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The Culver City Democratic Club have unanimously approved a resolution condemning the proposed purchase of the Bearcat armored personnel carrier by the Culver City Police Department. The City Council has already approved the purchase when it adopted the 2019-20 city budget last August. But the council later put the brakes on the purchase citing the need for more community input. In its resolution, the Democratic Club accused the city "of misrepresented this military transport as an 'emergency...
Monday night city council proposed allowing minors and non-registered voters on city commissions and boards. We at Protect Culver City are vocally opposed to the idea. We see it not as an extension of the franchise, but a disenfranchising of Culver City residents and voters by means of court-packing. Indeed, it’s court packing of the worst kind – by using impressionable children as political pawns. Culver City Unified was already embroiled in scandal under Kelly Kent, when she used school dis...
Chargers and Rivers Agree to the End of an Era The Los Angeles Chargers and quarterback Philip Rivers have announced that they have mutually agreed to part ways, ending their 16-year relationship. Rivers will be entering free agency at the age of 38. Replacing his production will not be easy. Rivers leaves the Chargers owning more than thirty team records. He holds records in passing yards with 59,271, in touchdowns with 397, in completions with 4,907 and wins with 123. He had 235 consecutive...
The second half of the Pac-12 season can make or break the UCLA and USC men's and women's basketball seasons. The UCLA women are in the best position to stumble and still make it to the NCAA Tournament but they still want continue to play at a high level to get a high seed in NCAA's. The UCLA and USC women and the UCLA and USC men started the second half of the Pac-12 season last week and excluding the UCLA women the other teams have to win games if they expect to make it to the NCAA...
The NBA trade deadline has come and gone, and the clear winner is the Los Angeles Clippers. The Clippers acquired forward Marcus Morris from the New York Knicks as part of a three-team trade. The Clippers sent forward Moe Harkless and a 2020 first-round pick to the Knicks for Morris. They also traded guard Jerome Robinson, a first-round pick in 2018, to the Wizards in exchange for guard Isaiah Thomas. The Knicks also received 2nd round picks from the Clippers and Wizards. The acquisition of...
In recognition of the L.A. Clippers’ extraordinary impact both on and off the court, the Los Angeles Sports Council today named Lawrence Frank and Gillian Zucker as co-recipients of the 2019 Sports Executive of the Year award. Since a change in ownership five years ago, the Clippers have become one of the nation’s most admired sports franchises. They are a force on the hardwood — especially with the blockbuster signings of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George in the summer of 2019 — and have made an incredible difference in the L.A. communi...
Both the boys' and girls' varsity soccer teams did what was necessary to earn a spot in the CIF playoffs which starts this week. The boys recovered from a challenging final week of January (2 ties and 1 loss) only to start February with two commanding performances and corresponding wins. First, they played Hawthorne on the road on February 3, and returned with a dominating 6-0 victory. The Centaurs scored in a multitude of ways and with a variety of players to get their season back on track....
High Five! It's been a very successful winter for Culver City High athletics this season. All five of the schools athletic programs for the 2019-20 Winter season have qualified for the CIF Playoffs. Girls water polo, girls soccer, boys soccer, girls basketball and boys basketball will begin post-season tournament action this week. Girls water polo, led by head coach Nestor Dordoni, Jr., travel to Oxnard this Tuesday to take on Rio Mesa High at 5:00 p.m. in Round 1 of the Division 5 Playoffs. The...
The last leg of the PGA Tour's West Coast Swing will redefine itself this week at The Riviera Country Club as the previously named Genesis Open has received an upgrade. The 94th edition of the Los Angeles Open is officially known as the Genesis Invitational. This has not been lost on the tournament host, Tiger Woods. The first edition of the Genesis Invitational begins this Thursday, February 13, and concludes on Sunday, February 16. Notably, the tournament is now par-elite with two other...
One of the most historic and longest-running events on the PGA TOUR, The Genesis Invitational celebrates its 94th playing, and first as an invitational, February 10-16, 2020 at historic Riviera Country Club. With TGR Live serving as the event management company for The Genesis Invitational, the primary benefiting charity is TGR Foundation, with proceeds from the event supporting the foundation's education programs in Southern California. The tournament's title sponsor is Genesis, a global...
Culver Blvd. between Sepulveda Blvd. and Elenda Street, will be reconstructed along with the parkway median and expected to take eighteen months. The controversial project which was designed in the 1990’s created a walking park between Culver and what has become known as little Culver Blvd. One hundred forty trees will be removed. The park was created when the city removed the abandoned railroad tracks that carried the red car line. The removal also created the widening of the sidewalks in downtown Culver City which allowed sidewalk dining. T...
If Culver City is rallying a city for everyone, as promoted by the October 11th event at La Ballona school. Why didn’t Culver City use city owned land at Washington and Centinela for affordable housing? Instead the city sold this property to a developer who is creating Culver Hills Alliance, Fox Hills has over 3,000 units of racial and age diversity than any area of Culver City. Fox Hills cannot support more housing or population; they feel like they are suffocating. Recently a source informed m...
Dear Editor, We are currently circulating a ballot initiative among Culver City voters, requiring voter approval for rent control. We only have a couple months left to secure the 2800 signatures needed to get it on the November ballot. In an effort to meet our goal, we are bringing on a professional signature gathering company to help us get signatures, starting tomorrow. Collecting signatures is a time intensive process. Given our infant state as a PAC, we just don’t have the infrastructure t...
Observer Editor Mitch Chortkoff covered the Lakers for over 6 decades. He was called "Dean of the Laker Writers" by many of his colleagues. Mitch passed away in July of 2018, but he had written a lot about Kobe Bryant. He we are rerunning his column from the December 3, 2017 edition of the Culver City Observer as Kobe was about to retire. "Remember kid. There's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die." Art Lefleur as Babe Ruth in the movie "The Sandlot" It was...
Celebrate with The Friends of the Sandy Segal Youth Health Center on its 30th anniversary at their annual fundraiser on Saturday, February 29. The theme of the gala is Cheers to 30 Years and will be held at the Del Rey Yacht Club in Marina Del Rey. The event begins 5:30 p.m. with appetizers, raffle, no host bar, and music by Ronnie Jayne. Dinner follows with a program, and a live auction led by MC Mike Cohen. The cost is $125 per person prior to February 19, or $135 at the door. All proceeds go to the Sandy Segal Youth Health Center located on...
Jeff Bezos is in for an interstellar surprise when he attends the Oscars pre-show in Hollywood this Sunday, Feb. 9. As Bezos and his entourage arrive at the Dolby Theater, an airplane flying overhead will greet them with a banner that says, “Jeff Bezos, meet space Realtor Dushime Gashugi.” Gashugi’s pitch to Bezos is simple: if the Amazon founder is serious about taking earthlings to the moon, Gashugi wants to sell their homes, both on Earth and in space. “Bezos is one of the most socially conscious people on the planet,” Gashugi says. “No...
VALENTINE'S DAY MENU FEB. 14-16 1st Course choice of: • Butternut Squash Soup topped with crème fraiche and thyme • Roasted Beets with Burrata (fresh mozzarella stuffed with Stracciatella & cream), mixed greens, marinated tomatoes, goat cheese and balsamic glaze 2nd Course choice of: • Spinach Ravioli with shrimp, scallops, mushrooms, spinach, cherry tomatoes and a gorgonzola cream sauce • Blackened Salmon with mascarpone pearl pasta, mixed vegetables and a balsamic cream sauce • Oven-Roast...
BY CANTALINI'S SALERNO BEACH STAFF If you're looking for romance this Valentine's Day, Cantalini's Salerno Beach Restaurant in Playa del Rey is the place to be. A local favorite, Cantalini's Salerno Beach is Celebrating 20 years as the perfect date night. Executive Chef and Owner, Lisa Schwab takes great pride in offering great home-style traditional Italian cuisine served by a wonderful friendly staff in a candlelit romantic ambiance. A variety of tantalizing chef's specials are offered...
Los Angeles, CA – Culver City native Ellowyn Stanton now lives the life of the character she portrayed in the highly rated, original children's live-action scripted series Big Top Academy (BTA), produced by Cirque du Soleil Images, Discovery Kids, and Apartment 11 Productions. On January 11, 2020, HULU announced it would stream all 52 episodes in the United States. BTA has already aired in Canada, Latin America, Portugal, Africa, and will debut in the UK on POP on February 3, 2020. Ellowyn w...
Cirque du Soleil's Big Top returned to Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium on opening night, January 21, with its first sports-inspired Big Top production, VOLTA. Los Angeles is the first city ever visited by Cirque in the USA in 1987 and VOLTA is the 15th Big Top to visit here as well. VOLTA is energetic, urban, contemporary, and is a captivating voyage of discovery that showcases never-before-seen acrobatics in a visually striking world with beautiful, enchanting and magical live vocals with live ba...
Mona Day www.DineSeeTravel.com Cirque du Soleil returns to Los Angeles with its show Volta January 18 - March 8 at Dodger Stadium. Volta explores the theme of celebrating differences and uniqueness in a world where technology often isolates people from one another, and shows that self-acceptance can bring liberation from the judgement of others, allowing one to fulfill one's own potential. That lesson is told through the story of Waz, a gameshow contestant who was once full of dreams, but has...
