Clinging desperately to the left’s primary mantra – if you can’t be right at least be eye-catching – extreme leftist Robbie (I Believe in Changing History) Abcarian of the Los Angeles Times celebrated the death of Columbus Day last week with an essay comprised of her preferred diet, stale mental gruel. Instead of searching for a valid reason for flushing … Read More

Since the first six months of Marijuana Task Force meetings have been lightly attended, advocates are hoping for a  better turnout for this evening’s 7 o’clock Task Force meeting in Council Chambers. For the agenda and backup documents for the Marijuana Task Force meeting, including a revised draft commercial cannabis regulatory ordinance, see www.culvercity.org/marijuana. Projections remain shaky as to the … Read More

Second in a series Re “Clarke Sees White Supremacy as a Threat” After declaring that he sees white supremacy as a national threat, City Councilman Jim Clarke said he took a course in transcendental meditation “when I was much younger.” Everybody seemed to be into it in the ‘60s, including the Beatles, he recalled. “The Maharajah was our guru, and … Read More

One of the extraordinary personal comebacks in the 100-year history of Culver City is being essayed this week by Albert Vera. By the time of the City Council election in April, Mr. Vera doubtless will be favored to win one of the three open seats. In a way, it does not matter. He already has scored personal triumphs that would … Read More

Legendary Culver City businessman John Riordan – as quiet as he is profound – will observe his landmark 90th birthday on Saturday afternoon. Between 2 o’clock and 5 — and beyond — at the Masonic Lodge, 9631 Venice Blvd., next door to “my shop,” his plumbing business, Mr. Riordan will be surrounded by family from Indianapolis, friends and plumbing customers. … Read More

How ironic that on the same day the Los Angeles City Council flashed its odd sense of humor by creating (seriously?) Indigenous Peoples Day, my fiancé and I were having lunch with my farthest left friend. As a conversation opener, I asked him why he was a leftist? He felt threatened. His troubled, evasive, cutesy, avoidance-plagued non-answer eloquently described the … Read More

Serious Jews of Los Angeles have received a long-awaited pre-Shabbos gift. The insecure, egomaniacal, reputation-ruining, anti-religious editor of the Anti-Religious Jewish Journal is out. What took so long? A hard-bitten left-wing extremist who believed liberal politics should trump – excuse the rich term – Judaism, if the editor had any use for Yiddishkeit, he kept it well hidden. Religious families … Read More

First in a series Judging by the urgent flood of penetrating, diverse questions following a smart and cogent presentation on the very new state of cannabis yesterday morning, many Culver City residents are roaming in a dark space about the soon-to-be legal marijuana enterprise. Young Morgan Sokol of the seven-year-old Culver City cannabis business known as MedMen addressed a middle-aged … Read More

On the way out of Wednesday morning’s cannabis update for Chamber of Commerce members, community activist David Voncannon sent a message: Culver City residents w curious or concerned about marijuana legalization in California and in their hometown as of Jan. 1 need to attend community task force meetings, They should contact Jesse Mays, the assistant to Coty Manager John Nachbar … Read More