Aaron Swerdlow is Equitas Investments, LLC and Festival Development Partners, LLC. He has invested in 4436 Sepulveda Boulevard and wants to build a 7-Eleven. It would be Culver City's sixth 7-Eleven and would also be five short blocks from a "Mom and Pop" convenience store known as Overland Mini Mart.

http://www.equitasinvestments.com/index.html

Read about his company, their approach and what they have…

Batch Restaurant & Bar in the Art District of Culver City opened in late-December. The restaurant's executive chef is Salvador Roldan of Ford's Filling Station, and its specialty cocktails are created by Mat Gries of Church & State, the french bistro in downtown Los Angeles.

Staff writer Leiloni de Gruy, in the…

The Culver City Council candidate submitted election documents at City Hall on Tuesday following a standing room only campaign launch event on Sunday. 

Meghan Sahli-Wells filed papers on Tuesday that will place her name on the ballot for Culver City Council. The longtime community volunteer is running for one of four Council seats up…

The former car dealership on the southeast corner of Sepulveda and Washington Boulevard in Culver City will be remodeled and transformed into retail space, according to a representative of owner Continental Development Corporation. The company is in negotiations with Starbucks, Chase Bank, Chipotle,…

Retired City Councilman Scott Malsin filed his candidacy papers with the City Clerk this morning, and soon thereafter he officially announced his candidacy in the April 2012 Culver City Council campaign.

Here's what Malsin had to say:

"Throughout the last several weeks, I have spoken to hundreds of community members about Culver City's future. People are…

In the lastest issue of LA Weekly, food reviewer Jonathan Gold examines the "intersection of cuisine and big business" that is the food court at a mall…

In front of the Senior Center

on Culver Blvd.& Overland?

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 smiling face is? If you know, enter your response in the comments! I'll reveal the answer in two Fridays, when I post a new game.

Last time, I posted this swirl of color:…

The Culver 7 Theater Building is due to be demolished over the weekend, but according to a representative of the artist, Ed Massey's mural will be saved. The mural, entitled "Syncopation," will be taken down as early as Friday morning and will be moved to the Playa Vista campus of the Westside Neighborhood School. Our loss is Playa Vista's gain.

Here's some more views of Ed Massey's incredible mural, and be sure to…

Describing a feeling of "shock, marvel, delight and confusion" that Culver City's Museum of Jurassic Technology  regularly engenders, New York Times reporter Edward Rothstein spends some lines of his January 9 article describing the museum's many marvels (or perhaps "marvels:):

"I had never been in a museum where the persistent question…

One of the strange perks of living in Culver City -- as opposed to, say, Des Moines -- is that celebrities sometimes show up at the city's Cultural Affairs Commission meetings. Last night, for example, actor Tim Robbins appeared at the city's annual Cultural Affairs Town Hall to speak on behalf of the Actors' Gang Theatre, of which he is Artistic Director. 

Robbins…

Culver City's 7th Annual Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday, January 15, will include a staged reading of the award-winning play "The Dreamers," written and directed by Christina Harley (above). The play follows a poor African-American family in the south and begins the day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. 

The celebration --…

Japanese restaurant K-Zo topped Zagat's Top 5 List of Culver City restaurants, posted December 21, 2011

Number 1: K-Zo

At K-Zo, says the guide, "master chef Keizo orchestrates a divine experience of beautiful sushi and Japanese small plates with impeccable sauces."

Number 2:…

Improv for the People in Culver City is offering a free comedy improv class for first-timers. Classes are every monday night from 7:00 to 9:30, and the cost is normally $100 a month. 

Ray M. at Yelp recommends it:

This is such a great class to take…

Due to popular demand, The Actors' Gang Theatre in Culver City has extended its Atomic Holiday Free Fall show for two more days -- January 7 and 17 at 8 p.m. You can buy tickets on-line at here. Use the special discount code REPEAT to get tickets for only $20 (normall they're $35!). The Actors' Gang Theatre is…

Jam in the Van, which is described on this web site as "a mobile live music showcase" apparently had some transmission problems in West Culver City in December. The vehicle was gone a few days later, so hopefully Paul's Transmissions was able to get the Jam back on the road. 

I'm quite sure that's John Lennon…

("Head Above Heart" from Tim Bavington's show, opening this Saturday, January 7, at Mark Moore Gallery in Culver City)

Many of the galleries up and down Washington Blvd. and La Cienega Blvd. in the Culver City will celebrate new openings this Saturday, January 7, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.  As always, these openings are free and…