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A California police officer is being hailed as a hero, for quick action which save the life of a baby was choking. Culver City police officer Brian Cappell is being hailed a hero for saving the life of a nine-month-old baby who was choking. Cappell has served as a police officer for nineteen years The entire incident which was caught on Cappell’s body camera. On March 22, Cappell was nearby when the baby's sister, Aria flagged him down telling the officer his sister was choking. The video captures Cappell running to Aria. Upon arriving at t...
Two concerts that you don't want to miss are landing at The Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. On April 26, living legend Jon Anderson, former lead singer, songwriter, and co-founder of Yes will be treating his adoring fans to his distinctive vocal excellence, one of the most recognizable voices in the history of music. Anderson was the author and a major creative influence behind the ground-breaking album 'Fragile' as well as the series of epic, complex pieces such as "Awaken," "Gates of...
Reflecting a fast-evolving world of modern and personalized storytelling beyond the traditional book form, multimedia software provider will be at the University of Southern California (USC) and debut its first interactive pop-up museum at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 13 and April 14, 2019. Themed "#InstaArt: Create Your LA Story," the museum is a free, interactive, customizable photo booth and exhibit. It is aimed at inspiring digital artists, photographers, visual...
The new sales tax took effect in Culver City along with 50 other cities in California effect as of Monday, April 1. Sales tax in Culver City jumped from 10 percent to 10.25 percent. Culver City hiked up 0.25 percent. Culver City's sales tax is now three percent over the state of California's minimum sales tax, which is 7.25 percent, according to the San Francisco Gate. In 2013 as the nation was trying to recover from the recession votes pasted a ½% increase in the sales tax for Culver City. Residents and businesses were assured that the tax, wh...
The cable network giant will move its corporate headquarters in Santa Monica to the Ivy Station mixed-use development in Culver City when Ivy Station finishes construction in 2020. HBO will occupy the entire 240K SF office component of the $350M transit-oriented megadevelopment that will also have a boutique hotel, apartments and retail, Ivy Station developers Lowe, AECOM-Canyon Partners and Rockwood Capital announced Wednesday. "HBO is an ideal business anchor for Ivy Station, bringing to the...
Saturday night saw a glamorous start to Culver City Public Theatre's brand new season of three shows, with a red carpet premiere of "The Wonderful World of Dissocia" by British playwright Anthony Neilson & presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. The show, created by award winning director Nicola Henry, who is also the company President, played to a sold out audience at the FanaticSalon Theatre in Culver City. The play, originally borne from an improvisation workshop by...
3rd Place: This Week We feature the 3rd Place Winner The Culver City Observer believes that a fundamental part of life is learning how to write. Last week we featured the first-place winner. This week we feature the 2nd place winner Andrew Oda. We will be featuring the writing of other winners in the upcoming weeks. The ASB sponsored this year's contest. The first-place winner received a $50 Amazon gift card and the 2nd and 3rd place winners received $25 Amazon gift cards. Students were...
April is Earthquake Preparedness Month. Culver City is offering Emergency Water Storage Systems for purchase at a discounted cost. In honor of "April is Earthquake Preparedness Month," Culver City’s WATER FIRST program will once again be offered to residents. This program is coordinated by the Culver City Fire Department and allows residents to purchase an emergency water storage system at a discounted cost. The “Water First” program is available for Culver City residents to purchase 55 gallon water containers for their personal disaster suppl...
To kick off International Compost Awareness Week (May 5-11), Athens American Organics and the Culver City Public Works Environmental Programs and Operations Division (EPO) are teaming up to provide free compost! The event will be held on Saturday May 4 from 8 a.m. until noon in the parking lot across from the Boneyard Dog Park at Culver City Park, located at 9800 Jefferson Blvd., Culver City. Compost is used to improve or maintain high-quality soil, grow healthy plants, reduce fertilizer and pesticide use, improve water quality and protect the...
Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles continues its commitment to educating teens and their parents about pregnancy prevention, peer pressure, birth control options, making healthy and responsible choices, and sexually-transmitted diseases with its Teen Seminar on April 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. It’s a four-hour seminar that has been hosted for local teens between the ages of 13 and 17 by Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles, twice a year since 2002. The seminar typically has about 80 attendees, and is open to the public. “Whether or not our tee...
A unique program announced this week, every Culver City High School students in the Class of 2020 will have the opportunity to apply to at least one four-year college or trade school at no cost to them. This program, funded by through the Culver City Education Foundation, will give every eligible CCHS 2020 senior up to $100 to pay for a college or trade school application. To make sure every member of the Class of 2020 benefits from this opportunity, those enrolling in our local community colleges, West L.A. College or Santa Monica College, who...
Climate change continues to draw attention globally, from governmental debates on pollution solutions to people protesting against a lack of action. In Europe, teenage girls and young women are leading a large student environmental movement, and organizers in the U.S. are planning to join an international day of action on March 15. Against this backdrop, those engaged in environmental issues say that while there is strength in numbers during protest events, the difference often starts with individuals doing the right things daily for clean air...
A ferociously dark and hilarious new comedy by award-winning playwright John Bunzel (63 Trillion, Death of a Buick). When a famous writer dies under mysterious circumstances, family and friends gather in his cabin on a remote island in the Puget Sound to box up his belongings. As they go through the clutter dad left behind, hidden family secrets come to light — and they come to realize just how much they both despise and love one another. The play will be performed on April 26 thru June 2: Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m., and 3 Sundays at 3 p...
Ocean League Baseball 2019 is not a picnic. For the first time all season Culver City High baseball took a pretty good one on the chin. Visiting El Segundo High thrashed the Centaurs, 9-0, on Tuesday afternoon, April 9, the first of two games this week between the two perennially successful programs in the Westside and South Bay. Culver City also lost consecutive games for the first time this season while their record dropped to 3-2 in league. They still carry a respectable 14-4 overall record...
When people talk about UCLA sports the first thing that comes to mind is their men's basketball team and the second thing in the conversation is football. Both of those programs are struggling but several of UCLA's smaller sports have climbed to the top of the college sports mountain. The women's softball team is 35-1 and ranked No. 1 in the nation. The men's baseball team is No. 1 with a record of 23-6. The women's beach volleyball team is 26-1 and ranked No. 1 and the women's gymnastics team...
LAFC reaffirmed its flying start in the 2019 MLS season with a very credible 4-0 shutout over D.C. United last Saturday afternoon at Audi Field. Even with an unsatisfying second half, first place Black and Gold registered its second consecutive shutout on the road as well as another hat-trick, this time by forward Diego Rossi. "It's great to win 4-0 away from home," said head coach Bob Bradley. "We scored some really good goals. Today is a choppy game. So it's not exactly a game where there's...
By Jon Coupal Every day it seems like the California Legislature careens further off the rails, and we’re not just talking about the state’s infamous high-speed rail project. The rapidity of tax increase proposals that would punish both citizen and business taxpayers is breathtaking. Particularly astounding is the fact that new revenue simply isn’t needed given our highest-in-the-nation income tax rate, state sales tax rate and a litany of other tax metrics that cause residents of other states to fall to their knees in gratitude that they...
