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Culver City residents and neighbors are invited to gather in person to celebrate and honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on Saturday, January 15 at 2:00 PM. This year’s program theme is Erasing Racism. The event will be held at the Culver City Senior Center on the outdoor patio, located at 4095 Overland Avenue, Culver City 90232. Plentiful free and accessible parking available on-site. In order to protect public health and safety, proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required to e...
Culver City police has arrested a man who allegedly took out a handgun and fired one shot during an argument in the parking lot of Westfield Culver City last Saturday. No one was injured in the shooting which occurred around 1:20 p.m. on Saturday January 8, according to the Culver City Police Department. “The suspect and victim were engaged in an argument when the suspect pulled out a handgun and shot one round in the air,” said local police in a statement. Arriving at the scene, the off...
Kala Koa Entertainment is once again presenting its 15th Annual Southern California Slack Key Festival and Island Marketplace, the biggest Hawaiian music event of the year, at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center on January 16 at 2pm. One of the most acclaimed Hawaiian concerts to ever leave the islands, the 2022 festival takes fans on a Hawaiian musical journey showcasing GRAMMY-winning slack key guitarists, the best hula dancers in the world, special guest performers and a free to the...
The Memorial Service for former Culver City football star and long-time football coach was postponed due to the raise in COVID cases, Culver City High School announced this week. The Services were scheduled for November 29. Services will take place in March or April of 2022....
Fly silly seabird No dreams can possess you No voices can blame you For sun on your wings My gentle relations Have names they must call me For loving the freedom Of all flying things My dreams with the seagulls fly Out of reach Out of cry -Joni Mitchell...
As the Omicron variant continues its explosive spread across the county, Public Health officials this week reported that the positivity rate among students and staff has climbed to more than 14%. For the week of January 3 - 9, a total of 80,424 positive cases were identified in schools across the county, including 68,560 cases among Los Angeles Unified School District personnel and students, resulting in a test positivity rate of 14.6%, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public...
A man was allegedly stabbed to death by his son on Tuesday night after an argument escalated into violence in Playa del Rey, according to authorities. Los Angeles Police Department officers were called at 6 p.m. on January 11 to a home in the 200 block of Redlands Street after a report that two people had been stabbed, including a 70-year-old man, said LAPD in a statement The father, who was stabbed multiple times, died at the scene, LAPD said. An unidentified woman was taken to a hospital in an unknown condition with stab wounds, police...
From Las Vegas: Former Baltimore Ravens head coach Ted Marchibroda used to say that "more games are lost than won in the NFL." The truth is that many head coaches have said that, including the best head coach in the NFL, Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots. For the Los Angeles Chargers, that saying pretty much epitomizes their 2021 season. The Los Angeles Chargers needed a win in the season finale, and they were in the NFL Playoffs. The only thing standing in their way was the Las Vegas...
Charles Dickens would probably summarize the Ram's game last Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers like this. It was a dominant half, it was an ineffective half, it was the time of great play calling, it was the time for costly mistakes. It was the epoch of belief, and it was the epoch of doubt. It was the game to clinch the NFC West. It was the game to exorcise the demons of the San Francisco 49ers. It was the dawn of hope and it ended in the dusk of despair. The Rams had everything before...
LOS ANGELES – Olympian and 2021 NCAA 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles champion Anna Cockrell has been named an NCAA To- day’s Top 10 Award winner, one of 10 recognized outstanding senior student-athletes from the previous academic year over all divisions, it was announced by the NCAA today (Jan. 10). . Cockrell, a 12-time All-American, represented USA at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and reached the finals of the women’s 400m hurdles. She finished third in the event at the U.S. Olympic Trials by breaking h...
By Amber Jackson, Lucky Lifer Hello 2022!! Goodbye to the single worst Christmas I've ever seen in or out of prison! It all kicked off Christmas Eve with the death of a prisoner, to start things off. The woman died of an apparent heart issue. She recently had open heart surgery. She had been sick. She woke up, and collapsed. Medical staff take forever to respond in here. So in the case of a cardiac arrest, you don't want them to be your first responders!! Anyway, the dead woman had a heavy drug history. I knew who she was. She lived in the...
By Alyssa Erdley, Observer Staff Writer 1/5/22 - On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Department of Public Health announced 21,790 new Covid cases and 24 new deaths. At least 1,792 people are currently hospitalized with the stated cause being Covid-19. The daily case numbers have been hovering around 20,000 since spiking up around December 29. Relatively speaking, hospitalizations and deaths are much lower now, however, than a month ago. With a 7-day total of 146,591 new Covid cases, only 1,792 individuals are hospitalized. This is 1.2% of the number...
By Alyssa Erdley, Observer Staff Writer January 4, 2022 - Last night Santa Monica Audit Subcommittee Commissioner and Santa Monica native Marc Verville exploded the myth of a housing supply crisis in the state or the city. The crisis, Verville explained, is in the surge in real estate value. With a series of deeply researched graphs, Verville explained to the nearly 60 participants in the virtual meeting how the supply of housing in California has easily kept up with population growth. In Santa...
A concert at Santa Monica High School intended to thank Dr Barbara Ferrer for her work on Covid, has been cancelled due to the rise in Covid cases. Ferrer famously has lead Los Angeles County through the widely unpopular lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates. She's not a real doctor; her PHD is in Equity of Communities. She is reviled on the right and adored on the left. Press release cancelling the concert reads: On the eve of Jacaranda's announcement of its plan to honor LA County's Director of Public Health Dr. Barbara Ferrer for her strong...
1/6/22 - Last week, Dr. Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Director of Public Health, announced a program where residents could order free PCR tests to administer at home and send to the lab for results. Today, during her weekly press conference, she announced that program is paused. "They were running into challenges with the vendor," Ferrer explained. They were having trouble getting deliveries to homes in time. Members of the press at the virtual conference said they knew of people who'd been waiting weeks for a test that had been promised within 3-5...
Cal State Long Beach will join a growing group of CSUs starting the spring semester online because the coronavirus once again surges through the state and nation. As the omicron-driven spike in cases continues spreading, nine of the 23 CSU campuses, as of Thursday, have opted to start the semester online: Sacramento, Los Angeles, Channel Islands, San Diego, Fresno, San Marcos, East Bay, San Francisco and now Long Beach, CSU spokeswoman Toni Molle said. Most will go virtual for two weeks.CSULA will go online for three weeks and CSULB will be...
So on Thursday, teachers in SFUSD’s union are holding a sickout to demand safer Covid working conditions. About 600 San Francisco teachers actually called out sick yesterday due to symptoms or exposure to the virus. The district kept schools open. The teachers want the district to provide daily disposable KN95 or N95 masks for all staff who are part of the unions. They also want access to free weekly testing for all staff and all students should be arranged, with free rapid testing available at all SFUSD sites and central offices — including th...
California’s drought is showing signs of improvement, after last week’s rains dropped 7 inches on the region. The US Drought Monitor says, as of Tuesday, roughly 17-percent of the state is in the Extreme or Exceptional Drought categories. This covers the northern San Joaquin Valley and most of the Sacramento Valley up to the Oregon border. More than half of California is in the third-highest Severe Drought category. More than 30-percent is in Moderate Drought. Officials say back in early October, 90-percent of the state was in either Ext...
So far in 2022, 5000 flight cancellations have been reported from LAX. The highly transmissible Omicron variant has once again intensified personal risk calculations around once routine activities, such as air travel. One silver lining for those who are flying in the first few months of 2022 is that Airfares are down. The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is up to three times more infectious than the Delta variant, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. The risk of travel is probably not higher with Omicron however....
by Alyssa Erdley Observer Staff January 7, 2022 - During her weekly press conference yesterday, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Director of Public Health, appeared optimistic about the apparently lower hospitalization and death rate during the latest surge of Covid-19. In just one week, Omicron went from 54% of sequenced samples to 85%. The number of Delta variant cases in the population is lower than at any time since that variant crowded out the previous version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, sometime during last summer. "Unlike the last winter surge, when...
Montequilla's humans had brought the chair to the thrift store to benefit others in need. What they didn't realize is that their beloved cat had taken refuge inside the chair, most likely to avoid all the commotion in the house. When they realized that their cat was missing, the family contacted the thrift store. The store directed them to the shelter and pretty soon feline and humans were happily reunited. Montequlla's family donated a recliner to the thrift store when they were moving. They...
AUTHOR: OLGA ZURAWSKA The City Council is expected to attempt again on January 11, 2022 the appointments to two seats on the Housing Commission: a 2-year designated seat for a Section 8 program participant with lived experience of homelessness (currently held by Chair Buchanan who has been on the Commission for a decade), and a regular 4-year seat. The second attempt is necessary because on December 7, 2021 the Council made two errors during the appointment process. Those errors, or as some believe, strategic moves by Mayor Himmelrich and...
