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Update on City's Homeless Efforts at this Week's Meeting The Culver City Police Department provided a presentation on Gun Violence Restraining Orders (GVRO). A GVRO is a civil court order requested by law-enforcement officers and select civilians, such as immediate family members, employers, or co-worker, when a person poses a danger to themselves or others. It prohibits controlling, possessing, purchasing, or receiving firearms, ammunition, and magazines. When used properly, a GVRO is one of...
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass tonight delivered the 2024 State of the City address. During her address, Mayor Bass said that while there is still much work to be done, the state of our city is stronger because of work done to disrupt the status quo and work to lock arms with all levels of government. Watch the speech here. "Let me say right here at the beginning – the state of our city is stronger today because we have made change and disrupted the status quo," said Mayor Bass. "Over the last y...
I was waiting to enter LAX so I could see Air Force One and meet important people, possibly the president. While I waited, police motorcycles, cars, limos, firetrucks and many black Suburbans entered the airport. When the Secret Service let us in, they told us to get out of our car while the K9 police dog Officer Bobby searched it. Afterwards we followed a police car to a parking spot on the tarmac. The Secret Service agent scanned us to see if we had any forbidden items. Afterwards, Kid Scoop...
The season still has a long way to go but the Culver City varsity baseball team is looking like a team that has moved into the category of being a good solid high school baseball team. Under the guidance of second year head coach, Devaughn Wallace the Centaurs are currently 8-1 and appear to be ready to be competitive in the tough Bay league. Every game in the Bay league will be a dog fight. "We will take it one game at a time," said Wallace after practice last week. On Tuesday they travel a...
The season still has a long way to go but the Culver City varsity baseball team is looking like a team that has moved into the category of being a good solid high school baseball team. Under the guidance of second year head coach, Devaughn Wallace the Centaurs are currently 8-1 and appear to be ready to be competitive in the tough Bay league. Every game in the Bay league will be a dog fight. "We will take it one game at a time," said Wallace after practice last week. On Tuesday they travel a...
Kentwood Players proudly presents STEEL MAGNOLIAS by Robert Harling. Performance dates are Friday, March 15 through Saturday, April 6, 2024, on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm, and Sundays at 2:00pm. Saturday matinees at 2:00pm will be added on March 23 and continue through the rest of the run. This is a non-equity, all-volunteer production directed by Jon Sparks and produced by Alison Boole and Kirk Larson for Kentwood Players with rights secured from Dramatists Play Service. Featured in the...
Santa Monica Public Library's Soundwaves new music series welcomes saxophonist/composer/filmmaker Chris Jonas on March 2 at 3:30PM, for a special performance in the Multipurpose Room of the Main Library at 601 Santa Monica Blvd. During the 1990s Jonas lived in New York, performing with creative music legends including Anthony Braxton, Lawrence "Butch" Morris, William Parker, and Cecil Taylor, as well as leading his own groups. Now in New Mexico, his current project is a set of compositions for...
By On Saturday at the YouTube Theater, America, founded by musicians Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, treated their adoring fans to the hits they've been performing for 53 years, and 100 concerts consistently every year. Dan Peek, also a founding member who passed away in 2011, I know is smiling down from the heavens as Bunnell and Beckley carry the torch for him. The three were barely out of high school when they first made a splash in the British folk-rock scene as America. Not only did they...
NON-FOOD VENDORS: 1. Charmed Jewelry 2. AMO marketing 3. Brownhaze Jewelry 4. Vivian Lesny & Co. 5. Rosy's boutique 6. Olivia Graye 7. Save CCUSD 8. Epik Realty 9. Bluskysoul 10. Ting 11. Thumzup Media 12. Mayan Craft 13. Terranova Real Estate Group Non-profit list: 1. Culver City Democrats Club 2. AYSO region 19 3. Culver City Democrats United 4. Culver-Palms Family YMCA 5. Crescent Bay District, Western Los Angeles County Council, Boy Scouts of America 6. Temple Akiba of Culver City 7....
George Martin Spaltro passed away on August 8, 2023. George was born February 18, 1943, in Portland Maine. He was 80 years of age at his death. George served as a cook in the US Army; 4th Infantry Division and did a tour of duty in Vietnam. George worked in the traffic lighting industry for over 40 years until his retirement in 2010. He traveled a lot thru those years and often boasted that he had been to every State and State Capital in the United States except one. For the past 11 years he had...
After the National Hurricane Center issued its first ever tropical storm watch for Southern California today, Mayor Karen Bass announced preparedness measures the City is taking for heavy rain and winds, and urged Angelenos to stay vigilant and utilize city resources. Watch the press conference hosted earlier today here. "As we head into this weekend, I urge Angelenos to continue monitoring the hurricane and be mindful of extreme weather warnings," said Mayor Karen Bass. "We know the severe impact that weather can have on our communities. I am...
The Santa Monica Public Library’s acclaimed Soundwaves new music series continues with events in September through December, all at the Main Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium, 601 Santa Monica Blvd. All the musical performances are on Saturdays at 3:30 p.m. September 2, at 3:30 p.m., rising star Patrick Shiroishi presents music for four saxophonists. On October 7 Anna Homler sings in invented languages and creates sound with found objects, joined by Jorge Martin on electronics and ser...
The Santa Monica Public Library’s acclaimed Soundwaves concert series presents a free performance by The Smudges, on June 3, 2023 at 3:30PM, in the Pico Branch Library Annex in Virginia Avenue Park, at the corner of Pico and Cloverfield. The Smudges are violinist Jeff Gauthier and cellist Maggie Parkins. They play new music which often incorporates improvisation and electronics. Each has a substantial history in Los Angeles creative music, with jazz and classical roots. Gauthier has collaborated extensively with Alex and Nels Cline, GE S...
"Uncle Bill's Animal Tales - Life Lessons for Adults" is a book of humorous and heartfelt stories on how animals are our best teachers and healers. (They don't care who you voted for!) They live in the day. They teach us unconditional love and independence. They also show us how important the cycle of life is, in the present moment, and in death. How can we not love them up?! The animals that have come into Bill's life over the years have helped him to grow as a human being, and assisted him in...
Digital Calendars, LLC has Created the DigiCalendar Brand. The intent of DigiCalendar is to eliminate the Traditional Paper Box Calendars - many which end up in landfills. DigiCalendar is programmed for the next 50 years so the need to purchase annual calendars is eliminated. The Digital Dog Calendar is our newest version. Thousands of the most popular Dog Breeds change automatically every day. The Digital Calendar eliminates the biggest problem with the traditional paper box calendar -...
Local pet parents have a reason to celebrate: Wag Hotels has opened in Santa Monica, California! The highly-anticipated Wag Hotels Santa Monica is ready to welcome lucky dogs and cats. With over 4,000 square feet of supervised outdoor play yards, a range of private rooms and suites to choose from, a retail boutique stocked with treats, toys and pet couture, and a luxurious grooming salon - there's a lot to wag your tail over. Wag Hotels is the ultimate stay and play resort for dogs and cats....
Monday - February 1310:00 - check in – social followed by the meeting at10:30 am It is that time of year, candy, music, flowers, please join us at the Culver City Woman’s Club for a very special Valentine Day Meeting. I hear there might be some surprises. We will be giving an update on Zoey, the therapy dog and the Puppy Room Project at No Limits School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Zoey, is so adorable. So many upcoming events will be available. Please join us. Our club truly has much to offer. The Culver City Woman’s Club is a non-p...
The Culver City Police Department is looking for a man who robbed at gunpoint a 79-year-old woman near the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Indian Wood Road last Sunday. The victim was sitting on a fire hydrant after walking her dog when the suspect approached the victim from behind, wrapped his arms around her neck and threw her to the ground, according to the police department. “The suspect was holding a handgun in his left hand while forcefully removing the victim’s cell phone which was attached with a lanyard around her neck,” CCPD said...
The Culver City Police Department is looking for a man who robbed at gunpoint a 79-year-old woman near the corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Indian Wood Road last Sunday. The victim was sitting on a fire hydrant after walking her dog when the suspect approached the victim from behind, wrapped his arms around her neck and threw her to the ground, according to the police department. “The suspect was holding a handgun in his left hand while forcefully removing the victim’s cell phone which was attached with a lanyard around her neck,” CCPD said...
Angel City Football Club received the worst possible news on Monday, June 13. The club confirmed that team leader and forward Christen Press sustained a season-ending ACL injury in the 63rd minute at Racing Louisville on Saturday night. ACFC rallied to beat Louisville, 3-2, on Savannah McCaskill's penalty conversion in stoppage time, but that took a back seat to Press' injury. Undeniably, it is a cruel blow to the first-year franchise that improved its record to 4-3-1. "We are gutted that...
Angel City FC received the worst possible news on Monday, June 13. The club confirmed that team leader and forward Christen Press sustained a season-ending ACL injury in the 63rd minute at Racing Louisville on Saturday night. ACFC rallied to beat Louisville, 3-2, on Savannah McCaskill's penalty conversion in stoppage time, but that took a back seat to Press' injury. Undeniably, it is a cruel blow to the first-year franchise that improved its record to 4-3-1. "We are gutted that Christen has...
Betty Trepany, 98, longtime resident of Santa Monica, was born in Detroit to George and Elizabeth McClellan. After graduating from high school, she entered the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary convent in Monroe, Mich. She realized she was being called in a different direction and left before taking her final vows. She continued teaching after leaving the convent and always looked fondly on the years she spent teaching elementary school. She was overjoyed when students she taught in fourth grade at St. Augustine in Culver City...
"Two Marines killed, several wounded. I was hesitant to write about this, however, it's the reality of this place. Everyone in the battalion is getting through this." - Ricardo Crocker, in one of his e-mail dispatches to his Santa Monica Police Department colleagues About 100 runners took place in the second Rick Crocker memorial run on Thursday 5.2622. The run started at the Santa Monica Pier Inglewood mayor James Butts said "I hired Rick Crocker, we all loved the guy." Butts was the police chi...
By Christine Peake, Peakeprgroup.com 5.18: Mash Gallery successfully opened it's new location doors this past weekend and hundreds of the Los Angeles art community were on hand to admire the stunning collection of works on display at the new 'Formless Form' exhibit. The much anticipated red carpet event was the place to be with crowds spilling out onto La Cienega Blvd for the duration of the four hour event. Gallery owner, Santa Monica resident, the stunning Haleh Mashian was the Queen Bee of...
The popular fan favorite event, Pups at the Park, has added a second night at Dodger Stadium in 2022 after selling out its first date on May 14. The second Pups at the Park event, presented by Lucy Pet Foods, will be held on Monday, September 5 as the Dodgers take on their arch-rivals, the San Francisco Giants, at 7:10 p.m. Dodger fans can purchase a ticket package for the right field pavilion and bring their dog to the game. Prior to the game, fans will be able to parade their dog for a walk...
