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Comedy Improv! CCUSD @ The Willows this Weekend
From the team that produced Darn Yankees! and Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, (that you loved - that you were amazed and thrilled by ...) Comedy Improv! is comprised of middle school teams doing fully improvised skits from audience suggestions. Professional teachers and improvisers Jennifer Flack and Eric Price will be running the teams of students as they work their way through [...]
Grant Workshop Succeeds with Info and Action
Kudos to the Culver City Council of PTAs (CCCPTA) for the success of their recent Beginning Grant Writing Workshop. Thirty parents, representing our high school, middle school and all of our elementary schools, participated. The purpose of the training was to create "a grant-writing army" for CCUSD schools. Writing grants gives parent volunteers new sources of funding for the programs they [...]
Crossroads Meets Highways – “Who’s Hungry?”
What might sound like an invitation to dinner is a unique theater piece asking us to consider hunger. What makes it great theater are the blue green waves, the shadow puppets, and the astonishing Delft china of a downwardly mobile life-shift. Not only are the stories being told compelling; they are presented in an provoking and imaginative fashion. Hunger is not something that just happens to [...]
Grant Money Needs Your Input on Spending
In 2011 the City of Culver City and North East Trees were awarded a grant from the State of California Strategic Growth Council (SGC) for a Proposition 84 Urban Greening Planning Program for Sustainable Communities. The Planning Program provides funds to assist projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide multiple benefits. The Culver City Green Space Plan, in partnership with [...]
Save Water and Reduce Waste
Culver City Public Works Environmental Programs and Operations with West Basin Municipal Water District and Golden State Water Company is offering Free High-Efficiency Toilets to Culver City Residents to Help Save Water! Residents have an opportunity to receive up to two FREE high-efficiency toilets by participating in a one-day event in Culver City on Saturday, February 4. This water [...]
Looking Up – Bob Eklund
Earth’s Energy Budget out of Balance Despite Low Solar Activity -- A new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity—not changes in solar activity—are the primary force driving global warming. The study offers an updated calculation of the Earth’s energy imbalance, the difference between the amount of solar energy absorbed by Earth’s surface [...]
Sahli-Wells Endorsements Start to Stack Up
Still early in the campaign, Meghan Sahli-Wells has already received endorsements from U.S. Representative Karen Bass, State Assemblymember Holly Mitchell, Culver City Council Member and former Mayor Christopher Armenta, and all five Culver City School Board members: Karlo Silbiger, Katherine Paspalis, Patricia Siever, Laura Chardiet and Nancy Goldberg. “Meghan's strong commitment to Culver [...]
Hot Combo – Gehry to Design New Jazz Bakery
Having designed L.A.’s signature space for classical music, Frank Gehry is on board to do the same for jazz -– although his pro bono work on a new Culver City home for the Jazz Bakery would be on a much smaller scale than his downtown Walt Disney Concert Hall. According to the Los Angeles Times, Gehry’s involvement became public Monday when the Culver City City Council authorized the [...]
Chamber Endorses Four Candidates for Council
At the Candidate Forum held Tuesday, January 31, by the Culver City Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors where they heard from all six candidates for Culver City Council the board endorsed four candidates, Current Mayor Mehaul O’Leary, Councilmember Andy Weissman, Jim B. Clarke and former councilmember Scott Malsin. "The four endorsed candidates showed the best understanding of the [...]
Dear Editor – Applause for Animal Control Officer
Dear Editor, Recently we found a dog on our back doorstep early one morning. We don’t know how he got there but when he arrived he was very frightened and cold (it was 38 degrees outside and he is a small indoor dog). Fortunately the dog is also very friendly and sociable. We gave him some food, water and affection and started on our journey of trying to find his owner. Part of that journey [...]
