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Center Theatre Group has selected three local productions for the inaugural Block Party: Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Block Party will remount Coeurage Theatre Company's production of "Failure: A Love Story" by Philip Dawkins, Echo Theater Company's production of "Dry Land" by Ruby Rae Spiegel and Fountain Theatre's production of "Citizen: An American Lyric" by Claudia Rankine and adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs. Each production will have a...
Bo Jackson To Be Honored With A Scouts Dream Award At Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation’s 14th Annual Fundraiser One of the greatest professional athletes, Bo Jackson, will be honored with “A Scouts Dream Award, at the 14th annual Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation’s “In the Spirit of the Game” Spectacular on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Vincent Edward Jackson, also known as “Bo”, was certainly a scouts dream as the Auburn University superstar out of McCalla, Alabama impressed scouts and fans alike with hi...
Editor’s note: Alan Tapley is the parent of two female swimmers, ages 12 and 14. Over the past eight years he has been with them at hundreds of meets and practices. He has had countless conversations with swimmers about what they would like the public to know about their pursuit of this grueling sport. The Tiger Parent. Your world is your young swimmer, and the only thing that matters is making sure that everything is as it needs to be for their ultimate success. When your swimmer is on deck you are fixing the hood on their swim parka to keep t...
Singer, songwriter, composer, pianist and living legend Neil Sedaka will bring his famous catalogue of music to the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on January 14 on his exclusive 12-city concert tour. Sedaka, 77, will be singing all of his big hits, which include "Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen," "Calendar Girl," "Laughter in the Rain," "Solitaire," "Love Will Keep Us Together (also a No. 1 hit for Captain & Tennille)," and "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do," among many others. When Sedaka was not...
When we got wind of the opportunity to cover holiday decorations at the White House for KSM KidScoop Media, We thought, “Well, this will be fun, but’s it a bit of a soft news story. The Obamas have so much to teach us. What are we going to learn from holiday decorations?” But as soon as we arrived, read the press release and toured the White House we realized that nothing Mrs. Obama does is without a purpose, a message, or a mission for social good. For this 2016 White House Christmas, the overall theme is “The Gift of the Holidays,” which ref...
Culver City’s 12th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration event will take place on Saturday, January 14, at 11 am at the Culver City Senior Center, 4095 Overland Avenue in Culver City. “I’m looking forward to this celebration in honor of Dr. King and in recognition of his contributions and accomplishments as a Civil Rights leader. I want to thank the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Committee, for its outstanding efforts in planning this special day,” said Culver City Mayor Jim B. Clarke. The event, which features the film, ...
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...
What does the USC men's basketball team have to do to be recognized? The answer is, keep winning. The Trojans are 8-0 and they are coming off a 91-84 victory over BYU last Saturday at Staples Center, yet they are still on the outside looking in college basketball's top 25 rankings. What's really surprising is USC is producing after six of their top players either transferred or left for the NBA before the 2016-17 season started. To add insult to injury one of their best players, sophomore...
Fidel Castro, Dictator of Cuba, died last Friday after over 50 years of death and destruction of Cuba. On Monday Culver City Congresswoman Karen Bass issued the following statement from her Washington D.C. office regarding the passing of Fidel Castro. “As Cuba begins nine days of mourning, I wish to express my condolences to the Cuban people and the family of Fidel Castro. The passing of the Comandante en Jefe is a great loss to the people of Cuba. I hope together our two nations will c...
I bumped into local photographer, Fabian Lewkowicz, on the bike path next to the Pico-Kenter Storm Drain this past Monday morning at 7:30am. I was in a hurry to get to work, but took my ninth annual “trashy” video of plastic pollutants at the mouth of the storm drain in front of Shutters Hotel. Lewkowicz one-upped me heading seaward across the sand, and ended up capturing what would become viral footage of a dramatic “third flush” of the storm drain. As of Wednesday, 11/23/16 at 2 pm there were...
Culver City Holiday Tree Lighting, the annual downtown event presented by the Downtown Business Association and the City of Culver City in Town Plaza, will take place on Thursday, Dec. 1 at 6 pm. The location is between the Culver Hotel and the ArcLight Cinemas. This year's event will celebrate Culver City's Centennial. The yearlong celebration will culminate in September 2017 when Culver City officially turns 100 years old. See Santa Claus arrive in his sleigh with an official escort courtesy...
City Manager’s Office • Downtown Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony – On Thursday, December 1 at 6 pm join the City Council and the Culver City Downtown Business Association at the Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony. See Santa Claus as he makes a special visit, in honor of Culver City’s Centennial and 100th holiday season at this annual event. Downtown Culver City businesses will provide hot cider, hot cocoa, cookies and other festive treats. Enjoy performances by folk dancing groups and local choirs, as...
The County of Los Angeles is planning a tax to fund drought planning, which will be introduced in an election after November 2016. When we get to Baltimore, Maryland we plan to see the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. Now that we have a new superintendent of schools, I would like to suggest year round classes, easing away from Japanese and pushing Chinese. What’s happening with the Takata air bag recall? Six months ago the Los Angeles Times mentioned eight automakers were recalling more t...
Centaurs Look to Upend Covina in First Semi-final Since 2011 By Greg Goodyear & Larry Weiner After traveling three hours to Coachella Valley to play a strong and large opponent and coming away with a nail-biting 45-27 victory Culver City High comes marching home for a CIF Division 11 semi-final contest against the Covina Colts. The Colts finished tied for first place in the Valle Vista League and are 10-2 this year (4-1 in league play) and ranked fourth in Division 11. Last Friday night they defeated Westminster 42-28 to advance. They are a...
Train for the once-in-a-century Culver City Centennial Screenland 5K with a triathlete and Olympian on Sundays, 4 pm, at the Culver City High track for your Academy Awards Sunday morning journey through two movie studios and a towering rainbow. The hour-long training sessions will begin Nov. 27, 4 pm, during Thanksgiving weekend to provide a great start to work off those turkey trimmings. All ages and abilities are invited to the weekly workshops that will run right up to race day, Feb. 26,...
It wasn't the kind of beginning or ending the Ocean League Co-Champions were dreaming about. Culver City High football lost its first round 2016 playoff opener to the visiting Valley View Eagles from Moreno Valley in a slugfest, 69-43, on Friday night, November 11, at Jerry Chabola Stadium. Ultimately, it was two interceptions just before halftime that permanently turned the tide against the Centaurs. Culver City was leading 28-26 when Valley View marched into the end zone to retake the lead in...
Four months ago two top former high school quarterbacks were starting for UCLA and USC. Josh Rosen of UCLA and Max Browne of USC were two of the best quarterbacks coming out of high school and they were set to lead their perspective schools to the promised land. On Saturday both players will be on the sidelines when the teams take the field at the Rose Bowl at 7:30 p.m. Rosen is recovering from shoulder surgery and Browne lost his starting job after the Trojans started the season 1-2. Now UCLA...
USC men’s basketball has signed Jordan Usher and Victor Uyaelunmo to National Letters of Intent it was announced by head coach Andy Enfiel. “Jordan and Victor are very talent basketball players as well as exceptional students,” said Enfield. “We anticipate both players being great additions to our basketball program while they study at our world renowned Marshall School of Business.” Usher, of Canton, Ga., will attend Wheeler HS in Marietta, Ga. after three outstanding seasons at Sequoyah HS. The 6-7, 200-pound wing averaged 18.3 points, 8...
The victory was sweet. Among the date palm tree farms just south of Palm Springs the Culver City High football team forged a new path into the 2017 CIF playoff semifinals with a resilient 45-27 victory over Coachella Valley High on Friday, November 17. Even the three-hour bus ride back home past midnight made it a road trip worth savoring. The Centaurs’ multi-faceted three-phase attack withstood a potent offense, the long travel, windy conditions and once again the penalty flags that t...
AVPA's Blurred Vision Theatre Company will open its 2016-17 season with Almost, Maine at The Ivy Substation in downtown Culver City November 10 to 13. Written by John Cariani, the romantic comedy is about a town "thats so far north, its almost not in the United States – its almost in Canada. And it almost doesnt exist, because its residents never got around to getting organized. So its just...Almost." On a wintry Friday night, under the glow of the Northern Lights, residents of Almost find t...
• WLAC Liaison Committee - The first meeting of the West Los Angeles College / Culver City Liaison Committee meeting was held at City Hall on November 1. Committee Members (from right to left) include Council Member Thomas Small, Council Member Göran Eriksson, WLAC Vice President of Workforce Education Mark Pracher, City Manager John Nachbar, and WLAC President James Limbaugh. The Committee discussed its goals, which include finding ways to expand partnerships between WLAC and the City in or...
How bad was the UCLA basketball team last season? When the season ended Coach Steve Alford returned the money he had been awarded for an additional year on his contract. Yes, the coach was taking the blame for a 15-17 season which included a 10th place finish in the Pac-12 Conference. Yes, we’re talking about UCLA, the school with all those NCAA championships. Crosstown rival USC beat UCLA twice and finished in sixth place. Oregon was the champion. Well, a new season is starting and it’s lik...
Joshua Arnold, the new Culver City School District Superintendent, will be the featured speaker at the Friends of the Sandy Segal Youth Health Center Annual Meeting. Dr. Arnold will share his vision for the future of our school district during his presentation. The public is welcome to attend the meeting on Thursday, November 17 at 7 p.m. in the Culver City High School Library, 4401 Elenda Street, Culver City. Refreshments will be served. After the program School Board Member and Board Liaison to the Friends group Anne Allaire will conduct the...
In memoriam: Kimberly Irwin, UCLA media relations representative and former newsopaper reporter. She brought attention to the work of physicians and researchers across a broad range of specialties Kimberly "Kim" Dawn Irwin, a media relations representative at UCLA's medical enterprise and a former reporter at the Santa Monica Outlook died Oct. 7 in Los Angeles following a brief illness. She was 55. Over the course of her 18-year career at UCLA, Irwin attracted attention to the work of physicians...
It was a football blitzkrieg at Beverly Hills High as Culver City High overwhelmed the Normans, 63-8, to capture a share of the 2016 Ocean League title on November 4, the final league game of the season. The Centaurs, 7-3 overall, finished tied at 4-1 with El Segundo and Lawndale. All three co-champions advanced to the CIF Southern Section Football Playoffs beginning this Friday, November 11. "I'll take winning the league title every day of the week. We talked in preseason about being league...
