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t's gorgeous. Yet midst this exquisite beauty, current Indian movies dip into a dark side. The LA Indian Film Festival is intimate, in its 15th year. What a chance to learn. Perfumed with delicious insight, IFFLA feels relaxed. An assault on women's rights, does that still happen? You bet. And not just women. Muslims are still targeted, despite India's having the third-largest Muslim population in the world. "Lipstick Under My Burkha," the opening night film, is marvelous. I couldn't stop...
The last time any of us were at Culver City city hall we noticed the number of empty desks. Perhaps a better usage of space would be to consolidate city functions on two floors and the school district on the third level. This thought would free up the current Culver City School District headquarters to be sold, leased or rented. Effective January 1 Southern California Edison has increased its fees. Can it be true the only thing that goes up faster than the SCE charges is a rocket to outer...
The new Meryl Streep? At 10 years old? That's right. Her name's Mckenna Grace She's delicious: beautiful, intelligent, funny, and already with a conscience. She's been an actress, or an actor, as she puts it, since 2012. She was seven when she starred in the movie "Gifted," opening this weekend. Mckenna dazzles as Mary. Raised by her Uncle Frank, Mary's a happy child; delightful, funny, irreverent. She's bored in school; any genius would be. Her mother was also a math prodigy; she handed Mary...
Under the Republicans the Congressional Budget Office figures a 64-year-old making $26,500 per year would see health care premiums increase, bythe year 2026, by 750 percent. Under current law they pay $1,700 but, perCBO projections, under the new bill this group would have to pay almost $14,600, which is more than half their yearly income. The Beverly Hills Police Department will begin the expansion of their closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance and automated license plate recognition...
Feeling the fear? Scratch the surface of most Americans today. We're afraid. You're spooked whether you know it, or whether you'll admit it (which is something entirely different), whether you've pushed it so far down it's there, trying to hide, or whether you're consciously aware to the tips of your nerve endings. Right around the Presidential election most people said they were scared and overwhelmed; many saying they truly feared the future. More than half of Americans aged 40 and younger...
Republicans want to take away health care from millions of people. The proposed cuts to Medicaid will wreck our state budget and hurt people in our community who already are struggling to make ends meet. Their plan weakens Medicare. It takes three years off the life of the Medicare hospital fund in order to give a huge tax break just to people earning more than $200,000 a year. Their plan does nothing to deal with skyrocketing prices for medical care and prescription drugs. Thank you, Susan...
Having read in your news that councilwoman Salhi-Wells is sponsoring fund raisers for Habitat for Humanity to build 10 affordable units on Globe, adjacent to the 405 freeway, I am compelled to object. As a Realtor, I have sold many homes with various statutory admonitions for the buyers to take note so that they will make an informed decision. Buying a home within 1000 feet of a freeway is a mandatory disclosure in California, set in place to educate buyers in that zone of potential danger. The danger is obvious: respiratory disease and...
Does it matter that it was for kids and families? Not at all. You could have come; there was no family magnetometer. T'was like a hot summer day in a British beach resort, You see a group of kids sitting right on the sand, quietly, waiting expectantly, noiselessly. What's going to happen? Parents standing in the back, kids down in front, sitting in rows. How cute is that? That's a traditional Punch and Judy show, with old-fashioned puppets and red-and-white striped stage, beach and waves in the background. Full British summer. That's how it was...
As reported by Reuters on February 7, Bank of America opens branches without employees. That’s right, the bank opened three completely automated branches during the month of January where customers can use ATMs and have video conferences with employees at other branches. What a money saver!!! How many loans to employees will be granted if no one has a job? A laid off Bank of America employee is a poor credit risk. An example here in California of drivers getting gouged could be a $100 traffic t...
"Your breasts look incredible in that outfit." Inadvisable pickup line, for sure, Dude. That no man should ever say that to a woman he wants to impress is a given. Yet for Paul Linke, somehow that dealbreaker line didn't implode his chances. The result of his 25-year love affair with the woman he had just met is "It's Time," now showing at the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice. "It's Time" is as much a paean to love, in its way, as is Shah Jahan's Taj Mahal, built in 1643 as his profound love...
Would you believe? Would anyone believe? Awhile back a Georgia lawmaker, Gerald Greene (R-Cuthbert), was shot in the leg behind an adult entertainment store. Furthermore, Greene had several thousand dollars in donations for storm relief efforts in his pocket that the shooter didn’t get. Greene’s story claims he parked his vehicle and planned to walk to a nearby liquor store to buy lottery tickets. After being wounded Greene walked to the liquor store where the police found him. Greene des...
How do we stand in regards to our school district's five-year goal of bringing district employees’ salaries up to “within” the median salary for L.A. County? Our district has been playing the salary game of keeping up with the Joneses for the last four-plus years. They have been trying to catch up with other, better state-funded districts in L.A. County by “reinvesting” our one-time district savings in across-the-board employee raises. Playing Coy Back in 2012 when this program of district raises was announced I asked the logical question,...
Smart And Spicy I Could Host The OscarsBy Carole Bell It wouldn't be dumb, for one thing. Can you imagine? Picture an intelligent evening. Have you seen the BAFTAs? Impossible to duplicate Stephen Fry's charm, yet that could offer a compass of aspiration. With gracious wit polished cumulatively for over a decade, Fry sets the true black tie standard as he does the British Film And Television Academy proud. Funny enough, Jimmy Kimmel's chance in the barrel was just that – funny enough. R...
Quick, when is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday? When is George Washington's birthday? Every schoolchild in America used to know these dates. Now we celebrate "President's Day". I wonder if anyone knows which Presidents the day is celebrating. (I suspect our current President thinks it's about him). (And it may be...keep reading). Is it President's *Day* or President's *Weekend*? Or does that depend on what stores say in ads? The spelling itself is an issue. But we'll get to that. When I started t...
Dear Editor, My name is Cathy Zermeno, my husband George and I have lived on the Crest since 1954, we raised two children and they attended Culver Schools. It has been a perfect community to live in. I am writing because I am surprised that the Planning Dept allowed the plans for 10753 Crank Road to pass. This house has 5,000 feet and they are planning on building a two-story unit beneath it on the Terraced Hillside, a proposed rental that will include an elevator and a 2,200 feet of floor space. This Hill has had a lot of problems.1978 1993...
Am I gullible? Am I naïve? But why, I ask, do people believe they can mess up the system and not get caught? VW, Takata air-bags and Wells Fargo Bank are just a few examples of the leaders who went over the edge. Many believe the Department of Justice should not only fine the companies but put their leaders in cell block C. Do you remember Sears and Roebuck on Manchester and Hillcrest in Inglewood? It was so popular they had a lady on the roof with a mic directing drivers to parking stalls. We...
Quick, when is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday? When is George Washington's birthday? Every schoolchild in America used to know these dates. Now we celebrate "President's Day". I wonder if anyone knows which Presidents the day is celebrating. (I suspect our current President thinks it's about him). (And it may be...keep reading). Is it President's *Day* or President's *Weekend*? Or does that depend on what stores say in ads? The spelling itself is an issue. But we'll get to that. When I started t...
The United States Mint will release a commemorative gold coin in April that will feature Lady Liberty as a black woman. marking the first time the U.S. symbol has been depicted as anything other than white on the nation’s currency. The coin, with a $100 face value, will commemorate the 225th anniversary of the Mint’s coin production, the Mint and the Treasury Department announced in mid-January. Going on sale on April 6, 2017, it will be 24-karat and weigh about an ounce. If you haven’t signe...
I stepped onto the bus, mesmerized. A forest of fine ribbons hung in front of me, each tipped by a tiny origami crane, uniquely patterned, of singular colors. I wished I could have one. It was Valentine's Day. I had gone to the post office the day before, mailing Valentine's cards to people I cared about. "Did you get any Valentine's?" the bus driver asked. "No, but that didn't stop me from sending out lots of them," I answered. "Then one of these is for you," he said, giving me a big smile. "Re...
Smart And Spicy "I try to have fun," he told me, when I asked about the cowboy hat and the train whistles. I'd watched Guido Lamell, Music Director/ Conductor of the Santa Monica Symphony, wearing a Stetson while conducting Rodeo. I'd laughed as he blew a train whistle for comic effect during a concert. I'd been amused while he advised his audience, referring to a specific musical piece on the program, "If you have to leave to relieve yourself, do it during this piece; you won't miss much." If y...
By Neil Rubenstein Observer Columnist On the page labeled “whatever happened to” I see the name Kim Davis. Yes, I know you remember Kim, a Kentucky county clerk and a longtime Democrat who switched to be a Republican because she felt abandoned by the Democrats in her fight against same-sex marriage. She was honored at the Values Voter Summit by the Family Research Council. The Los Angeles County Supervisors recently passed an ordinance in the unincorporated areas to spay or neuter and mic...
The power grabbers at Culver City city hall are laughing so hard their stomachs are hurting. I guess for years they thought we were so naive that we just got off the turnip truck. Well, our day is coming!!! Perhaps you remember the Council ran all over town to get us to vote for the increase in the sales tax, we are so trusting. I and others tried to tell everyone the increase would go to the big shots’ wages and pensions. The chart shown below was a public document request that shows money s...
Women who have had false-positive results on mammograms may face a greater risk of future breast cancer according to a new study. The findings were published recently in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, which is a journal of the American Association of Cancer Research. The study analyzed 2.2 million mammograms from 1.3 million U.S. women who ranged in age from 40 to 74. The study found women with a false positive result had a 39 percent greater chance of developing breast cancer...
Enough about politics – I'm thinking about war. My Christmas wish for you is at the end of this column. In this season of goodwill on earth, peace to men and women, do you feel peace? Can you be at peace, when so many people live in war? Can you be at peace, when so many have no Christmas or New Year's holiday, whether or not it's their religion/culture? While we're having a good time, people in Aleppo are literally dying; 40 people got killed by a suicide bomb in Aden. Think: Syria. Yemen. The...
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...
