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Memorial Day – A Boy Scout placing flags on the graves at the Veterans Cemetery in Westwood, on May 29.

Dr. Nicholas Deuson, classical guitarist and winner of the Pacific Guitar Festival 2010 will be playing at the Culver City Julian Dixon Library on May 22 at 2 p.m. Deuson is an amazing musician who also teaches at Cal State Channel Islands. Come to the library for some classical guitar. Click below to listen to [...]

I was up by Bill Botts field and heard someone playing Blind Willie Johnson’s Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground… 1-05 Dark Was the Night, Cold Was th

Culver City Crossroads got to talk with musician and composer Louis Durra about his newest project; a year @ piano. Durra is a resident of Culver City and an artist with an international reputation who is always looking to expand the boundaries of his compositions. His plan to post a new piece of music every [...]

Here I thought I was alone at Vets Park, and I caught this squirrel looking at me.

Artworks! raised $25,000 this year to pay for arts programming at Farragut Elementary School. The new location at the trendy gallery “Royal/T Artspace” brought in 400 guests to a packed in crowd to celebrate the 500-piece gallery art show and adults-only cocktail evening with silent and live auctions. “Artworks! has truly become a community event [...]

I was taking photos of some painted mannequins set up in a yard at Kinston and Pickford and met the artist, Eveready Eddie. He would qualify in my mind as an “outsider artist” except he is very aware of art and design… maybe we can call them a sign of spring.

If you have been paying attention to the machinations of the City Council during the past two years, you already have an opinion about Scott Malsin. While “love” and “hate” seem to be very strong words to use in regard to the council, they have been used in regard to Scott.  His work on green [...]

As the city council campaign comes down to the last few days, candidate Jeff Cooper sat down with Culver City Crossroads at Green Peas for coffee and some questions. After the earliest campaign kick-off in memory, the Cooper campaign stayed active but low key until last month, when the lawn signs began to sprout in [...]

In a surprising retreat from his previous position, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Ramon Cortines decided yesterday, April 6, that LAUSD students attending other districts would be able to do so through the next school year (2010-2011). With almost 1400 permit students in the Culver City School District, the restriction of permits as proposed [...]

Culver City Crossroads spoke with city council candidate Meghan Sahli-Wells on April 6 at 10:30 a.m. at the Tokyo 77 coffee shop downtown. Sahli-Wells was her usual confident and candid self, and she gave us her thoughts about the challenges facing Culver City, the campaign and her unique status in the race. Clearly understanding how [...]

Bringing the Culver City council campaign to a close, Crossroads will be giving the candidates one more chance to sum up. Candidate Robert Zirgulis spoke with Crossroads on April 5 at 10:30 a.m. about his latest focus. While seemingly unconcerned about matters such as the budget shortfall, the search for a new city manager, and [...]

Saturday March 27,  Culver City had it’s last city council candidates forum before the April 13 election at Farragut Elementary. Candidates Scott Malsin, Meghan Sahli-Wells, Jeff Cooper and Robert Zirgulis were all there to present their positions on public school, business and residential priorities, and how to plan for the future. If you didn’t have [...]

A small crowd of spring bunnies seems to be looking forward to the holiday. Photo by Robert Rissman.

Culver City has a new Animal Services Officer, and Crossroads sat down to ask her a few questions and get to know her. Listen to what she has to say about her first pet (a boa constrictor!) her professional background and her new desk at the CCPD. corolla fleeger 1 corolla fleeger 2

Crossroads is celebrating Women’s History Month by interviewing some of our most notable political females; the former mayors of Culver City. In a video presentation, Jozelle Smith, in her own words-

City council candidate Meghan Sahli-Wells sat down with Culver City Crossroads at the Grand Casino on Main Street last week, and spoke about her run for office and what Culver City means to her. After growing up here and then living abroad for many years, she made the decision to return home to raise her [...]

Crossroads interviewed City Council candidate Robert Zirgulis at his “coffee chat” station on Sunday morning Feb. 14 at downtown Culver City’s Starbucks. With his dog Bowie as his “campaign manager” in attendance, Zirguilis talked about why he is in the race, and offered his views on (surprise!) “environmentally safe oil drilling” and red light cameras. [...]

Culver City Crossroads sat down with Jeff Cooper before his fundraiser at Kay ‘n Dave’s restaurant in downtown Culver City on Sat. Feb. 6 and listened to his thoughts about running for council, and why he’s on the ballot. Click on the interview below. Inverview with Jeff Cooper

Paul Ehrlich was kind enough to point out this video to us. Did you know that many scenes in the Hal Roach comedies were shot on the streets of Culver City? The brilliant designer and pop culture historian Piet Schreuders show us today Culver City and shows us what it was like back then.  He [...]

As we look forward to April’s election for the City Council, Crossroads will be interviewing each of the candidates to hear their voices and get their views. We met with current Council Member Scott Malsin, who is seeking a second term in office, at the downtown Starbucks in the Washington Building on Feb. 2 at [...]