This video, from SmileTV, shows volunteers and tech professionals helping senior citizens with iphones, computers, ipads and more at Culver City Senior Center in Culver City. People helping people.

Culver City is home to more than 30 art galleries, but the art also spills into the street -- especially in and around the Art District. As I've observed several times …

In the comments section of the recent post about the Tattle Tale room, Culver City Times member…

In “Unseen,” his latest show at the Corey Helford Galley, street artist HUSH presents a series of figures that embody contradictions of ancient and modern, figurative and abstract, power and powerlessness. The paintings are gorgeous and complex, and the show only runs until June 15, so get over…

The actor is Tom Gurnee, but the real star of the new one-minute, national TV ad for Fidelity Life Insurance is downtown Culver CIty. In the commercial, a man walks distractedly out of Tender Greens (I believe):…

Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop is celebrating its 37^th birthday by offering its most famous sandwich, The Bobbie, made with in-house roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, homemade stuffing and a touch of mayo, for $1 on Thursday, June 13…

One of Australia’s most famous street artist, Stormie Mills, recently painted one of his typically melancholic figures on the Branded Arts Building at National and Washington Blvds in Culver CIty. Mills' work has appeared on the streets and gallery walls throughout the world, and this little guy is…

Every other week, I post a picture of something in Culver City that is 'hiding in plain sight.' This week we're celebrating two firsts for the game.

1) For the first time, the game will simultaneously appear in the Culver CIty News. If that's why you're here for the first time,…

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 patriotic geometry is? …

The front window of L'Epicerie French market and cafe in downtown Culver City is papered over, and a sign indicates that the restaurant is closed for renovations. But Eater LA points…

This year, Culver CIty's Fiesta La Ballona has been scheduled from August 23 - 25. As always, it will take place at Veterans Memorial Park and will feature loads of carnival rides, live music, food vendors, and a Beer and Wine Garden (sponsored by local heros, the Exchange Club of Culver City). …

Last Thursday, the Los Angeles Times ran a special section devoted to restaurant maven Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles. Ever the iconoclast, Gold called out at least two…

There are only three performances left to see the play that LA Weekly selected as a Pick of the Week and called "haunting" and "fraught with eerie melancholy": the Actors' Gang's one-man adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The show closes this Saturday,…

Does the image of a teapot above, from a J.C. Penny billboard right off the 405 in Culver City, look like Hitler. Well...yeah, it kind of does. Kind of a gag, but no big deal. Still it's just the kind of story that everyone loves to write about. A story about the nazi-saluting kettle popped up…

Northern California-based artist Kim Squaglia's first solo exhibition at the George Billis Gallery opens this Saturday, June 1, and runs through July 6. The opening reception - which is, as always, is free and open to the public - is Saturday, June 1, from 5 pm to 8 pm.

Here's what George…

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 patriotic geometry is? If you know, enter your response in the comments box of this post! I'll reveal the answer in two…

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 cosmic dog is? …

These are the new and old sounds coming from my corner of Culver City. What have you been listening to?

Parquet Courts - Borrowed Time

This song by Parquet Courts is sturdily constructed with angular but melodic guitar lines and a chanted chorus that fishhooks into the reptile brain. At two and a half minutes it's an epic for the band. Most songs on their newest album, Light Up Gold, are perhaps half as long, earning Parquet Courts a…

In March, I reported that the Annenberg Foundation has proposed to build a $50 million interpretive center and make other improvements in Area C of the Ballona…

The J. Paul Getty Museum is currently offering an exhibition of the photography of Culver City resident Ed Ruscha, including the images from some of the 16 photo books Ruscha produced between 1963 and 1978, including Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), Some Los Angeles…