Articles from the August 24, 2017 edition


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  • Final Centennial Dance Performance By The Award-Winning Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre

    Aug 24, 2017

    The final performance in the 1988 series will be on Saturday, September 9 at Culver City City Hall Courtyard, with evening showings at 5 and 7 pm. This dance performance by Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre will highlight Hanging Garden, Quotation Courtyard &Panoramic and La Ballona public artworks located at Culver City City Hall. The performance is free for Culver City residents and $25 for non-residents. This culminating performance is deeply rooted in the history of Culver City, and coincides with the actual month of the City’s Centennial. T...

  • Dodgers Have Granderson: Really? REALLY?

    Mitch Chortkoff|Aug 24, 2017

    I considered several topics for my column this week. Topics from different sports. Less than an hour into my thinking I had my answer. It wasn’t a difficult decision. In fact, it was ridiculously easy.The Dodgers getting Curtis Granderson for a very low price boggled my mind. Granderson, now 36, has hit 314 home runs in his 14 major league seasons and driven in 862 runs. He’s made more than $100 million in his 14 major league seasons and been an All-Star three times. Known as The Grandy Man...

  • Culver Elks to Host Aug. 31 Blood Drive

    Aug 24, 2017

    The Culver City Elks will host an American Red Cross Blood Drive on Aug. 31 from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Elks’ parking lot, 11160 Washington Place. The Red Cross Bloodmobile will welcome walk-in donors. Those who would rather make an appointment can visit www.Redcrossblood.org on the internet and enter sponsor code BPOE1917. The office of Culver City’s Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks can be reached at (310) 839-8891....

  • $2.5 Billion Needed To Protect An Oil Company Blowout?

    Neil Rubenstein|Aug 24, 2017

    Sometime in Mid-September Culver City is planning to put out an Oil and Gas Drilling Regulations Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Public to review and comment on, Citizen Activists have been proposing the City require a surety book of one billion dollars to deal with damages if the oil company has a blowout similar to Porter Ranch or if it causes an explosion like the San Bruno, California fire that destroyed 38 homes. At the current price of Culver City real estate if the City...

  • FIesta La Ballona Returns Plenty of Fun Friday - Sunday

    Aug 24, 2017

    Fiesta La Ballona, Culver City’s annual Party in the Park, will be held this weekend (August 25-27) at Veterans Park located at 4117 Overland Avenue in Culver City. Fiesta is a free, signature event of the Culver City Centennial Celebration. The weekend’s festivities will feature live performances, carnival rides and games, vendor booths showcasing local groups and artisan wares, pony rides and petting zoo, a beer and wine garden, food trucks, a food court, an aquacade, an interactive sustainability booth, and other special activities. The Ope...

  • Culver City High Has Lofty Goals For The Football Season

    Aug 24, 2017

    The Offense Our football team has really put time and effort in the weight room and on the football field, and weve got huge goals for the 17 Season!! stated football head coach Jahmal Wright. Culver City goes into the football season as the top-ranked team in Division 11 in the Southern Section polls. That is a lofty ranking but probably well deserved. Two years ago the C.I.F. realigned the Divisions, and Culver City was amazingly put down to a lower Division. The reason why the Centaurs were...

  • Chargers Lose Again But Eye Rams Next

    Bill Seals|Aug 24, 2017

    The Chargers came out on Sunday night for the second round of their "Fight for LA" and once again, they got knocked down, losing 13-7 to New Orleans before 21,000 fans at the Stub Hub Center in Carson. So what have we learned about the Chargers through the first two preseason games? Not much that we did not already know. The Chargers are using preseason to develop their depth. They are attempting to develop some of their young players. It is not going well to this point, but that should not...

  • Showdown Sunday: Sparks Vs. Lynx

    Steve Finley|Aug 24, 2017

    The final three games of the regular season for the Sparks include a Sunday date with the other power team in the WNBA, the Minnesota Lynx. The Lynx and the Sparks are the two best teams in the league so their game on Sunday; although it's still a regular season game has playoff implications. Tip off for the game is set for 4 p.m. at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. The Sparks (22-8) still have an outside chance of overtaking the 23-6 Lynx with three games remaining in the regular...

  • Rams Beat Raiders in Preseason Game #2

    Fred Altieri|Aug 24, 2017

    The NFL game pre-dress rehearsal offered only a glimpse but a revealing one, both visually and statistically. Progress continued as the Los Angeles Rams ran their 2017 preseason record to 2-0 with a 24-21 win over the Oakland Raiders on Saturday, August 19 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. It's no coincidence that the Rams have a new spring in their step along with a rejuvenated attitude following last season's self-destructive tailspin. The obvious difference is the players buying in to...

  • Headliners To Perform At Fiesta La Ballona

    Aug 24, 2017

    Celebrating Culver City’s 100th anniversary Culver City’s Party in the Party continues this year with food, fun and rides for the entire family. This year the Fiesta entertainment program celebrates a century of music with diverse performances. The Entertainment Tent will open on Friday, August 25 at 4:30 pm with Corey and his Cohorts performing early Jazz and Swing classics. Local bands make up the popular Fiesta-Palooza on Friday night, Coordinated by Flynn Namala and Ryan Silver of The Blank Minds, local teen bands Eliza, The Narts, Lea...

  • DIDI HIRSCH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PRESENTS 19th ANNUAL ALIVE & RUNNING A 5K WALK/RUN FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION

    Aug 24, 2017

    Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services presents the 19th Annual Alive & Running 5K Walk/Run for Suicide Prevention. The event will take place on Sunday, September 24 beginning at 7 a.m. at West 88th Street & La Tijera Boulevard just north of LAX. (Schedule of Events is listed below.) Held during Suicide Awareness and Prevention Month, Alive & Running is an inspiring, life-affirming gathering of people affected by suicide that remembers loved ones and raises money and awareness for the Didi Hirsch Suicide Prevention Center. The family-friendly...

  • Agent Michael Morabito delivers largest sponsorship in team history

    Greg Goodyear|Aug 24, 2017

    Because of most districts limited athletic budgets most good athletic programs have to fund raise to help offset large costs to run their programs. Since Culver City does not have crowds of 4,000 and 5,000 for its football games the school has to rely on sponsors and major sponsors to help keep a competitive program going. Fortunately, we are blessed in Culver City to have a caring and involved community that likes to help out many of the athletic programs as well as other worthy programs. Recently, generous local REALTOR Michael Morabito of Th...

  • Party Like It's 1939?

    Carole Bell|Aug 24, 2017

    The real danger: Could Fascism replace our democracy? Are we heading to a second Civil War? Are we moving toward nuclear war? Who thought fascism and a Civil War redux would rise again? In the U.S.? At the same time? It's psychological warfare: gutting the EPA, health care, climate change (July 2017 was the hottest July in 137 years of record-keeping (NASA). Fascists oppose democracy and want totalitarianism; Mussolini and Hitler were heroes. It can't happen here. Right? Slippery slope....

  • 2017 Culver City High Football Schedule Thru September 7

    Aug 24, 2017

    . . . . . Schedule and Results: Game 1 - Culver City 58 - West Torrance 27 (Win) Game 2 - Culver City 48 - Torrance 20 (Win) Game 3 - Friday, September 15 at North Torrance Game 4 - Friday, September 22 vs. University Game 5 - Friday, September 29 at Dorsey Game 6 - Friday, October 6 at El Segundo Game 7 - Friday, October 13 vs. Lawndale Game 8 - Friday, October 20 vs. Hawthorne Game 9 - Friday, October 27 at Santa Monica Game 10 - Friday, November 3 vs. Beverly Hills CIF Playoffs Begin -...

  • Rehearsals Have Begun For New Douglas Play "Big Night"

    Aug 24, 2017

    Rehearsals have begun for the world premiere of Paul Rudnick's new play " Big Night." Directed by Tony winner Walter Bobbie (" Chicago" and " Bright Star" )," Big Night" begins previews September 10, opens September 16 and continues through October 8, 2017, at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.The full cast includes, in alphabetical order, Brian Hutchison (" Smokefall" Off-Broadway), Max Jenkins (NBC's " The Mysteries of Laura" ),Kecia Lewis (" The Drowsy Chaperone,"...