Held and Bordy Family Gallery

1 – 25 February 2013

Windward School

1350 Palms Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90066

Tel.: 310-391-7127

This year we are pleased to announce an installation by international artist Antonio Jose Guzman. Based in Amsterdam, Dakar, and Panama City, Guzman’s multimedia installations explore migration, diasporas, and the moving, mixing, and clashing of world cultures. His installations…

Every other Friday, I'll post a picture of something in Culver City that is 'hiding in plain sight.'

This time, the question is: Do you know where in Culver City these luscIous lips are? If you know, enter your response in the comments box of this post! I'll reveal the answer in two weeks, on Thursday. Then the next day, I'll post a new game.…

Every other Friday, I post a picture of something in Culver City that is 'hiding in plain sight.' Two weeks ago I asked: Do you know where in Culver City all this Love is?

"Where Am I" all-star Luis Lopez correctly identified it…

According to LA Eater, a Scandinavian restaurant called Gravlax is coming to the Southwest corner of Washington Blvd. and Centinela in Culver City. It's the former home of Dreamworld Comics, which has moved to the (long-vacant gas station)…

 Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Los Angeles and it's surroundings counties counted  the vulnerable population in their communities.  Culver City…

Culver City institution Dreamworld Comics has relocated one block north -- from the Southwest corner of Washington BOULEVARD and Centinela to the southwest corner of Washington PLACE and Centinela.

When we saw that the comics store had moved, my kids mourned the loss of the cool bat-cave room in the previous location (see below), but during a brief conversation this…

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Beats Electronics, maker of the high-end headphones Beats by Dre, is relocating their headquarters from Santa Monica to the above building on Stellar Drive in Culver City's Hayden Tract.

Helmed by…

Architects Abramson Teiger have released new renderings of the complex of five retail and office building that will be built across Washington Blvd. from the Culver City Expo Line Station -- replacing the Branded Arts Building. Calling the project PLATFORM (exclamation point implied), the architect says the buildings will offer cafes, restaurants, retail stores, and 'creative…

Do you or a loved one suffer from an illness like migraines, rheumatoid arthritis or chronic fatigue syndrome? KPCC reporter José Martinez is working on a series of stories that…

Artist Alexandros Vasmoulakis' new show,"Figures" -- portraits, with hints of Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon -- opens at LaBasse Projects in Culver City this Saturday, February 9th. The opening reception is from 6 pm to 9 pm, and, as always, the public is welcome. The show runs until February 23rd. 

Concurrently, LeBasse is showing new pieces…

According a recent City Manager's Report to the Culver City Council, the affordable housing project at Tilden Terrace in Culver City is 60 percent complete, with a completion date projected for May 31, 2013.  City staff will work with the Developer, Los Angeles Housing Partnership, to initiate the tenant outreach and application process in February. …

WIth the loss of the city's redevelopment agency and its Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund, Culver City lost $8 million annually -- a significant blow to the creation of affordable housing in Culver City. Assemblymember Holly Mitchell and the City Council of the City of Culver City invite you to attend a roundtable discussion on the future of creating affordable…

Chef Walter el Nagar (formerly of La Botte) and his partner Mario Vollera of Piccolo Venice are presenting a special menu -- which they're calling Barbershop Ristorante Italiano -- at La Petite Creperie from Wednesday to Saturday evenings until February 16.  According…

Inspired by a resolution from United Nations from October of 2010 calling for the celebration of World Interfaith Harmony Week, the Culver City-based World Interfaith Harmony Film Festival offers screenings from February 6 to February 10 of films on themes of peace, non-violence, social justice, and environmental balance. Screenings are held at the Magnin Theatre at the…

Every other Friday, I'll post a picture of something in Culver City that is 'hiding in plain sight.'

This time, the question is: Do you know where in Culver City all this love is? If you know, enter your response in the comments box of this post! I'll reveal the answer in two weeks, on Thursday. Then the next day, I'll post a new game.…

The current show at Roberts & Tilton Gallery in Culver City is an exhibition of photographs by Ed Templeton. The show, titled "Memory Foam," presents Templeton's impressions of the people of Huntington Beach, CA.

Here's a video with some pretty wild highlights from the show's January 12 opening, featuring bottomless jumprope, celebs, swearing, and a cool soundtrack…

LA Curbed is reporting that Bastion Development Corp. is planning to build a 4-Story, 100-Unit mixed-use building at the Northwest corner of Washington and Inglewood. The picture above is not the proposed design of the building on the corner in question, but it is another apartment house being built right down the street (just east of CostCo) by the same developer. So it…

Every other Friday, I post a picture of something in Culver City that is 'hiding in plain sight.' Two weeks ago I asked: Do you know where in Culver City this art deco column is?

Culver City Times member Luis Lopez was the…

Businesses continue to open in the new shopping center at the corner of Washington Blvd. & Sepulveda. Last week saw the opening of Zinga! Frozen Yogurt (the exclamation point is for taste!). I don't know how you feel, but as far as Culver City yogurt places go, my family prefers Menchies (on Sawtelle, across the street from Toys R Us) to Yogurtland (on Overland). Of…