Improve your garden, reduce waste and conserve water by taking a Smart Gardening Beginning Composting Workshop on Saturday, February 22, from 9:30 am to 11:00 am at the Veterans Memorial Building, located at 4117 Overland Avenue in the Garden Room.  The event is hosted by Public Works Environmental Programs and Operations and Los Angeles County Public Works

This…

The Culver City Symphony will perform this Saturday, February 22, at 8:00 pm at the Veteran's Memorial Auditorium. The program is unique in that it will feature concertos for both the viola and for the bass in one concert. The works will include:

Handel/Casadesus: Concerto for Viola (1924?), Benjamin Chilton-Viola

Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1, C Major, Hob. VIIb/1 (1761-65), Will Cravy-Bass

(Arranged for Bass…

Every other Friday, I post a picture of something in Culver City that is 'hiding in plain sight.' Last week I asked: Do you know where in Culver City these weird creatures are?

Two Culver City Times members --…

The Baldwin Hills Conservancy has approved funding for a pedestrian path to be built adjacent to Hetzler Road -- the private street that currently winds its way up to the Baldwin Hills Overlook. The path will be approximately 10 feet wide and 1500 feet long. 

Since its opening in 2009, the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook has become a popular destination for visitors from…

Starting this Saturday, Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City will feature collaborative works by pioneering Los Angeles graffiti artist RISK and and Nathan Ota. Here's what the gallery says about the works: "Combining their masteries of street and surreal styles, the exhibition promises to be an amazing evolution of their collaboration and an exploration of…

Last week, two new restaurants opened downtown Culver City -- in the long-unused building off to the side of the Pacific Theatre. The building is there on the right of the above picture -- you can see how close it is to the Culver Hotel. Culver City trivia: it's our city's original city hall, police department and fire department.…

The Los Angeles Times' Christopher Knight calls artist Tony de los Reyes' "Border Theory" at Angles Gallery "seductive and savvy...leavened with a dose of sly wit."

"Something like the border between the United States and Mexico doesn't ordinarily come to mind when considering abstract paintings," Knight observes. "Yet for the last two years, Tony de los Reyes has been…

Culver City's Veterans Memorial Auditorium will host the Actors Hall of Fame's FIRST Annual Actors Hall of Fame Induction Celebration on Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 2 p.m. In this inaugural ceremony, the following actors will be inducted: Julie Andrews, Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Angela Lansbury, Robert Duvall, Anthony Hopkins, William H.…

Every other Thursday, I post a picture of something in Culver City that is 'hiding in plain sight.' -- asking Culver City Times members if they know where it is.

Today the question is: Do you know where in Culver City these wild creatures are? If you know, enter your response in the comments box of this post.

If your answer fails to appear in the comments section…

This week, the Culver City Chamber of Commerce announced its endorsement of incumbents Jim Clarke and Jeff Cooper in the Culver City Council election this April. Councilman Clarke and Mayor Cooper received the endorsement after a review process that included written responses on the important issues, a review of each candidate's record of public service and an interview…

Cooper Komatsu stood tall and confidently spelled the word A-P-P-R-E-H-E-N-S-I-O-N to take home the Ninth Annual Culver City Unified School District Spelling Bee title on February 3 at Linwood E. Howe Elementary School. The six-grader from Culver City Middle School finished atop 23 other spellers – four students from each of the district’s five elementary…

Today, the Culver City notified the owner of the Culver City Ice Rink property -- as well as new lessee Planet Granite -- of the following:

"The City of Culver City has been evaluating information relating to the proposed change of use by Planet Granite of the Culver City Ice Arena.  At the urging of the City Council, city staff continued its…

Every other Friday, I post a picture of something in Culver City that is 'hiding in plain sight.' Last week I asked: Do you know where in Culver City this bank of windows is?

I was very pleased to finally be able…

The city has announced plans to widen Culver Boulevard between Sepulveda Blvd. and Elenda Street (Elenda is the street with the traffic light). If the above 'simulation' illustration (looking eastbound at Huron Ave.) is any indication, the project will include the creation of (very welcome) left-hand turn lanes. And considering the way west-bound Culver Blvd. backs…

MENDING KIDS ELECTS NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS

Mending Kids International (MKI) has elected its 2014-2015 slate of officers.  MKI is a Burbank based non-profit organization that gives children in the U.S.…

Registration has begun for the 2014 United States Youth Volleyball League Spring Season in Culver City. The 8-week youth volleyball league takes place at Linwood E. Howe Elementary School from April 10 through May 31, and runs $150 per child. For families with more than one child, multi-child discounts are available. 

The league has taught more…

The Los Angeles Times' David Pagel has reviewed the new show by Matthew Pankala at Western Project Gallery in Culver City, saying that the artist's new works fuse "over-the-rainbow gorgeousness" with a "dreamy disquiet" to subtly unsettling effect.

Says Pagel: "Combining the instantaneous appeal of eye-grabbing attractions with the lasting satisfactions of time-tested…

Planet Granite -- the climbing, yoga, and fitness company that will replace the Culver City Ice Skating with their new facility -- has responded to "the skating community's concerns" in an open letter on its website. To date the company's post has generated a whopping 326 responses, most of which sharply criticize Planet's plan to take over this location as well as the…

Every other Thursday, I post a picture of something in Culver City that is 'hiding in plain sight.' -- asking Culver City Times members if they know where it is.

Today the question is: Do you know where in Culver City this bank of windows is? If you know, enter your response in the comments box of this post.

If your answer fails to appear in the comments section…

East Borough, a new Vietnamese restaurant in downtown Culver City began serving lunch this week and will begin dinner service next week. An extension of a popular Costa Mesa restaurant, East Borough offers a variety of Bahn Mi (traditional Vietnamese) sandwiches, which offer grilled pork or meatballs or chicken salad or tofu or sardines, etc., with cucumbers,…