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Immersion Reunion – Planning Meeting Coming Up
Si Habla? Tetsudate, kudasai? If you or someone you know graduated from the CCUSD Language Immersion Program, there's a party coming up that you can't miss. The next planning meeting for the Immersion Reunion and Celebration 2011 is Thurs. Feb 3 at 7 p.m. at 11472 Diller Ave. CC. We can use all the help we can get. If you can not make meetings but you still want to help out, check in on the [...]
Park to Playa Meeting Tonight at Kenneth Hahn
Tonight, Jan. 24, from 7 to 9 p.m. the West LA Group of the Sierra club will hold a workshop to discuss the "Park to Playa" campaign at the Kenneth Hahn Recreation Area at 4100 S. La Cienega Blvd. In 2000, the “Park to Playa” vision was first articulated: a seamless trail connecting urban residents with the natural coast. The trail will connect approximately 13 miles from the Baldwin Hills [...]
Culver City Symphony Presents – American Women
It is rare for an orchestra to present a concert dedicated to only American composers, and rarer to present only women composers, and we offer both. The Culver City Symphony will be offering this concert as part of the orchestra’s American Beat series in which an American orchestra performs music of American composers. It is also a historic perspective of works by women composers from the [...]
CCUSD Offers School Tours
Ever wonder what's happening at Culver City schools? Want to learn more about the specific curriculum focus of each school? Want to meet teachers and check out their classrooms? Then, take a tour. Nothing can give you the information about a school in a more direct way than a site tour. If you are the parent of a student, or the parent of a possible incoming student, a tour can show you just what [...]
CCUSD Environmental Sustainability Puts Up the Numbers
In a meeting at the Culver City School District on Jan. 20, the Environmental Sustainability committee met to talk about how to make our schools greener, and save funds while saving energy. As ES Committee Chair Todd Johnson stated, “We can save money on infrastructure, and then we’ll have it to spend on teachers and programs.” The Phase One proposal for the photovoltaic system looks [...]
TechHuman – Scott Wyant
IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT COMPLICATED!! IT SHOULD JUST WORK!! That's what one of my oldest friends said to me after I spent three hours reconnecting his home to the Internet after the December rains. But you know what? It IS that complicated. Like all of us, he's been spoiled. We’ve come to expect simple answers to hugely complex problems. To things "just working." It's probably human [...]
Culver City Bicycle Coalition Rolls Out Family Ride- Jan.30
The Culver City Bicycle Coalition (CCBC) is proud to announce that starting January 30, we will host family bicycle rides on the last Sunday of each month to highlight the best bike routes in Culver City. Join us for fun, friendship and exercise. The rides will be suitable for children and adults alike. Riders must have their own bikes and helmets. When: Sunday, January 30 Where: Starts and [...]
Just a Thought – For Hope, Health and Healing
Once again, we are commemorating the life of an American leader, whose great work was ended by a crazy man with a gun. Once again, as everyone knows, last week a crazy man with a gun opened fire at a political event and killed people. This is about guns, about craziness and about people. In August of 1976, a crazy man named Cato Wilson decided that doctors were evil, and so he went out and [...]
TechHuman – A new column by Scott Wyant
Officially, I'm a librarian. That is to say, when I went back to graduate school in 1989, there were only two places where people were really studying what was to become the Internet. One was the MIT Media Lab (part of the School of Architecture and Planning). The other was the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, which bestows graduate degrees in Library Science. Hence, I'm [...]
AVPA Premiers Two New Films – “iDate” and “The Landlady” at the Frost Film Festival
The Academy of Visual and Performing Art’s Young Filmmakers will premier two new films, “iDate” and “The Landlady,” in the Sony Black Box Theatre (Frost 9) at Culver City High School. In student films as well as professional films, the final product represents the vision of the director. Senior Ben Mullen directed “iDate,” a short story about a face to face encounter between a man [...]
