Culver City, CA - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Mu Lambda Omega Chapter in conjunction with Los Angeles City Council President Herb J. Wesson, Jr. and the West Adams Neighborhood Council will host the AKA 1908 Playground Clean Up at Rancho Cienega Sports Complex on Saturday, May 21, 2016 from 1 pm – 4 pm located at 5001 Rodeo Road, Los Angeles, CA  90016. The AKA 1908 Playground Project…

There are many volunteer opportunities in the Culver City community, including: the L.A. Film Festival; Culver City Rain Garden restoration; L.A. Goal and the Teens & Adults with Disabilities Advancing Autonomy, Advocacy and Awareness (TADAA Program); and Food Forward gleanings at the Culver City’s Farmers Market. For information on volunteering, contact Jill Thomsen in…

On April 15, more than 100 Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) volunteers participated in Sony Global Volunteer Day, an annual event in which Sony employees around the world give back to their communities.  This year the volunteers took their shovels, paint brushes, and elbow grease to Linwood E. Howe Elementary School in Culver City to complete several projects, including:…

The Los Angeles Times recently highlighted two Culver City galleries openings this Saturday, April 23: those at Kapeikin Gallery & Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.

Here's what Times writer Carolina A. Miranda said about…

Many remember scoring that goal or winning a race fondly from childhood. But growing up doesn’t have to mean the end of team sports! Two swimmers, Rossella Pescatori and Chris Wall, have kept competing as adults, which helps them both remember how they fell in love with the water in the first place.

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Louis Gossett Jr., was an incredible phenomenon at the young age of 17. His intrinsic nature as an actor won him sensational accolades as he continuously captured the attention of large audiences when he replaced Bill Gunn as Spencer Scott on Broadway’s “Take A Giant Step,” while simultaneously attended school at Lincoln High. His all-time career began with a vision…

The Los Angeles Fire Department and Marina Del Rey Firefighters were dispatched to a greater fire alarm at  Mariners Bay Apartments and Anchorage at approximately 6:50 am this morning, Saturday. The 11 fire trucks at 14000 Palawan Way fought a fire on the first floor to the second and third floors where paramedics treated individuals for…

 Gloria Berlin, the former starlet who was a mainstay with Frank Sinatra and close friends with Michael Jackson is having a film produced on her life. Berlin, an actress during her era, caught Frank Sinatra's eye when she wrote for the Times in Hollywood. Sinatra had lost Ava Gardner and he fell in love with Berlin. After two and a half years, Gloria lost Sinatra to another lady and as a result ended up meeting Elvis Presley at a party near the Beverly Hills Hotel. Years later she  became a…

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FIREFIGHTERS WALK FOR WYANT

Culver City, CA (April 5, 2016) – Last month the Culver City Firefighters Association endorsed Scott Wyant for Culver City Council.  Now the Firefighters are hitting the pavement…

If you have spent time learning how to design and build a website, you may have found the process to be interesting and fun - but also frustrating.

Over the past years I have taught many people how to create a website, and what I have found in almost every case is that the technical part was easier to master than the design part. 

Perhaps because many of us know basic computer functions, there is an openness to learn the technical details that the 'art' part.

To help…

LA’s award-winning “Best Badass Burlesque” show returns with the show you Hate to Love, and Love to Hate.

The Wrong Show:  Trigger Happy

A Night of Politically Incorrect Burlesque

Featuring:  

Interracial Freaky Friday—what happens when black and white want to switch skin…

Re-election Campaign Adds to Impressive List of Supporters

With less than three weeks before the election April 12, Culver City Police Officers Association has joined Culver City Firefighters Association, Employees Association, and a growing roster of notable individuals and organizations in their enthusiastic praise for Sahli-Wells’ leadership, and…

When you are choosing your bank for the first time, or you are looking for a new bank that is better and offering you more than your current bank, you want to know what to look for. This is just to make sure that you don’t make a mistake again. About the different branches, you can check out bankopenhours.com for more info, but if you want to find a bank that is right for you, then you should make sure that you are considering these…

In a recent profile in Westside Today, writer Mariella Rudi makes an argument for the Culver City's Corner Door as the "go-to neighborhood bar and restaurant" in the area.

According to the article, last year the Corner Door "got a major boost in…

If you Google "Women Laughing Alone With Salad" you'll see that as far back as 2011, careful observers of commercial advertising have noted the prevalence of photographs of pretty young women, holding salad and smiling as if they had never had so much fun—an image that conflates salad with a near-hysterical level of self-realization and self-control.

Or as one commenter…

California is one of America's most lovely and prevalent states for tourism. From stormy ski resorts to dry desert scenes you can have it all – however all that decision likewise implies California can get costly fast. California not so cheap city in some things, binary options sometimes could help to settle money problems. Between airfare, enormous urban communities like San Francisco and…

The city of Los Angeles will pay up to $30 million to settle a legal claim over its routine of upholding curfews for suspected group individuals. Looks like this time LA government lost this lottery gabbling. The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to favor the assention, which came after a few inhabitants said they were mislabeled as…

The internationally renowned German muralists and street artists known as Herakut are currently working on a (pretty magnificent) new mural on the grounds of Culver City High School.

UPDATE: An associate of Herakut contacted me to let me know, "The German graffiti artist duo is in town to not only promote the high school’s…