The Culver City High School baseball team ran into a familiar foe last Tuesday at Palos Verdes High School in the CIF playoffs. Getting timely hits and scoring runs have caused problems all season for the Centaurs. In their 2-1 loss, they managed only four hits and left runners on base several times. The Centaurs played flawless defense and pitching … Read More
Bradbury Tribute – Three Years Later
Three years after his death, Ray Bradbury’s prose takes center stage in a Los Angeles theater reading opening on the anniversary of the author’s death. Ray Bradbury’s Pillar of Fire, a solo rendition of his novella of the same name by actor Bill Oberst Jr. presented as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival early next month. Previews at the Theatre of … Read More
New Traffic Patterns at the High School
New Traffic Control & Crosswalk Plans. Franklin to Garfield.
Working with the city of Culver City and the Police Dept., the School District is implementing new traffic patterns on Elenda Street in front of the Culver City High School/Middle School complex. “We know pick-up and drop-off times in this area can be busy and chaotic,” said Supt. Dave LaRose. “Our primary concern is student safety. We believe the new … Read More
Two of Three Incumbents Are Ousted
Dr. Ref Rodriguez, a winner
‘Twas a dreary election night for Los Angeles School Board incumbents and a loser also for the City Hall personality who figured to outpoll an ethnic political newcomer for the last seat on the Los Angeles City Council. Discernible patterns and rational reasoning were scarce. For example: Charter schools organizer Dr. Ref Rodriguez won neighborhoods east of downtown in spanking … Read More
Cooper Komatsu Going East for a Spell
Cooper Komatsu
Here is a reminder that the Scripps National Spelling Bee is next week, and my son, Cooper Komatsu will be participating. Cooper will be in Washington, D.C., representing Culver City Middle School and Los Angeles County. The Scripps Spelling Bee will be shown on ESPN. The televised days are one week from today, Wednesday, May 27, the preliminaries, and the … Read More
New Price for Los Angeles: $15/Hour
A victory for marchers, hiking the minimum wage. Photo: CNNMoney
Yesterday was a great day for Los Angeles. After nearly eight months of deliberation, that included seven hearings, three studies, a peer review, and more than 600 personal testimonials, the Los Angeles City Council has approved the drafting of a city-wide minimum wage policy that will help lift thousands of hardworking men and women out of poverty. The road here … Read More
And Then There Were Two
This was the size if not the face of last night’s crowd. Photo: CNN
The sigh of almost incomprehensible relief, underpinned by flashes of chest-beating, that volleyed across the community this morning formed an unmistakable sign that City Hall’s annual budget hearings had reached a successful conclusion, or at least had finished. Across a hefty 6½ hours, mainly of departmental testimony, fiscal and conceptual plans were laid out in sometimes complex detail for the … Read More
Deciphering Culver City Common Core — Positively
The education reform known as Common Core, which decides what every student should know and be able to do by each grade, remains a stubbornly gray eminence this morning, seven years after Common Core standards evolved as a nationally uniform concept. “Common” and “Core” are fighting words in some school districts – 70 percent of students at a Calabasas school … Read More
Dems Don Warpaint, Go on Warpath Against Squaw Sanchez
At least Ms. Sanchez still is breathing. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon / The Times
While there are 105 million reasons Georgie Porgie Stephanopoulos will be taintedly retained by besmirched ABC – his contract – there also may be 105 million reasons U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez will lose her nascent race with Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris to succeed one of the U.S. Senate’s most odious shrimp cocktails, Barbie Boxer, who resembles a boxer more than … Read More
Word Painting
Photo: Eric Leplan / pixabay.com
Some words are heavy, some have wings Some make you think of many things Some can help your mind to soar Others dash you to the floor. Words with syllables and letters Can often keep your mind in fetters “Which word fits here? Is this one right?” It can become a mental fight. Bound by rules and strictest … Read More