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Culver City Symphony – Save the Date
The Culver City Symphony Orchestra will present it final concert of the 2010-11 Season: “Season’s End - Moscow Bound.” The concert is set for Saturday, June 11 7:30 p.m., at Veteran's Memorial Auditorium. This concert features two special soloists in an unheard of situation for a concert: in the week after this concert the two young soloists who will be performing with the orchestra, [...]
Mayme Clayton Museum to Screen “I’m Not Black, I’m Coloured”
On Monday, may 23, the Mayme Clayton Museum and Library will screen "I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured," a film examining the legacy of apartheid from the viewpoint of Cape Town's Coloured citizens. Considered the majority population in the Western Cape Province, under the apartheid laws they were neither white nor black racially. In 1994 South Africa's Coloured community embraced Bishop Desmond [...]
Dear Editor- Car Show Gets Tickets
The eighth time was the charm. On Saturday the 8th Annual Culver City Car Show took place in Downtown Culver City. Two Monday nights ago Culver City Council rewarded the Car Show “Event Operator” and Culver City’s Parking Enforcement for last year’s poor performance in fulfilling their obligation to help protect the Culver Downtown Neighborhood from intrusion. People looking for [...]
Schools Protest Sacramento Budget Cuts
On May 13 at 7:30 a.m., the normally quiet schools of Culver City started the day early. A call from the PTA to protest against the budget cuts coming from Sacramento turned out crowds at all the schools. Armed with signs, both parents and teachers rallied to save the California education system from further disaster. School Board President Scott Zeidman noted "It's great that our parents are [...]
Homes With Heart – Heather Coombs-Perez
Although bathrooms are the most utilitarian of rooms, they don’t need to be boring. In our little city with its older, tract, and often single-bathroom houses, they can often be small and uninviting with outdated cabinetry, fixtures and little imagination. To make matters worse, did you know that the attractiveness of a bathroom can often lure or detract interested buyers? In today’s [...]
Seat Belts are Required – Click it or Ticket
One Million Californians Still Not Buckling Up-- As families across California plan for upcoming travel, there’s not much you can do to control the cost of filling up the gas tank, but you can avoid a costly ticket by making sure that everyone in the car wears their seat belt. Law enforcement throughout the state, including the Culver City Police Department will be looking for unbelted drivers [...]
Tide Rolls in at School Board Meeting
Michelle Vogel, proud Linwood E. Howe parent, stood at the podium of the school board meeting on Tuesday May 10 and said, “We are not going away. This is our chance to fight for what is important to us, and we will keep coming back.” The fact that she had a baby strapped to her chest and a small child by the hand made it clear how long-term her commitment would be. Michelle was only one [...]
Safe Routes to School Needs You Now – Contact Barbara Boxer
Safe Routes to School needs you to act now to Save Bicycling and Walking in the Transportation Bill. Senator Boxer needs to hear from California Safe Routes to School supporters RIGHT NOW. The committee she leads, the Environment and Public Works Committee, is deciding what goes into the transportation bill today and tomorrow. She needs to know that we want her to fight for bicycling and [...]
Ballona Creek Task Force – May 17
The sky is blue, the weather is sweet, and it's time to take care of Mother Nature. On Tuesday May 17, from 1:30 to 3;30 p.m. in the Dan Pataccia Room at Culver City City Hall, the Ballona Creek Watershed Task Force will be meeting and you can ad in your ideas and enthusiasm. Presentation topics include student watershed work, Ballona Creek pollutant monitoring, and the Park to Playa trail [...]
Looking Up – Bob Eklund
Sailing the Titan Seas: NASA Selects Mission to Saturn’s Moon -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., is managing a project to explore the organic seas of Saturn’s moon Titan, one of three proposals selected by NASA last week as candidates for the agency’s next Discovery Program mission. The Titan Mare Explorer, or TiME, would perform the first [...]
