On Saturday, April 30th, from 12:30 to 4pm, join your Culver City neighbors on a bike tour of some of the most beautiful and environmentally friendly gardens in Mar Vista.…

According to City Manager John Nachbar in the April 21-27 Culver City Observer, the commercial buildings from 12469 to 12477 Washington Blvd. (including Gloria's Cake & Candy Supplies and the Pacific Eye Care) as well as the properties from 12453 to 12461 Washington Blvd. are scheduled to be renovated as a project of the Community Development Agency.

So . .…

Two weeks ago "the Rush Street Guys" -- Brian McKeany and Ken Kaufman -- opened a new restaurant in downtown Culver City: City Tavern. It offers refined comfort food (according to their website) or artisanal foods (according to our waitress), which in this case means good burgers, a couple of fish…

The newest mural in Culver City is also one of the most jaw-dropping.  In conjunction with his solo show at the Corey Helford Gallery, British street artist D*Face painted this piece across the entire side of the gallery building during the first week in April. 

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Reminding us that all movies are, on some level, documentaries, this video does an great job of identifying the locations around Main Street in downtown Culver City where Laurel and Hardy did their thing. Their "thing" being, in this case, involving things like inexpertly stealing a bicycle and being persistently pursued by a goat. That's a clip from…

In a recent profile in the Los Angeles Times, screenwriter Max Winkler -- son of the Fonz himself -- said he wrote most of the script to his new movie "Ceremony" while sitting in the tea room at the Museum of Jurassic Technology. One can only hope that some of that museum's weird vibe made its way into the finished product.

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Gallery 9 on Washington Blvd. is hosting an evening of art and wine this Wednesday, the 21st, between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.

Participating galleries include Cardwell Jimmerson,…

The good news is that if you want to see President Barack Obama in person, you'll be able to do so right here in Culver City on April 21.

The bad news is that it's a re-election fundraiser at Sony Pictures Studio, so I'll cost you. Tickets for the event are $250 for general admission and $2,500 for VIP seating.

Go to President Obama's re-election…

I spend a fair amount of time at the Helms Bakery whether it's the eclectic cool HD Buttercup furniture, the great French cafe La Dijonaise,…