the past 20 years, you've heard of CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS. Written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey and first published in 1997, the CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS series now includes 12 books, and three spin-offs with 70 million books sold worldwide (including 50 million in the United States alone) and translation into 20 languages. And now Dreamworks Animation brings us CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS: THE FIRST EPIC...
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...
Thomas Wilcox, a sophomore at Culver City High , just completed his Eagle Project. His project, Joseph Tachiki's Backpacks for Kids, provided 80 backpacks filled with school supplies for homeless students who enter Culver City Middle School. The project was named after his best friend, who was also on his way to become an Eagle Scout, who passed away unexpectedly last September. Thomas's goal was to raise $1300, however, due to generous donation from family and friends, he raised over $2800...
Intermediate and high-performance summer volleyball camps for youth will be conducted by the Culver Volleyball Club at the Culver City middle and high school gyms. Youngsters in session one, June 19-22, 4-7 p.m., will learn fundamentals of passing, serving, setting & hitting. The camp is intended for players without experience to those with light experience hoping to start club or competitive school teams, according to camp director Marty Siegal. Youth with limited experience in school or beach volleyball to those with one or two years club exp...
The 2016-17 Culver City High student athletes culminated another successful school year on and off the field. The highlight of the season started in the Fall 2016 when the girls volleyball team won the CIF Division 5 Championship at Cerritos College in November. It was the seventh CIF Championship for Culver High and the first since the girls basketball team won the 2013-14 CIF basketball crown. The girls beat La Reina High in four sets: 25-22, 25-18, 25-20 and 26-24 to win their first CIF...
Fiesta La Ballona, Culver City’s “Party In The Park” will be held August 25-27 at Veterans Park located at 4117 Overland Avenue. The popular Culver City event features carnival rides and games, live performances, over 100 booths spotlighting local organizations as well as featuring artisan wares and other vendors, a petting zoo and pony rides, a beer and wine garden, food trucks and a food court, and other special events. Fiesta La Ballona is bicycle-friendly and strives to be a zero waste event. Admission is free. Fiesta La Ballona is part...
Dr. Kim Indelicato, principal at Linwood E. Howe Elementary School, withdrew her resignation shortly after resigning due to an undisclosed dispute with the school district. The undisclosed dispute produced a plethora of parents and teachers on Monday at the school and a packed house at the school board meeting held in the council chambers at city hall. According to reports the support received on Monday by parents and students made the principal reverse her decision to resign. While most...
Ezykel Audinette, 19, allegedly robbed two Culver City youths of their cell phones on Tuesday. He claimed to have a gun. The robbery happened while the boys were walking along the side of the Ballona Creek near Overland Avenue.. Based on a detailed description by the victims Audinette was arrested Tuesday for allegedly robbing the boys. According to Culver City Police, Detective Ivan Hernandez followed up on leads and identified Audinette as the suspect. Audinette was taken into custody about...
Santa Monica’s New Roads School has been honored with five nominations for the acclaimed Jerry Herman Awards for its Spring 2017 middle and high school musical, In the Heights. These nominations recognize the New Roads production as one of the best secondary school musical theater productions in Los Angeles. New Roads’ nominations include:Best ProductionBest Supporting Actress – Julia Malinow (Daniela)“No Small Parts” Award – Caleb McGee (Piragua Guy)Best Staging and ChoreographyBest Musical Direction The Jerry Herman Awards celebra...
The Culver City High 2017 varsity baseball season finally came to an end roughly 170 miles up the scenic Pacific Coast Highway on Thursday, May 18, in Santa Maria, located in northwest Santa Barbara County. The Centaurs lost 2-1 to the highly ranked Righetti High Warriors in a CIF Division 3 Playoff game. Culver rallied for one run in the seventh inning but came up short against Warrior ace Matt Sauer. Righetti scored both of its runs in the second inning off of Centaur starter Eli Saucedo who...
It was encore performance for the team, the seniors and the school. With a burst of unbridled energy the entire Culver City High baseball team raced from the dugout and engulfed teammate Jason Zeidman in a mass celebration just beyond first base and into right field. The Centaurs had just defeated visiting Oxnard High 3-2 in the 11th inning in the 2017 CIF Playoff play-in game on Tuesday, May 16. For the solid fan base it was nervous time from the first to the very last pitch. For the players...
After an extensive interviewing process among a pool of national caliber candidates Culver City High is pleased to announce the hiring of Reggie Morris, Jr. as its new Head Boys Basketball Coach. Morris has been an Assistant Coach for Division I Loyola Marymount University the past year, after successfully leading Redondo Beach High, St. Bernard High and Leuzinger High to a combined three CIF Championships and one State Title over the course of 14 celebrated years of head coaching success in Southern California. Morris, who developed NBA supers...
It was encore performance for the team, the seniors and the school. With a burst of unbridled energy the entire Culver City High baseball team raced from the dugout and engulfed teammate Jason Zeidman in a mass celebration just beyond first base and into right field. The Centaurs had just defeated visiting Oxnard High 3-2 in the 11th inning in the 2017 CIF Playoff play-in game on Tuesday, May 16. For the solid fan base it was nervous time from the first to the very last pitch. For the players...
The Third and Final Installment of Block Party Will Run For 11 Performances OnlyCenter Theatre Group's Block Party continues with the opening of The Echo Theater Company production of " Dry Land" this Sunday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Written by Ruby Rae Spiegel and directed by Alana Dietze, " Dry Land" will begin previews May 12 and continue for 11 performances through May 21. Block Party highlights some of the remarkable work being done in other, more...
By Mailee Johnson, fifth grader at Linwood E. Howe, and KidScoop Media Scooper. Our schools are very important, they provide an education that helps all the children get inspired for the future. Well, on May 6th, 2017 the Culver City Education Foundation held their thirty-fifth annual Tribute to the Stars at the Culver Studios. They were honoring teachers, volunteers, staff and those who pushed the limit for complete awesomeness. I interviewed Leslie Adler., Executive Director of CCEFQ: Ms....
It was a true cliffhanger at Culver Studios: rain and cold threatened to doom a spectacular effort of verve by CCEF, Culver City's non-profit dedicated to helping students in Culver City. Could the lawn party, held where the grounds survived making "Gone With The Wind," still happen? Would anyone show? Would a year's worth of planning be a washout? "I changed the whole event within 24 hours," Leslie Adler confessed. "Friday morning, we saw the weather and reformatted completely. It's not just a...
After an extensive interviewing process among a pool of national caliber candidates Culver City High is pleased to announce the hiring of Reggie Morris, Jr. as its new Head Boys Basketball Coach. Morris has been an Assistant Coach for Division I Loyola Marymount University the past year, after successfully leading Redondo Beach High, St. Bernard High and Leuzinger High to a combined three CIF Championships and one State Title over the course of 14 celebrated years of head coaching success in...
For more than a century, much of the world has turned a blind eye to the events that transpired in 1914-1915 leading to the onset of the Ottoman Empire's systematic extermination of what would become more than 1.5 million Armenians during world War I and thereafter. As of April 24, 2015, there were more than two million Armenians within the Empire. By 1922, fewer than 400,000. During that time period Armenians were murdered, starved, led on death marches under guise of "deportation". Although...
Although some just might think the election ended in November (and for many it did), for others the preparation for the next Culver City council race just began. We know the reason the conservative Republican group seems to elect their number is because they start early building a resume of achievements and organizations. Unfortunately, the progressive Democrats seem to wait until the last minute and no doubt they will feel their huge plurality makes the election a snap for Demos. Let’s get s...
Working closely with the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, volunteers for the Backpacks for Kids program netted more than $7,600 in food, gift card and monetary donations during their weekend food drive at the Pavilions at 11030 Jefferson Boulevard in Culver City. “We had a tremendous amount of help from the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority,” said Jamie Wallace, co-coordinator of the program. “These gals are dedicated to serving the community, and they sure came through for us. They staffed our drive with volunteers for two straight days, and their enthu...
The GRAMMY Museum® announces that Culver City High and six other economically underserved across the United States have been selected as GRAMMY® Signature Schools Enterprise Award recipients for 2017 and have been awarded cash grants totaling up to $106,500 for their quality music programs. Created in 1998, the GRAMMY Signature Schools program is a GRAMMY in the Schools® initiative that recognizes U.S. public high schools that make an outstanding commitment to music education during an academic school year. “We are honored to receive this speci...
One more Culver City Eagle Scout flew into a crowded Carlson Park nest on Sunday, when 18-year-old Culver High senior Matthew C. Rummelsburg officially joined his father and his older brother to become the proud family's third member to achieve the Boy Scouts of America's highest honor. Matthew Rummelsburg beamed as his mother, Rosalie " Rosie" Odell, pinned the vaunted Eagle Badge of Honor to his uniform in a ceremony at the local Elks Lodge in the 11000 block of Washington Place. His...
