The dance troupe Donna Sternberg & Dancers will present The Flowering of Desire at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Culver City this Saturday, November 12, at 3:30. This site-specific performance will use the park landscape as a stage and will be accompanied by live music from composer…

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra will present its opening concert of the 2011-12 Season this Saturday, November 12, at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. Admission and parking are free. 

The concert will include:

Donizetti: Ah! Mes Ami, “The Daughter of the Regiment” (1840), featuring tenor Haqumai Sharpe…

If you want to lay your eyes upon "Going Nowhere Fast," the mural that British street artist D*Face painted on the side of Corey Helford Gallery, you better do it now. Construction is underway to erect a building in the empty lot beside the gallery, and the blocks are rising…

The City of Culver City will present Speak Easy, an evening of spoken word and live electronic music featuring performance art icon Rachel Rosenthal and performer/composer Amy Knoles, this Wednesday, November 9, at 8 p.m. The event will be held at the Culver Events Center, located at 11948 West Washington Boulevard.

The event is free, but you must call the…

by Broke Girl's Guide 

Drinks these days are so easy. Whatever happened to the good ol’ days when you had to sneak into a seedy basement somewhere and give a secret handshake in order to booze, like back in high school (or, say, the 1920s).

Well, …

Help clean up Ballona Creek with Ballona Creek Renaissance this Saturday from 9 to noon. Meet at the Centinela Avenue entrance to the Ballona Creek Bike Path, just west of Culver City.

Gloves, trash bags, water and some tools will be provided, but sunscreen, close-toed shoes, buckets, and grabbers, if…

Artist Chuck Close appeared at his opening at Blum & Poe Gallery in Culver City on Saturday, and he's quite the flashy dresser. His show, which will be up until December 22, features cracked portraits of the likes of Laurie Anderson and -- is that Paul Simon? There are also numerous self-portraits that mostly show him gazing somewhat doubtfully out of the…

Join Meetup.com to participate in runs and walks in Culver City on Wednesdays at 6 pm. The group currently has 67 members, and they've assembled for five get-togethers, including one upcoming on November 5.

On October 30, a group of 26 Meetup.com members also met for at 5.2-mile "Culver City…

Our son, now 18  has not trick or treated in many years but our memories are fond of taking him around in his costumes over the years.

We've seen the littlest, trick or treaters over the years, their first time.  So cute.  Kids and parents walking the steets of Culver Ctiy with goody bags filled with loots. 

 I do have one beef, Culver City does not have enough street lights.  Once it gets dark no more children come down our street because we don't have any…

Happy Halloween from the citizens of Culver City.…

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 is this famous face? 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 checker-board pattern.…

(an image from Siri Kaur's "Know Me for the First Time," at Blythe Projects Gallery in Culver City)

Nearly all of the galleries in the Culver City will celebrate new openings this Saturday, October 29, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.  As always, these openings are free and open to the public. 

All the galleries are within a couple of blocks of one another, so…

Neal Broverman at LA Observed Curbed LA reports that despite rumors, the Expo Line testing is continuing more or less on schedule. The line is expected to open to the La Cienega station…

Blum & Poe Gallery in Culver CIty will feature works by the great Chuck Close, beginning this Saturday, October 29. Featured will be new large-scale oil paintings of artists Kara Walker, Laurie Anderson, and Zhang Huan, works from Close's ongoing self-portrait series, and an intimately scaled portrait of musician Paul Simon. 

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Area children were invited to the Culver City Senior Center this Sunday from 1 to 4 to enjoy carnival games, a petting zoo, food & drinks, live entertainment, crafts, and more. 

This event was made possible by the Culver City Exchange Club, the Culver City Disability Advisory Committee, the Culver City Senior Citizens Association, and the Culver City…

Last week, S. Irene Virbila, the Los Angeles Times restaurant critic takes another look at L'Epicerie Market. She says that under new chef Sébastien Archambault, from southwest France, the place is beginning to find it's footing. Says…

Very exciting stuff.  First off I love going to City Hall.  I always get a rush.

After seeing all  4 presentatons offered at tonight's meeting .  I think the question is:   Do you want to be in or  do you want to be out.?

If you want to be in you can go with the Tolkin Group's Culver X.  Which the materials to be used is in keeping with what is already on the buildings currently downtown, which I like however you go "into" this property. 

 Or…

John Keaveney -- a Culver City man who founded New Directions, a home for homeless homeless and disabled veterans -- was among 13 Americans from across the country who received the Presidential Citizens Medal from President Obama in a ceremony at the White House last week.

New Directions -- located in the VA Hospital in Westwood, CA, has provided housing and…