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. …

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…

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…

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.…

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…

The Word is ART Gallery in Culver City is seeking artists.  If you are a glass, pottery/ceramic artist,

assemblage, fiber or jewelry designer we are very interested in speaking with you.  If you are serious

about your art career and receiving 100% of your sales sound exciting to you then you want to know

about what being part of The Word is ART Gallery is all about.

Please contact Renee at

thewordisart@gmail.com

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…

Bringing to an end our long Winter of The Muddy Shoes, the Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority has announced that it has entered into a contract with the All American Asphalt Company to pave the Culver City Expo Parking lot. None too soon. 

According to the Expo's Parking Lot Report -- shown in HERE on the thesource.metro.net -- the…

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'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 this art deco column 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.…

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 sign is?

Culver City Times member Kevin Lachoff was the…

In September we reported that a a new Neapolitan-style sourdough pizzeria -- WildCraft Sourdough Pizza -- is coming to the site of the former Le Saint Amour on Culver Boulevard in downtown Culver City. Now, according to LA Eater, we have an opening…

The Actors' Gang Theatre in Culver City will present three performances of Moliere's Tartuffe on January 17th through 19th at 8 pm. A revival of the troupe's 2005 adaptation by David Ball (which the LA TImes called "a blast") the production will go on the road after these performances. Tix are $40 apiece and can be purchased…

Venice Arts Spring 2013  Youth Workshops

The 2013 Spring workshop season runs from Saturday, February 2, 2013, to Saturday, April 27, 2013.



Note: There will be a break from 03/23/13 until 03/30/13. Classes resume Monday, April 2, 2013.





Registration Details

In-person registration is required. To make an appointment, call 310-392-0846 or email info@venice-arts.org. Classes fill…

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Nearly 18 months after a terrible accident, Culver City and the Baldwin Hills Conservancy are celebrating…